I would normally describe myself as a Work-At-Home Mom -- I'm a proud WAHM, and have been for nearly 13 years. A couple of years ago, on the fabulously-funny, but sadly under-appreciated HBO series ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Jason Bateman (the brother trying to keep his formerly-wealthy, highly-dysfunctional family going after a dramatic financial downturn) referred to Portia de Rossi (his unemployed, pampered-princess sister) as a Stay-In-Bed Mom, which has stuck in the popular lexicon of our family.
Who wouldn't want to be a Stay-In-Bed Mom? Even my husband appreciates the concept, although I think we have very different expectations of what, exactly, a Stay-In-Bed Mom does in the bed. I work -- well, again, that could be taken two ways, which is why I have stayed away from the Stay-In-Bed-WORKING Mom. That just doesn't sound right.
Closer to my reality of staying in bed (not literally, usually -- in fact, the bed is already made for today), but still being able to work -- to read in comfort and write propped up with the laptop computer -- is the very-talented Marian Keyes's non-fiction: Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities
. (Duvet, you know, is Marian's Irish for quilt, comforter or bedspread!) If she can do it...This is all to say, the last six weeks have been insanely-busy:
- With the ongoing, weekly Middle School Book Group on Mondays;
- The GRE & grad school application process;
- The homework coordination & supervision of 7th, 5th & 2nd graders in the house;
- Turning 40, which took more than a week (the 'octave' of the birthday, you know);
- Halloween!!
- The 17th Annual Writer's Workshop; and
- Midtown Book Group Event w/Special Guest Author David Fulmer.
(I will be getting to more about that in Rebel Reviews.)
It's 10:00am now, I'm thinking I'm safe...