mellehman : MyBlogHer Profile

If I knew where to begin, I likely wouldn't be blogging.

I am simultaneoulsy the Reluctantly Working Mom and the Inept Working Mom.  I like my job.  I like being a mom (better).  Some women manage career and motherhood with aplomb.  I am decidedly not one of them.  (And I'm pregnant with a second child, so let the madness begin!)

So I'm reluctantly working because I'm inept at the work-mommy balance thing - but the desire to eat and to live indoors keeps me on my employers payroll....

I'm a scanner - I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I'm kinda scattered but learning to live with it.  I never intended to be a writer of any sort, but I've always been a grammar snob - something I share with my brother, thanks to our mom.  So I guess I also because an accidental writer through my insistence on correcting others' writing and/or insisting upon doing it myself so that I wouldn't have to.  (I SAID snob.)

I'd like to work for myself, writing and editing.  So I started a blog 1) for writing practice, 2) to help me cope with my ineptitude with working and mommying.  I write about my work-home challenges and - currently - my challenges with my second, high-maintenance pregnancy.