Self-Made Mom

Mom seeks to find balance and Zen by leaving her well-paid, flexible job to stay at home full time.  She thinks cleaning up food off the floor three times a day will be much less stressful than attending a client meeting with spit up all over her new suit.

Yes, this is me.  Where the grass is always greener and the most important decision I’ll make all day is what kind of shoes to wear to the playground.

I’m trying to make myself the best mom, wife, friend, person I can be with all the resources my husband will allow me in the world at my disposal. No one said leaving the workforce would actually save me money.

I live in the city of Chicago with my eloquent, rational and terribly neurotic lawyer-husband who put the proverbial kibosh on me posting photos, videos, cartoons, ANYTHING that looks remotely like my son on this blog. So if voyeurism’s your thing, well, go Google and prosper. He now pays the bills, so I’d better listen to him.

I used to work at a big PR firm counseling clients on how to create effective communications for their employees. Now, I’ll have to make do with trying to communicate to a toddler that it’s not cool to wipe blueberry-stained hands all over mommy’s off-white walls.

Through this blog I’ll try to adjust to my life as a corporate hack turned professional butt wiper. Welcome to the “new” me.