Thoughts on Being a Working Mother

1. Sleep, when massively disrupted, is actually quite deep and refreshing. I feel like hell at 2:30 in the morning when I'm trying to remain conscious enough to hold a bottle upright. But in the morning I'm almost disconcertingly okay. Maybe I didn't need those 7 uninterrupted hours after all. Imagine what I could have been doing all those years.2. When I know I only have one hour to write, that hour is way more productive than the three or four I used to rely on. My wordcount has yet to suffer, though my time at the laptop is very much curtailed.3. A baby makes one's priorities oh so crystal clear. Her needs are immediate and nonnegotiable. Somehow, rather than complicating life, this makes it simpler.4. My word, can babies eat!She's gained 2 pounds in just over 2 weeks. That's a quarter of her total body weight! Imagine if you did that.5. Doing this without an equal partner is inconceivable to me. Forget about single parenthood, I don't even get how full time stay-at-home mothers do it without an extra body. Woofy and I are tag-teaming this whole project. In fact, it takes two of us to handle a really complicated diaper. We've got a whole haz-mat sink wash-up scenario choreographed. It's quite elegant actually, and Addie loves it. But lord knows what I'm going to do when he's away on business in two weeks.