About SMM
Self-Made Mom is a blog about a Chicago mom who left her well-paid, flexible job to stay at home full time. She thinks cleaning up food off the floor three times a day will be much less stressful than attending a client meeting with spit up all over her new suit. Oh, how much she has to learn.
Yes, this is me. Where the grass is always greener and the most important decision I’ll make all day is what kind of shoes to wear to the playground. It’s important to look nice at the playground.
I’m trying to make myself the best mom, wife, friend, person I can be with all the resources my husband will allow me in the world at my disposal. No one said leaving the workforce would actually save me money.
I live in the city of Chicago with my eloquent, rational and terribly neurotic lawyer-husband who put the proverbial kibosh on me posting photos, videos, cartoons, ANYTHING that looks remotely like my son on this blog. So if voyeurism’s your thing, well, go Google and prosper. He now pays the bills, so I’d better listen to him.
I used to work at a big PR firm counseling clients on how to create effective communications for their employees. Now, I’ll have to make do with trying to communicate to a pre-schooler and baby that it’s not cool to wipe blueberry-stained hands all over mommy’s Berber White walls.
I try to keep my brain working by writing for Chicago Parent. But only at nap time.
Through this blog I’ll try to adjust to my life as a corporate hack turned professional butt wiper. Welcome to the “new” me.
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Very nice to meet you!
I got your link out of the Mom Agenda!
You sound awesome and I wish I could be at the See Mom Run book reading tonight! Somebody told me too keep the lights low in the living room so people wont’ see all the dirt on the floor. The truth is, you may not see it, but you definitely feel every crunch of a cheerio or slip on some spilled juice or even skid on some banana remains. Here is to another day in the life of moms everywhere that left the corporate world to stay at home. It’s a messy job, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything!
Best,
Esti B.
Our stories sound SO alike! And I happen to be writing a book on this topic. Stop by and check it out…
http://thewriterrevived.blogspot.com/p/about-book.html
Glad to you have found you through Twitter!
So glad I found your blog today. I just left lunch with a dear friend where the conversation circled around and around about work/life balance. We both left corporate two years ago to pursue other dreams, and both find ourselves back in cubeville for a lot of different reasons. While it’s great to have a job when you need one, the quest to find more time with family plus a job we can feel great about is on! I can’t wait to send her, and my other friends, your URL. I really like the tone of your posts and spirit of what you’re trying to do.
- Phaedra
Pleasure to meet you SMM. I also left my full-time nursing job almost three years ago to stay home with my two boys. It was the BEST decision of my life and that of my boys! I’ve been able to do so many wonderful things, experience new adventures and create ever lasting memories with the two most important little people in my life. I know for a fact that I wouldn’t be able to do all these wonderful things if I was still working full time. By the way, I am also the biggest FAN of Chicago Parent magazine. Enjoy the ride, I know I have! =)