Wow...it has really been awhile since I have written. I really have never been good at being consistent with things like this but I have decided that it is important that I do so. In order to be consistent I am going to update my blog every Tuesday...Tuesday? Why Tuesday? Well, because Jer works early on Tuesday and because it's just going to be my blog day.

It's quiet here in my home today. Zoe is sleeping and I am still in my PJ's. I really try to get dressed for my day before now but today I am still in my PJ's. I've got to get out of them by noon...it's just not right to be in your PJ's past noon, not unless you're on vacation or something.

I am reading a really good book right now. It's good because it's where I am in life. It's called Professionalizing Motherhood. It really makes me think about what I am doing. Staying home with Zoe is so important but really it is pretty amazing how downplayed this role is. A lot of thoughts come to me, thoughts like "aren't you bored," or "I bet you can't wait to get back into teaching," or "don't you need to be out making money" or "what do you do all day?" At the beginning of the book it really attacks this kind of thinking by saying that we really have to shift how we think about staying home with our children. This book makes me think. Listen to this quote...
"We keep hearing the questions asked, "What is happening to the children of today? Why do we have such violence? Why are the children killing