Annnnnd I’m back…sort of

Has it really been so long since I’ve written a blog post? I’ve been back in the paid workforce for about a month now and it’s put a crimp in my internet activities. There are so many blog posts I’ve written in my head, and even drafted by hand on a notepad. Yet, I can’t seem to transfer those thoughts to the actual blog. So here, in list form are some of the things I ought to blog about and probably will in the near future:

• Finding daycare when your parenting style isn’t quite mainstream
• Pumping again when you haven’t done it regularly in a year
• Yes, it’s okay to nurse your toddler…really
• How I realized that my workplace is institutionally sexist (and cis-sexist) despite their commitment to “diversity”
• Toddlers, solids, development and mother blame
• Finding time for me
• My baby’s turning two!!!
• Passing on my cultural heritage to my child
• The zombie apocalypse

I can’t promise that I’ll write about all of these. I can’t even promise that what I write will be any good. But I gotta write, dagnabbit! And so I will.

Unemployment, it sucks…really

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Since 2007 I’ve faced unemployment three different times, each period longer than the previous stretch. I can honestly say that the reasons have nothing to do with how good of an employee I was. The first time had to do with me moving to a new city. The second time was because my grant-funded position at a non-profit was eliminated due the agency losing that grant. The third time, well, let’s just say that if I had been eligible to appeal my wrongful termination, I would have won.

Oh, oh, oh, oh stayin’ at home

I have inadvertently become a stay at home mom. This was unexpected, to say the least. Funnily enough, it is something I kind of wished for but didn’t think we had the financial resources to pull off. We still don’t.