Writing News, Quarter-Life Crisis, and the Nine-Month Photo Shoot From...

First off, thank you all for your wonderful support/commiseration/advice on my last post. I was...not in a good place. I'm feeling much better now, having both a.) slept, and b.) told D I was unhappy, and am hoping things continue on the up and up :)

Generally, I am feeling a bit of a quarter-life crisis coming on. I hate my hair, I hate my clothes, I feel like considering a move (something I swore I would never do), and so on and so forth. I just feel listless and bored, and am hoping to shake it by a bit of shopping and perhaps a little makeover. Either way, I'm trying to focus on taking positive steps forward, as opposed to wallowing a la Saturday morning. I'm a firm believer in the whole "if you don't like something, then change it" philosophy, and cannot stand when people whine or complain and then do nothing about why they're unhappy. So that's that. Some things are going to be changing around my life, and while I'm not entirely sure what and how, I'm excited for what the future holds.

As for A, she's getting so big! I cannot believe that she took a step three days ago, and then repeated it twice over the weekend. She's certainly not walking just yet, seeing as how she can't take more than one step, but I'll take that one and go with it. She's also gone from standing with uncertainty, not wanting me to let go, to me being a mere prop for her to pull herself up on and then let go and stand, looking so proud and smiling so big!

Today was A's nine month photo shoot, although where A was during the shoot I don't know, seeing as how I have nine month photos of SATAN. Ok, ok, so that's not entirely fair, but whoa Lord. She was not having it. Her last few photo shoots have gone so well and she was all smiles, but seriously, about 90% of the pictures from today she's either crying, pouting or all red faced from crying and pouting. TO be fair, though, this time last week she had two teeth on bottom, and now she has six total - four brand spankin' new ones on top! Yikes.

As for my writing news: I am going to be writing for Gather's other writing program, talking about my experiences as a mom (sound familiar?). This is exciting for two reasons. First, I was hired as a moms writer initially, writing news that pertained to moms (new vaccine research, new info on attachment, crib recalls, the works), but then that "channel" got phased out, so I was moved to celebs, lucky to get to keep my witing job at all. Now I love celebrity gossip as much as the next gal, but I feel a bit like a sellout sometimes when I'm "reporting" on Lindsay Lohan's "bar hopping like a coked-up kangaroo" (love you, Modern Family!) or somebody's fake boobs. I mean, it's fun and all, but not exactly the type of thing many people take me seriously for. Anyhow, the new project is also exciting because it's in collaboration with Pampers, and so all my writing will be featured on the Pampers website as one of their mom writters/bloggers! YAY! I was supposed to go through training via conference call last week, but I'm an airhead and didn't realize it was EASTERN time (duh!), so it's being rescheduled to this week :) I'm excited to start, though how I'm going to find time I do not know :P

Happy Monday, everyone! Oh, and if you didn't see my post below about eating/foods for baby, please feel free to weigh in :)

Awww...

This totally made me cry....in a good way :)

New Feature!

OK, ladies - help me out by visiting my Gather RSS Feed to check out the newest articles I post :) It's right under my twitter button (which reminds me if you're not following me, add me and I'll follow you back!)!

Busy Bee!

I don't have time just yet to pay proper attention to my blog, despite not having posted in four days (!!!), but if YOU lovely ladies have time, come visit me over at britaylor.gather.com at any time to see what I'm writing about these days, or just click here!

I'm working over twenty-two hours before tomorrow night at 10PM, so I may or may not have time to catch you all up on the exciting happenings from our trip to the grandparents this weekend! Either way, I'll be back soon (I doubt anyone is really on the edge of their seats waiting, though - haha!)!!

In the meantime, as a thank you for checking in with me, here are some cutie-pie pics of my snugglebug! Forgive the small size and poor quality - these are from my phone!







I'm pretty proud of that last one - guess who can put their own paci back in (sometimes)?! Yep. That's my big girl!

And We're Live...

Ok, folks. My first article is up. Not that impressive I'll admit, but this is turning out to be a different type of assignment than I was expecting. Instead of writing about my own life, or my own baby, I'm being asked instead to cover news pertaining to moms and families and celebrity mamas. More of a reporter-style type thing...but I figured, eh, I'll give it a try.

Check out my first brief blurb here

AND my second, third, and fourth!

Also, as much as I didn't want to, I had to start up a twitter account in order to be able to more successfully do my writing gig. Follow me at @brijtaylor. Comment with your usernames so I can follow you back :)