An SOS

Two years in and I'm still getting used to being a stay-at-home mom. 

Whenever I'm filling out paperwork and it asks about my occupation, I'm never sure what to write. 

 Should I mention my education? The degrees in molecular biology, the teaching license I haven't used yet? Does tutoring a few nights a week count as a job?  Should I write, "chases Max around all day" ? That's probably the most accurate answer. 

I always hesitate with the label because when I imagine a stay-at-home mom I think of someone who excels at running a household, someone who has dinner ready and waiting on the table when the husband arrives home...and that's just not me (yet!). 

For example, this week. I didn't want to be home at all. We are on day 3 of a home organization challenge and so far all it has resulted in is more chaos around the house. I busied myself this week by coming up with all sorts of things to do to avoid the tasks set forth by said challenge.

On Monday, our friends came over and we made baby food. On Tuesday, I sent out an SOS, I called some friends and said, " I am loading the boys in the car and we are going SOMEWHERE. Join us?" Well, somewhere ended up being Nicole's house, and we came bearing Panera. 

We did spend Wednesday at home, but it was raining outside. And we spent the day cuddling and eating soup, because who can participate in a home organization challenge on a rainy day? 

We also busted out the matching pajamas :) 

I almost cropped this picture a little closer. But something about it just struck my heart, with hope that there are more babies to come, more siblings in matching pajamas. So I left a little room for siblings in this picture.

Hello my love. Sitting up like a big boy <3

We spent Thursday at the mall, again with our friends, not so much for shopping but more for company and conversation. 

And now, here we are on Friday. We took a trip to the park. We tried to teach Max some yoga poses and laughed about it. 

There is nowhere left to hide (except blogging, of course), it's time to face day 3 of the challenge and due to my slacking we also get to do days 4-10 this weekend as well :)

Except, this book just arrived. 

And I really want to read it.

I'll get this staying-at-home thing figured out one of these days.