working mom – Tiny Woman Tall World

Dear Elsa, Anna and Olaf

Please accept this letter as your immediate eviction notice. You’ve taken over my house long enough! How does Frozen captivate young children and place them in a catatonic state? I am of course mainly kidding, but Nug’s obsession with the animated feature is REAL. She loves to…

Working from home

posted on : July 23, 2020 4 Comments

I always dreamed of the ability to work from home, it sounded like paradise. Wake up, roll out of bed and begin work in snuggly pajamas without judgement. In practice, with a toddler, things look different from the rosy picture painted above. I was accustomed to getting up, showering, putting…

The Rona

posted on : July 14, 2020 4 Comments

Someday 2020 will be a distant memory of isolation, masks, quarantine and the Rona. However, today it’s hard to imagine the world going back to any semblance of normal in my lifetime. Corona Virus or COVID-19 came sweeping into our lives and turned them upside seemingly overnight. The…

Where did my newborn go?

posted on : September 17, 2019 6 Comments

It feels like it happened overnight … crawling, climbing and teething. Life will never be the same in the T-Witt household. Gone are the days of leaving Nug in the living room basically motionless while I switched laundry, used the restroom, worked or made a coffee. Now I have a…

Everybody in the club getting tipsy

posted on : July 30, 2019 8 Comments

You can find me in the club? Ahhhhhh no actually you cannot. The clubbing chapter of my life has closed … and not regrettably. I don’t like to metaphorically shut doors and dead bolt them … but I’ve built a mote patrolled by a dragon around this particular gate. Ten…

Work = me time

posted on : July 23, 2019 12 Comments

Well I’ve been back at work for nearly two months and it’s been great. Initially I was nervous to return after being off for nearly 7 months with Nugget. There were numerous fears … missing Nug, balancing working and momming and of course complete/epic failure. However my reservations…

Going … Going … Back … Back … to Cali … I mean work

posted on : June 11, 2019 10 Comments

When my maternity leaved ended I couldn’t imagine being separated from Nugget for more than a few hours. I reluctantly returned to my 8-5 grind for two weeks … and found it wasn’t nearly as painful as I imagined it would be. For our family…