High Maintenance Mom

I was recently introduced to a wonderful new online stationary store just in time for my 2nd baby's birth announcements to be created. Link to the site via the Scoop & Skinny logo we posted on the left side of our home page for a special offer for highmaintenancemom.com readers. Scoop & Skinny is a greeting card and stationery company specializing in everyday and special occasion greeting cards, premium stationery and exclusive invitations and announcements.

Happy Thanksgiving. Our plans for this year do not involve travel, which is relaxing. We will go to the zoo in the morning and then watch tv, play outside, and eat for the rest of the day. I'm hoping the kids will enjoy part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - it's the parade's 80th anniversary...

I am very excited about Mother's Day this year. Mainly because it will be my first Mother's Day as a Mom but also because I think I deserve it. Ok, I know that sounds a bit high maintenance....well, at least I found the right web site! My husband is the most wonderful man (aside from my father who passed away 2 years ago) in the world but he travels so much that sometimes I feel like a single Mom. I have new respect for single Mom's.

There were very few women in my science doctoral programs who had any household knowledge that couldn't be learned in a chemistry book. So one of the shocks for myself and my husband is my current need to have a more presentable house. It's as if one year a biologic clock went off that said I needed to have kids and a few years later another clock went off that told me to clean the house and learn something about cooking.