Pretending to have a column

I love my children beyond words but sometimes I need to hide in the closet to drink a coffee, you know?   
 My intention is to reach out to other moms who might be wondering how to apply their educations while cleaning out the crevice beside the stove during nap time. ( I am making it sound like I attend to these types of cleaning duties regularly.  The last time I did this was in 2006, when my son was 9 months old.  He is now 5, and I have a 2 year-old and a 6 month-old as well.  If you come over, please don’t look in the crevice beside the oven.  I’m sure it is infested with dog hair and stray magnetic letters, to say the least.)
This week I found myself googling “feminism and housewives”, in an attempt to see if there is a solution to the classic conflict of women wanting to “have it all”.  I am home on parental leave, and intend to go back to work in about a year and a half, so I am only dabbling in the stay-at-home mom thing.  But then when I go back to work I will be dealing with another set of challenges and I wonder what the answers really are.  How do you commit to young children and still feel like you are actively engaging your intellect at the same time?  Well, one of my solutions is to write a blog.  Pretend that I am a journalist or something.  It’s either this or drinking. Kidding.  Sort of.