I am a 30-something mother of two -- Son, nearly four, and Daughter, 1.5 yrs old. I am a literature professor who is lucky enough to be on campus three-days a week and home with the kids two days a week. Sometimes those two days seem like the very very best parts of my week. Other times, they seem to last a whole week each. I admire any full-time-at-home momma who doesn't go nuts from the "hilarious" repetition of the word "butt" and the incessant requests to draw Spiderman.

In my alternative visions of my life (not that this version isn't great, mind you), I am one of the following:
- an Olympic ice-skater
- an architect who never has to do boring technical drawings but just gets to design fabulous things all the time
- a fabulously successful actress who is actually taken seriously and who looks really great in cranberry-colored silk charmeuse

I started blogging because I wanted some more regular connection to new ideas and grownups who could help keep me balanced on my this-day-has-lasted-at-least-a-week-and-it's-not-even-naptime-yet days. You can find me posting daily at http://mommysmartini.blogspot.com My sisters post there too, and between us all we use the site to keep the mommy life as sane as possible.