Take your child to work day

The MiniMonkey ensuring we are working from home not the office.

Working quietly while being photo bombed, damn celebrities popping up in the office.

So yesterday was take your child to work day. While I think that it's great that littles have an opportunity to go to the office and see what mom and dad do to bring in a paycheck. I face a different kind of life. For us its a bigger deal when I don't have to take my child to work because that means its a day off for me and Minimonkey. My boss is amazing since the arrival of his monkeyness I have been able to adjust to a schedule where I work from home during the week and go to the office during the weekend. That means I never pay for daycare. It also means if I am working during the week the Minimonkey is working. So every work from home day is take my child to work day.

What that also means is my home office is designed not for my comfort but for his comfort. In homage to take your child to work day I finally got the dvd player set up (thank you husband). There are multiple nap spaces for him. I constantly have to make sure that I prepare for him to work with me. That means cycling toys and now dvds. Sometimes it means nursing him while taking and dispatching calls. Other times it means laughing and being force fed snacks between calls (Minimonkey is an amazing intern: how many other people get fed snacks like an emperor?). Or it can mean reading him stories a page at a time between calls. Worst case it can mean comforting a small person who wants to be done working and doesn't understand why mommy can't just be done talking to strangers.

So everyday is take my Minimonkey to work day and I am grateful for it. It can be rough. It can mean being a human jungle gym. It can also mean being asked by a doctor if I have a cat or monkey in my office. BUT the best part is Minimonkey has never gone to daycare. He gets to be my unpaid intern (well when I say unpaid I'm not factoring in mom guilt purchases like dvds, new books, toys, etc. anything that will help him be amused enough for mommy to work and him to be entertained and safe). It lets me bring home a paycheck and in his own way he contributes to our success.