Time Out with T

Teresa is a 30-something working mother of a three-year-old girl named Tali. She works for a prominent media company in the city of Toronto and lives in the Lakeshore Village Community in south Etobicoke. She’s been married for nearly five years and just became the proud mother of two. Through her blog she will explore the trials and tribulations of the every-day working mom, wife, employee, sister, cousin, friend and SLAVE! ; )

Guess what? I just joined the gym. I won't say which one 'cause I don't want to give a big chain even more promotion. But I will not hesitate to name them later when it comes time to cancel my membership when I go back to work (my work has a gym) and they keep charging my credit card as I've heard they've done many times to many people. Anyhow, I joined to get back in shape (funny 'cause I wasn't in much 'shape' before I was pregnant anyway)...

My five year old told me that I looked pregnant yesterday. I said, “NO!” and inside I felt like crying, because of all of my struggles with weight loss – or better put, my lack of weight loss.  Outside I laughed and told him he was being silly. He was really cute. About an hour later we were getting ready for bed and I told my husband that Andreas had told me that I looked pregnant. We shared a laugh. Andreas then proceeded to...

Once upon a time, I loved road trips... Windows down with music blasting, getting there was truly half the fun! After the birth of my daughter, open windows might mean a draft and instead of Mötley Crue blasting, it was yells of displeasure from a very cute but car-seat-hating baby girl. Eventually, she’d succumb to her fate of remaining buckled, but we have several hundred photos of her “stink eye” - the name we lovingly gave the...

Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural. —A course in miracles One of the most common issues I hear from fellow Moms has to do with guilt: “I went out for a little ‘me’ time and felt guilty the whole time I was out;” “I lost it on my kids and felt guilty for days;” “I just don’t know how to not feel guilty.” Sound familiar?! We’ve all, “been there, done that” and many of us still, “go there, do that” …...

So I'm home alone with the two girls as my husband is out working in London, ON for a few days. And as I say to my friend "My worst fear is that one of them gets sick or I get sick" and sure enough, that very night, my oldest wakes up in the middle of the night and has a fever. My thermometer wasn't working so I had no idea how bad (but she was saying things like "Mom, the house is moving!" and "Mom, how come you have two heads?"). And as...

Some of my readers/followers know I’m in the midst of planning M’s 2nd birthday party. Let me tell you it’s now gotten waaay out of control and I need to reel it back in. I was approached by a party planner and a photographer who both wanted reviews so I figured, why not have them take some of the stress off me? Because I get crazy stressed out. I worry about anything from the guest list and wondering if people would want to come, to...

I’ve recently shared my struggles with my son in the mornings. I have an update for you. What I know about me I’m still not a morning person. My solution I set my alarm to go off at 6:45am instead of 7:15am – this way I still get to hit the snooze button twice and I’m up 30 minutes earlier. (Crazy I know – but it seems to work) What I know about my son This little guy - who has trouble sleeping – hates waking up...

Well…what an end to 2010. Both my husband and I were on vacation, which should be a happy, relaxing time. Um YA-RIGHT! We were all sick... I had the ear-nose-throat thing that was going around, and the hubby and little miss had the stomach bug (yummy). Literally every single day we had off right up to the 3rd of January was a write off and consisted of PJ’s, keeping hydrated and making sure the Kleenex was stocked up. Christmas day was...

I’m so not a morning person. I hate waking up to an alarm clock. It’s the worst sound ever. My current ‘situation’ (not referring to my abs) is that I generally go to bed without a child next to me. We have eventful nights (musical beds, toilet trips, crying, tantrums, nightmares, etc.) and about 98.9% of the time I wake up sandwiched between both kids, and my husband is always on the edge. Teetering. Every morning, I hit snooze at...

My house is kind of like Mary Poppins’ purse. Or a black hole. I have to admit that we have a lot of ‘stuff’. Lots of toys, clothes, shoes, books, DVDs and so much more. As my husband says, “it’s all rubbish” AND just to add to all of my stuff, whenever people come over, they tend to leave their stuff here too. All the time. I should have a “lost and found” bin. BUT even with all of this ‘stuff’ I always manage to know...

Okay so this blog is not going to be about not having the urge, or my husband being scared to 'go there' or not being ready, etc. Both Pete and I were counting down the days to my 6-week check-up to make sure I had the 'all-clear' to have sex again (it was moreso Pete and the countdown but I was looking forward to it as well). This time with baby #2 though, it's been quite different. Where do people find the time??? I'm always tired. Plus,...