Working Mom

This time, I actually mean working mom. As in my "real" job. Life as an accountant means that come every Jan-Feb, I lose touch with life and end up working endless hours and barely get to see my husband and children. This also means I am away from my passion of woodworking. I get so restless and desperate to build something and I am denied.

This week add on a 2 year old with a cold which she shared with me (ahhh.....thanks). So my little sniffly miss was home from daycare and I was away from work during the busiest 2 weeks of the year. The 2 weeks leading up to our audit and where we have a million schedules to fill in and little time to complete it. I went to work at 12 yesterday since my husband and I split the day home with the kidlet. I worked until 8pm, came home and promptly crashed.

In my few moments every once in awhile at work I dream about my next project. I am working 9-12 hour days right now so I think I deserve a little break to think. Now if only I could remember to eat since tonight is the second night in a row I have forgotten to eat dinner.

I come up with so many little projects I want to make. Tonight while driving home (I have a 45 minute commute) I was thinking about how awesome it would be to own a vice and take a 4x4 piece of stock and use a hand planer to taper the legs. Is this odd? Perhaps. Given I do have a table saw and a new tapering jig I made with my Father In-Law, I have no reason to want to hand plane it. Other than the physical aspect of it. The part where I have to strain to lift the heavy wood and maneuver it. I love that feeling of strength when I lift something I build or spin it around.

Even tonight as I finally relaxed after a shower and a blissfully short 9.5 hour work day about building a super deep dresser with big chunky drawers and how silly that was because if we ever moved it would quite possibly not fit anywhere but here.

My mind wanders when tired, and this has been a long week. I have to work on Saturday and then clean my poor house, but somewhere in there I WILL find time to do something. Even if its just finishing a simple box I started for a friend. Bare with me during this slow time. Its feast of famine I guess. There will be times when work and family take me away from projects to showcase on here. Not to mention I am getting a bit away from redo-ing a whole room into doing just projects.

Speaking of rooms, which is better? A 5 bedroom house with a laundry closet in the hallway, or a 4 bedroom house with a laundry room? Yup, you can tell I am tired. Anyway, take care folks and soon I will be back at this.

---The Sawdustmomma, more commonly known as Tabitha or just Mommy