New Gig – Parenting Column
For anyone who is still over here who doesn’t go through my facebook updates, I’m excited to announce that starting this week, I will be writing a parenting column for the Fridley Patch — a hyperlocal AOL news blog. I’ll be writing about the community, children’s activities, saving money, cooking and family life.
Yesterday was my first column, which you can find here. And a little excerpt is below:
Two Kids, No Sleep: Taking Comfort in the Smallest Victories 
A work-at-home mom does two jobs simultaneously—and neither includes a lunch break.
The happiest day of 2010 for me was the day that our new son was born.
The happiest day of 2011? The day he finally slept all night without somebody having to hold him.
It never occurred to me that the littlest things, like actually sleeping in the same bed at the same time for the first time in more than six weeks, would become such huge victories. But life has completely changed after having our second child, and in ways we never really expected.
No one tells you that two kids isn’t really twice the work, that it somehow magnifies by a power of 10 or 20. That naps are never going to mesh correctly, and one child is almost always awake at any given moment. There is no hand-off or quiet moment. One kid will always be screaming, just as surely as you can guarantee that anytime a pacifier pops out of a baby’s mouth it will roll directly underneath the couch…
(Read the rest here)
