Squatter.

We finally figured out why Miss Squiggles isn’t gaining any weight.

In which I am named Alpha Mom of the Year

I am pretty much the most on-top-of-my-life working mother that I know.  For example,

• I’m continually exceeding expectations at work (read: after five years, people still ask Erin who that “blonde girl” is)
• I have a year’s worth of menus and recipes planned and organized in a fun, color-coordinated file system (read: we sometimes eat cheerios for dinner, right off the floor where they have been sitting since breakfast and/or lunch)
• I have weeks worth of laundry washed, ironed, and folded (read: irons terrify me, and we have  resorted at times to taking our laundry to the dry cleaners just to be washed… did you know they did that?)
• My house is spotless – no clutter, dirt, fingerprints on glass, or sticky residues on furniture due to toddler activities (read: sigh….)
• I am always on top of appointments, meetings, deadlines, and all manner of other responsibilities (read:  is today Sunday or Monday or Tuesday?  Crap!  – am I supposed to be in a meeting???)
• I’m on the board of several important community organizations (read: I sometimes wave to the neighbors, who wave back and then ask each other who that blonde girl is)
• All this and never a tear or complaint. 

One of my awesome alpha-mom attributes is my ability to get everything done that I want to, and way ahead of schedule.  For example, here are the awesome family pictures that I wanted to post TODAY, RIGHT NOW.  Nevermind that Cami took them a year ago and the baby has tripled in size since then.  I wanted a year to pass before I shared them with the world.  It’s all according to plan.  Hmph.

Don’t worry – none of us has changed that much except that I’m much skinnier, much taller, and much younger looking.