Get Blended
BSB (before second baby) I lived, in retrospect, an idyllic life. I worked from 7:30 to 7:30 – a short day for many of my clients – went home to a home-cooked (by my husband) meal, talked with my articulate and well-behaved 4 year old son, watched some TV or read a book and went to sleep.
Around month eight of my second pregnancy I panicked, realizing that maybe having another kid wasn’t such a great idea after all. My son slept in our bed, perpendicularly, with his head in my back and his feet in my husband’s face, for exactly three years and 49 weeks. It was only a combination of bribery and the fortuitous arrival of a cold that required codeine that got him sleeping through the night in his own bed. Why put myself through all that again? But, as they say, you can’t be sort of pregnant so along came my (lovely, adorable, brilliant) daughter.
Now it’s ASB (after second baby) and I am back at work as the Managing Director of Cohn & Wolfe’s San Francisco office. I am living parallel lives, both a new type of idyllic in their own ways. By the time I leave the house in the morning I’ve lived an entire day; by the time I head home from work I am buzzing with the thrill of it all – cool technologies, shifts in the media, clients that want to do interesting programs, new opportunities around sustainable marketing.
If all goes as planned, my two lives will get blended very soon.