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Full Disclosure, Total Disapproval

Posted on November 15, 2007

Picture the scene: I am reviewing the agenda for a leadership program I’ve organized. The topic of the day: Board Responsibilities and Legal Implications of Board Participation.The morning line up: An attorney, a wealth management specialist, a bank president, and my boss. We were two hours into the session and in the midst of a break. I scanned the schedule, recommitting the segments to memory. And then I saw it. Eight lines down, the 2:30pm slot. It was an insurance agent. My insurance agent. He’s great, a warm, affable guy with an easy way and an encyclopedia like knowledge of all things insurance related. He was perfect for the day. I realized as his name stared back at me that I had never called…

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Categories: Work

The ASAP that broke the camel’s back

Posted on November 14, 2007

More and more I am realizing that email can be a piss poor form of communication, so much inevitably getting lost in translation as nuance and inflection fall flat when leaping from a smudged monitor. I got an email yesterday morning from a co-worker, and don’t misunderstand, there was no nuance or finesse, just your basic too-obnoxious-to-stomach-audacity from a person who I should be used to having butt in by now. Is this all too vague, too hard to follow without being given proper context? I realize that I might be a tad touchy of late, what with the whole misshapen mules and algae blonde bob episode bringing me to my knees and a few other things that out of preposterous vanity I’ve not…

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Categories: Work

Seeing with new eyes

Posted on November 14, 2007

The last several months have been revelatory or humbling, depending upon my pregnancy hormones. Avery is moving ahead at such a speed that it’s hard to digest it all, some days I am more aware of the language development, other days her athletic prowess, every moment her 0-60 in 3 seconds charisma. Looking back I realize that so much of what she is accomplishing we never gave Briar an opportunity to try – feeding herself soup at 16 months? Ha, I barely let her hold a sandwich. Today watching Briar play Caribou for the first time I was shocked. She was standing at her Papa’s knee, a look of reverent anticipation colored with a Christmas morning like excitement. He taught her how to play…

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Categories: Mama Sap

Mama Love

Posted on November 13, 2007

I worked from home today, sending out emails, returning phone calls and drafting copy to use in promoting events in the coming months. Between hitting send and staring blankly at the screen waiting for the perfect word to come to me, I read Elmo books, of course we skipped to the Cookie Monster pages, and fashioning crowns and jewels upon princess heads. I also became keenly aware of which Barbies have knees that bend and which simply eke by with bust lines meriting their own zip codes and feet too small to stand upon (thank goodness we finally bought a prince so the poor lasses have someone to lean on…rolling my eyes and wondering when the heck I fell into the unconquerable Disney Princess…

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Categories: Me

Cross that bitch

Posted on November 12, 2007

The Scene: Our living room after dinner The Player: Sean, Avery, Ella the dog and me Avery was jumping from the ottoman to the sofa and back, Sean was surfing and Ella was doing her best to position herself so that she was in physical contact with each of us. Avery soon landed in the space between the ottoman and the sofa and decided to stay on the floor, crawling around and around beneath our legs. Ella’s need to be touching us began to border on frantic. Me: Ella, move it. No movement from Ella. Me: Ella. Now. Go. Ella scooted approximately 3 inches away. Avery continued crawling. Avery: Beech. I cocked my head. Avery continued crawling. Avery: Bee- bitch. Go bitch. I leaned…

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Categories: Mama Sap, Me