Early Morning Work

I'm a working mom, so as I've mentioned before I work from our office on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays.  Tuesday and Thursday I am able to work from home!  This morning was a good example.  I do all the medical billing for our office and Corey my brother in law and the Ophthalmologist worked on charts last night.  So he texted me said I could pick up the charts this morning and then meet Brad (our office manager) to hand them off.  So I set my alarm for 5:00am!  As my phone starts beeping at me I slowly awaken from my slumber to not only a beeping alarm, but also a whiny little baby girl!  She was very obviously hungry.  I needed to feed her, which put me a little behind.  After she was done I packed her up in her car seat (the husband wasn't home from work yet so I had to take her with me) and drove to my brother in laws arriving at 5:45am.  Grab the charts from their kitchen counter (everyone was still asleep) and headed back home. 

Upon arrival home I attempted to put a very sleepy/cranky baby back to bed and started my chart work by 6 am.  Our office manager wanted to meet at 7am this morning for the hand off.  He texted me at 6 informing me that he was leaving his house in 20 minutes, whhaaa???  I had something like 60 charts to do so I had to get through them fast.  I called the husband told him I wasn't going to be able to make him breakfast this morning and starting crackin' on the charts.  6:45am I'm only 1/3 of the way through, oh crap!  Fingers flying over the keyboard, completed charts stacking up higher and higher.  7:10am 2/3 of the way done.  Faster, faster, faster my eyes are glued on the upper right hand corner of my screen where the clock is reading 7:25am, DONE!!!  Speedy, speedy -- good thing my typing skills are a killer 115WPM, round about with a few errors here or there ha!  I left my house by 7:30 and arrived at the hand off location by 7:42am!  I'd say that's pretty good for a quick morning's work!

Back home now enjoying my healthy oatmeal and fruit breakfast and loving the silence of the house while my husband and sweet baby sleep!  I love my life...

Lazy Chicken Dinner

So I've become incredibly lazy about cooking dinner lately.  But I also recently noticed that our credit card bills (although paid completely off monthly) has sky rocketed.  So the two combined =

LAZY CHICKEN DINNER!!! :)

Ingredients:
1 lazy ass chef (check)

2+ frozen chicken breasts
1 can condensed soup of your choice

deep pot or slow cooper

numerous potatoes 

and vegetable of your choice

Instructions:
 1.  In deep pot or slow cooker
follow condensed soup instructions

2.  Once boiling add frozen chicken
and reduce the med/low heat
(will take 15 minutes to cook thoroughly and much 

longer if you want it super fall into pieces yummy)
3.  Stab potatoes with fork
and place in microwave for 5 minutes
4.  Steam your veggie variety of choice 

either using your microwave or boiling on stove

5.  Place chicken, potato and veg on 

plate and serve to hungry husband!

Yes I'm lazy, but it's also called bein' a workin' mom yo!

Workin' Mama thanks her Mom

This week has been harder than most weeks. 

I normally work Monday, Wednesday & Friday from the office and Tuesday and Thursday from home if I'm not completely caught up.  Mon & Wed our hours are 9-4 so we are normally out of here by around 5 or 5:30 and home by the latest 6.  Sometimes way earlier.  Fridays are our long days when we have office hours from 9-7 and normally don't get home til around 9. 

However, this week its been a little different.  Our hours were extended til 5 on Monday and we actually didn't leave til close to 7.  Wednesday was the same and today we are scheduled til 7 which means again we probably won't get home til 9.  On top of that we work tomorrow 9-3 which probably puts me getting home at least to 5.  At least I had Tuesday and Thursday home with my little schmookadoo (Maddie). 

Everyday I go to work I drop my little baby Maddie off at my Gramma's house.  My mom is staying with her the next 6 months since my Aunt (my Gramma's caregiver) left for China.  This is actually really ideal for me because my Gramma's house is only about 5 minutes from mine and in the direction of work.  I am super grateful for my mom, she really does take great care of my daughter and she's always willing to help out even if she has something else going on.  For instance tomorrow she has her Pond Society Tour and her house is open for people to come and see her pond and even though she lives 30 minutes north of me (and not in the direction of work) I'm going to be dropping Maddie off with her and she's going to watch her on top of having her Pond Society stuff going on.  Talk about having an amazing mom on Mother's Day weekend of all times!! :D

But besides being extremely accomodating the real reason I am so grateful for my mom is because she watches Maddie making it so we don't have to send her to day care or have a stranger/nanny come in and take care of her at the house.  Honestly I would completely lose it if I had to leave my daughter we a stranger.  I know that person doesn't care as much as family cares and you never know what the hell is going on when you are gone.  I know my mom loves Maddies as much as I do and will tend to her every need. 

So on that note....thanks Mom for being totally awesome at your job.  And a Happy Mother's Day to all you Mamas out there! ;)