Back in the day when Blossom was a popular TV show, people used to tell me that I "reminded" them of Blossom. I never watched the show, but I'm guessing it was the nose. But maybe there is more to the story..... In a recent interview, Mayim said something I wholeheartedly agree with:
I'm writing a book about this style of parenting that we do, which I think is a big part of what my life is really about. I have a 5 year-old and a 2 year-old, and that is my most important job. I have a husband who is home with our kids when I'm not, and that's really how we're able to do this. We choose not to use nannies or babysitters, not because we think we're better than anyone else, but it's just a personal decision that we want to be the caregivers for our kids. So we're making it work that way, because that's what we feel is best for our children, and everything else fits in around that. To us, nothing is more important than being with our children at any given point of the day.
The honest answer of "how I do it all," is that I don't sleep as much as I should, I work at night when my boys are sleeping, I'm one of those people who are just always doing a lot of things. I multi-task a lot. I try and slow down when I need to, but I don't really have a lot of down time. We don't go out socially, me and my husband. I'm not able to keep up a lot of my friendships the way I used to, but that also allows me more time to do the things I need to do at home, and to write and things like that.
So life is simple. That's one of our secrets. We don't spend a lot of money. We don't go on extravagant vacations. We keep our life really simple, and that allows us to make the time to bake two loaves of bread (like this morning) at 6:00 am. with two children at my feet {laughs}.
We do use babysitters from time to time, and Emma certainly helped me quite a bit during that last month of pregnancy and the first few weeks with Milla, but I think Mayim is on to something. Oh, and the book is coming too. I can almost taste it on the horizon....
