Why the blog name?

I named my personal blog Multitasking Mommy years before I actually started blogging with my own URL. At that time, it was just random thoughts of mine (the archives are long gone now -- I blogged way too infrequently for it to be interesting) about my experiences with mommyhood.

Before I had kids, I had a job that I loved, at a company I loved. It was pretty much my first job out of graduate school, and I was lucky. It was my home, where I feel that I grew up. After taking five months off when I had my daughter (seven weeks for bed rest, the rest for maternity leave), I was surprised to be given a new job -- a promotion, and one I had wanted for a while. After two weeks back, I wanted to quit. I was way too stressed. Picking up my daughter before closing was hard enough, but in those first two weeks, she was sick for two days, and day care was closed because of snow for another day.

I went in my boss to quit, and instead walked out with a new arrangement... two days in the office and three working from home. It was extremely structured -- I was not to have my daughter home with me (unless she was sick) and I was to work very specific hours, and always be working (no housework or other chores while home). I thought it was an easy arrangement for me - I was able to keep my job, reduce my stress, and keep my daughter closer to me. I could even visit her at lunchtime!

That's when I decided that the name Multitasking Mommy was fitting. I was really trying to do everything, and I was able to keep it up for over three years. Now that I quit that job, I'm less stressed, but even more multitasking!