Mommy Guilt

Mommy Guilt, the guilt working moms feel when they go to work also the guilt that any mom feels when she's away from her kids.
I've felt it, there are mornings when I'm getting ready that I just want to say; fuck it, I'm calling in sick so I can stay home with my kiddo. I don't do it, but I've felt that way. I can tell you that this AM was not one of those AM.
After a fitful nights sleep, of B waking up and having crying fits, I was glad to take her to the sitter and go to work. I needed the time away or I was going to kill something.
Sitting here on my pumping break writing this post has given me the ability to evaluate and tell myself, this won't last forever, she will only be a baby once. My mantra on some days.
I'm not saying I love being away from my kid. I don't. I think a lot about the milestones I'm missing. But the advantage I think working mom's have is that when our kids are driving us crazy you just remind yourself when your going back to work. And that you have the ability to take a kid sabbatical for the time your at work.
The stuff they do to drive you crazy doesn't seem so bad when your at work.
So I feel better about the lack of sleep. And now I want to go home and give B a big hug.

How do you deal when your kids are driving you crazy? Let's hear from the Stay at home mom's too, you guys work hard.

Swiffer pad Tutorail

So I've been MIA for awhile. Sorry. I've just had so much to talk about but couldn't get my thoughts organized. And I still really can't. So I thought I would post a tutorial on how to make your own Swiffer sweeper pads.
Depending on the kind of material you use, you can use them for wet or dry pads. Swiffer pads are expensive and it doesn't cost that much to make reusable ones. It's cheaper and greener! I've made mine out of rags, old towels, t-shirts, basically whatever material I had laying around.
The pictures that I took are of some prefolds that I really didn't like so I thought I would use them to make some pads.

Take your swiffer and plunk it down in the middle of your material. I marked the length of the swiffer.

Fold over the end of the material where you made your marks and then give yourself a 1/2" allowance on the long sides of the swiffer. You are going to cut down these 1/2" marks

I've made the cut on the right side of the fabric and now I'm getting ready to do the left

Fold over at your Swiffer length marks. And pin. you can see my mark on the left hand side of the prefold. Then just sew down the length of the folded part of your material with a 1/4" seam allowance. your basically creating pockets on both sides.

You can see my pocket in this picture. Then zig zag stitch the long edges/rough edges.(If you don't do this your material will unravel) If you have a serger you can do this with a serger too. If you do, can I borrow it? I so wish I had a serger.

Ta-Da! It's done and you now have a lovely reusable Swiffer pad.

The other pad in this picture is made out of an old dust rag and pieces of a t-shirt.
The nice thing about this project is that it doesn't have to look perfect, because your just cleaning your floors with it any way. It just has to work. And your not spending money on a box of swiffer pads you just use what you have.