I remember it so clearly. I was driving down the Quays, towards the Samuel Beckett Bridge, heading home from work, wishing for an email. Not any email - one particular (in my head, at least) life-changing email. Begging the universe. If I could have just this one email, everything would come good. If this person who held ...
Author: Andrea Mara | Office Mum
61 Days Has Septober
We made it to mid-term! So, short and sweet, here are a few things that got me through Septober relatively unscathed - or at least less scathed than usual: Slow Cooker My slow cooker changed my life. I'm kidding, it totally didn't. But it's great for that one day each week when we get home later than usual. I ...
Office Mum stories: Nicola Cassidy
Fifteen Years Ago Today When it Rained
It's October 13th as I write this, and I'm thinking about what I was doing this time fifteen years ago. Checking the weather forecast (still rain). Checking the dress (still there). Checking the mass booklets (still not done). A last lunch with my first (and hopefully last) husband-to-be. The mood? Surreal. A little nervous. Very excited. And ...
Office Mum Stories: Back for More
The Unmistakeable Sound of Not Going to Bed
Be Careful What You Wish For
Back at the turn of the century (the turn of this one I mean, I'm not here since the 1900s, despite what my kids think) I was working in my first job, and at the time, there was a preoccupation with productivity. Predicting it. Measuring it. Improving it. You can't manage what you can't measure, ...
Five Go Off To Eat Crisps : The Clayton Hotel Liffey Valley and Tayto Park
On the 95th of September
We're half-way through. It's a bit soon for jumping to conclusions, and I'm tempting fate by writing this, and it's all going to fall apart this week just because I wrote this down. But then again, if I don't stop and acknowledge that it's happening, I might never believe that it did. September is usually HELL in ...