A Mother By Any Other Name...

would still work her ass off! Being a mom is tough, and I don't care where she spends a majority of her time-inside or outside the home. Mother = WORK. And one of these days I'll opine about the differences of mothers who work inside the home versus mothers who work outside the home. For now, I'll briefly explain what I call being a half 'n half mom.

See, I work outside the home. However, I teach therefore I have all holidays and summers off to work inside the home. I wrapped up Summer 2013 this past weekend. We all survived, and as always, my older son's behavior fell apart the last week because he, too, was ready to return to daycare and his regularly scheduled life. Apparently, 8 weeks home with mom is enough because he ran from me today to play with his friends. The 1-year-old gladly clung to the arms of his caretaker in the infant room without a second thought of where I was or when I'd be back. Not that we didn't have a blast together, but we the three of us are social creatures who need to be around lots of other people. Ha ha!

So I offer an album of the many adventures that were had over our 8 weeks at home. I'm sure there are some things I could still add, but 100ish pics seemed like more than enough.