Two hundred hours–that’s a busy month for some of you; a slow month for others. To maintain some semblance of privacy, I will leave ambiguous the number of days it took me to hit this threshold. I will also let you all decide whether defining life milestones in billable hours is a healthy practice. So…
Category: Child Care
How I’m Feeling on the Eve of My Return to Work
“I’m in the hospital and will be offline for the coming weeks. My water broke this morning (two months early). The doctors are monitoring me and trying to figure out if the baby wants to come out.” It feels like a lifetime ago when I sent this abrupt out-of-office message from the triage room of…
8 Pieces of Parenting Advice I Would Tell a Five-Months-Younger Me
A friend recently asked me if I had any advice to share with her friend who is pregnant and expecting her first child. I thought about what I would tell five-months-younger me. Here is what I came up with. 1. Take all the help you can get. Friends or family members offer to drop off…
A Day in the Life of Billable Baby
Before I had a baby, I was obsessed with “a day in the life of a newborn” videos and articles because I was curious about what new parents did all day. Now that I’m approximately three months (!!) into this parenting thing, I thought I would share a snippet of my day with Billable Baby…