Love at the office
Well, that was kind of a mis-leadng title, eh?
Since the b5 Media Family and Relationships Channel’s Blog Carnival theme is “love”, for a moment, I wasn’t sure how it would fit in here at Career and Kids. But, then I quickly realized, that for most of us, our love for our children is one of the reasons we do the career thing.
When love for your kids meets your office:
- You wear a macaroni necklace to a meeting
- You have no lunch money in your pocket, but, you do have an extra pacifier in there
- Your desk drawer contains a new box of crayons, and, paper for emergency visits
- Your art on the office wall consist of at least one “original” piece.
- Lunch occasionally means getting a Happy Meal at McDonald’s in hopes of getting the “hot” toy, while your co-workers enjoy grown-up fare.
- Even though people may dread seeing you coming, you (if permitted, naturally), take a deep breath, and, try to sell some wrapping paper or a few candy bars for the school fund raiser.
Sometimes these signs of love may be “appropriate”, sometimes not, but, they sure do make the days easier.
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4 opinions for Love at the office
Weary Parent: Parenting Tweens & Teens » Love is in the Air at the Carnival
Feb 8, 2007 at 6:21 am
[…] Love at the Office - it’s not what you think according to Elizabeth at Career and Kids. How many of her expressions of love have you shown? […]
Char
Feb 8, 2007 at 8:02 am
Or in my case - somedays I share my office with my youngest member of my firm’s “creative staff”. Like today - I have to check her creations on Barbie.com while blogging away and building a site for a client. But I will miss my officemate in September when she goes off to school!
Slartibartfast
Feb 8, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I probably overdo the kid pictures and their original artwork in my office.
But like you said, it sure makes the days easier looking at them and remembering why I do this.
Oh, and about that school fundraiser…
We Love Baby! » Busy Mom: Now even busier!
Feb 10, 2007 at 10:07 am
[…] What you may not realize is that in addition to her day job and her kids and her everyday blog, Busy Mom has two OTHER blogs, Career and Kids (which is all about, uh, career and kids) and GenBetween (about life as an adult child and a parent). Both share the same wit as the original Busy Mom site, and both are worth a look.Career and Kids is a must-read for working parents. Posts like “Love at the Office” (which starts out, “Well, that was kind of a mis-leading title, eh?”) point out the funnier moments in the lives of working parents (”You wear a macaroni necklace to a meeting”) while others deal with hot-button issues like taking kids out of school for family vacations. In this day of crazy us-against-them Mommy wars rhetoric, it’s nice to read a site that doesn’t take sides, and that finds the humor in the day-to-day of working parents. […]
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