In case you weren't already aware, today is Friday. That is, the day after Thursday and the day before Saturday. You know, the one day of the week that the majority of the American workforce is living for? 

I don't live for that day anymore.

I work two days a week. Two. Two long, exhausting, ridiculously coffee-filled 10 hour days. On those days, I am a patient services rep at a specialty pharmacy. Whoopie. But the other five days of the week, those are the days that I look forward to. It's not because I get to sleep in or because I get to lunch with my friends and be lazy indulgent. It's because those are the days that I get to spend at home with my son, talking about world events and important things, like whether giraffes are better than lions. We read a lot - Archer and I are currently reading our way through Roald Dahl's books, while he and daddy are reading their way through Harry Potter. Soon, we'll read Tolkein. I make silly faces and sing songs and inevitably end up with some amount of spit up, drool, or Similac formula on my shirt or pants or some combination of the two. When Archer naps, I pick up the house, plan the week's dinner menu, chat online with my mom friends, and make baby food.

My life now is such a departure from where I thought I would be at 25. I was going to conquer the world. I was going to bake my way through the baking section at Borders. I was going to become Somebody. Now? I'm going to be lucky if I can conquer the weight gain from my pregnancy. I'll more than likely just cook my way through a few baby food cookbooks. And I already am Somebody...I'm Archer's Somebody and that? That's better than anything I could have ever asked for.

I get to go play with that little boy today, but expect to see a few recipes posted over the weekend.

The time has come...

...the Lestlie said, to...start...blogging...again?

The first blog post is always the hardest. It's the worst post ever on every blog! Why? There's all this pressure to be awesome from the get-go, isn't there?

I guess I can settle for mediocre.

Here I sit, a completely different person than I was when I started my first blog at 17, a blog that netted 150 page views a day. I know that's not much in this world of blog craziness, but back then, for someone who was mostly blogging about nothing, 150 page views was a big deal. I met quite a few people, people that I still talk to, and no blogging venture since then has been as successful or as rewarding.

Well. This time, ladies and gents, I've got something to talk about. I have my 4 month old son, Archer (aka McStinky), who is my current favorite topic of conversation. I have food, particularly baby food, which is sort of my new passion. And I have other things, surely. I can't talk about work because of the social networking policy (even though that would provide fodder for many anger and frustration fueled posts, I'm sure), but that's probably for the best. I work two days a week and try to keep all work-related talk to those two days only. Why let my job get in the way of my 5 day weekends?

I've got big things in the works. Big things...and maybe some small things, too. Read on if you want, pass on by if you don't.

Until then...

This is only a test

The baby is napping, so I'm using this time to setup a blog for the families and baby food mama's.