I'm in my 30s, a wife and mother of two spectacular daughters, working full-time. Like many other women out there, I am attempting to do the juggling thing.
In the past few years my life has gone from somewhat dull to completely full and exhausting (but in a good way). I got married in 1999, bought a house in 2000, bought three rental properties in 2002, had a baby girl and started grad school in 2003, bought property and built houses on it and sold them in 2005, moved to a new house in 2005, finished grad school in 2006, and had another baby girl in 2007, all the while being employed full-time. In September 2007 I left the job I'd had for almost six years and found a new one that puts me much closer to a career track. The sacrifice is longer hours and more complicated pickups and dropoffs for the girls. Somehow I turned into someone who is always doing a million things all the time. This blog is my way of making sense of all the chaos!! Or at least pretending to. (Oops, I ended that sentence with a preposition. Bad English major.)
The title also reflects the fact that I still have to remind myself pretty frequently that I'm a grown-up and I'm doing all these things. I often feel like a 12-year-old running around in adult's body trying to "play house" and wondering whether I'm succeeding. (I am in my thirties though, so I guess I better figure out how to be a grown-up now.)
Reading, listening to music, traveling, enjoying really good food and wine, baking, photography
