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Nadine Silverthorne’s love of journaling began in Grade One with the entry, “I am the greatest dancer!” Two babies (and countless diaper changes) later, she has found her home away from home as editor of SweetMama. Don’t miss her humorous bi-weekly accounts of the joys and pains of working while raising them fabulous.

SAHM I am - not

canada (Jan.05.09)    


After two weeks of playing Stay-at-Home-Mom (SAHM as we bloggers like to call it), I am thrilled to be headed back to work Monday morning. I'm not going to sugar coat it. After two weeks of yogurt-stained yoga pants, subsisting on toast crusts and apple peels, and only wearing makeup on stat holidays, I'll be in pretty clothes, drinking a scalding hot drink and feeling fabulous.

I did have a few pangs of sadness as I prepared Monday's lunch. (A point there for being home. I'm usually not so prepared and habitually buy my lunch.) The house has definitely run better with me home and taking charge as a domestic diva should. Lucy's sleeplessness issues were resolved (with the help of the incredible Sleep Doula), though we're still ironing out a kink or two. The holidays felt less stressful, the house didn't look like robbers had been there by the time the cleaning ladies arrived, and everyone was humming a merry tune.

This past Friday I felt I had things so under control that I dared to utter the words, "I wish I didn't have to go to work Monday. I'm having so much fun with you guys!" Then all kinds of bizarro went on (including police and fire departments being called for two separate incidences -- no one was hurt) and by Saturday I was begging to run to the drug store to buy deoderant so I could be by myself for 20 minutes.

I usually downplay my skills as a mother, mostly because I don't really believe I'm any good at it. But these past two weeks showed me that I'm actually rather awesome at morphing into June Cleaver. I did love (almost) every second I spent with my kids, but that's just it -- I'm completely spent. I just don't know how SAHMs do it! All. The. TIme. (They really deserve a medal and a pay increase.) The four of us couped up indoors, with everyone depending on me to run the ship, well it drove me a little batty.

So I head to the office to recalibrate for a few hours. Safely esconced amidst 20-something lovelies, chattering about gossip blogs and best Boxing Day purchases, I can be "just a woman." For a third of my day no one will need anything more than some copy or a reply to an email; nothing more will hang off me than a necklace and a Marc Jacobs handbag.

And it makes coming home to pudgy, needy hands that much sweeter.


Tags:  nadine silverthorne, mom blog, mom blogs, stay at home moms, sahm, mommy blog, mommy blogs, moms who work, motherhood, sweetmama blog, mothers who like to work



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