Who Wears Short Shorts?

Over the past two weeks I've had the opportunity to share childcare duties with Cory while our nanny is on vacation.  The opportunity to forego work and stay home with River during the day has been something I had been excitedly anticipating.  I've been craving lazy open days begging to be filled with a long list of fun activities I put together during the wait. 

Unfortunately, it wasn't as easy as I had hoped... first Cory didn't work for almost a week leaving me able to work those days.  Then when I finally did get my time off with River, I had clients calling me daily, quick deadlines and stress over how to portion my time such that I could get work in without losing the chance for fun. 

Such is my existential crisis as a working mom.  Especially when I am a Type A personality.  I want to succeed at both but have to seriously redefine what that success is otherwise I will drive myself crazy with the guilt of failure.  I won't ever be the high ranking corporate female engineer.  I don't want to devote nor do I really have the time necessary to get there.  My house will never be picturesque with neat clean lines and colors of organization.  I don't have the time and energy to devote to that.  Sometimes we will have to rely on our nanny to help us to take care of River.  I hope it will be a benefit to him to have the additional influence of her peaceful, humble, giving nature.    

I could go on and on about my existential crisis but I will save that for another post.  Instead I will share some ridiculously cute pictures of River "playing soccer ball" as he called it.  We attended a 3 and 4 year old soccer camp one evening this week and while it was complete chaos, to my chaotic 3 1/2 year old it was pure excitement.

He looks like such a natural!

I loved how 70's footballer he looked in these short shorts :)

Kudos to all of the volunteers that made this possible.  They did an amazing job...

...as evidenced in River's cheesy, Chiclet toothed grin!

Despite having to juggle work we still managed to squeeze the most out of our days together.  It is so rewarding when at the end of each day you fall into bed exhausted with the sore back and muscles that only come from a day of running hard, playing bears, and doing whatever it takes to give your child perma-cheesy-Chiclet-tooth-grin.

I still have one post left in my Passing the Buck Series then I will be devoting some time to restructuring my blog.  I'm excited about the changes and want to thank everyone who has come to check out my blog since I joined A Real Adoption Blog Hop over at Adoption Magazine.  A truly inclusive list of great adoption blogs from all sides of the adoption triad no matter what the writer's opinion of adoption is.  Just as it should be!  I encourage everyone to check the list out.  Many of the blogs I already follow but now I've got so many new ones to check out.  Insert picture of my cheesy, Chiclet toothed grin here.