Workiversary

This week marked my first year anniversary at the new job. When I received my "Happy Anniversary" email from the boss, I immediately replied to say that a great anniversary gift would be helping me with the paperwork required to telework- aka- work from home 4 days a week. Rules are that you have to be in your position for a year before you can take advantage of this perk, so you better believe I've been counting down the days like a kid waiting on their birthday (or an adult that still might do that...).

Here I am a few days later sitting in the home office/guest room and adjusting to the new work environment. I can't even tell you how happy I am to get 8+ hours of my week back that used to be spent sitting in the car. I also can't tell you how happy my Visa is that I don't have an excuse to go shopping on my lunch break anymore. My buddies at Marshall's and Starbucks are probably going to get concerned, but I'll break the news gently next week. ;)

One huge perk to not having to be in the office is that I can wear yoga pants and other various workout gear around all day. I can also sit Indian-style in my desk chair at home and burp out loud. I no longer have to share a single bathroom with the rest of the females in the office and if I need to take 5 to make a personal call without putting my business on display for everyone else, I can do that too. Awkward "water cooler" talk is down to a minimum...except for when I have to let my new "co-workers" (Molly and Major) out to the potty. ;) Life is good.

I've already gotten a couple of quick morning runs in after dropping the Miss off at daycare and I've spent the extra hour of my evening trying to get back into actually cooking us real food for dinner and playing outside! Want photographic proof? Too bad! Here it is:




So there ya have it. Not quite work at home mom status yet, but we're getting closer. In the future, as Grace gets older, I may have the ability to do more with her at home, but for now the extra time is a great start and I think she appreciates it as well!

Hope you all have awesome weekends. We're going to love on our daddy and play-play-play! I'll work on Sale Part 2 for Monday...and maybe even have a little post on home decor coming soon. Ohhh fun! ;)

xo,
H