Return of The Stay-In-Bed Mom

So far, so good. After an insanely-busy six weeks, culminating last night in a Big Event with my offline Midtown (Atlanta) Book Group, months in the planning, promotion & execution, I am looking forward to going back to being the Stay-In-Bed Mom that I usually am ('cuz I can take the laptop in the bed and keep right on writing!)...unless I get a phone call in the next half-hour, requesting my last-minute chaperone skills (there's been a rumor) on a 5th grade field trip to the Atlanta Cyclorama today...I should probably wash my face and get dressed...eh, maybe not.

I would normally describe myself as a Work-At-Home Mom -- I'm a proud WAHM, and have been for nearly 13 years. A couple of years ago, on the fabulously-funny, but sadly under-appreciated HBO series ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Jason Bateman (the brother trying to keep his formerly-wealthy, highly-dysfunctional family going after a dramatic financial downturn) referred to Portia de Rossi (his unemployed, pampered-princess sister) as a Stay-In-Bed Mom, which has stuck in the popular lexicon of our family.

Who wouldn't want to be a Stay-In-Bed Mom? Even my husband appreciates the concept, although I think we have very different expectations of what, exactly, a Stay-In-Bed Mom does in the bed. I work -- well, again, that could be taken two ways, which is why I have stayed away from the Stay-In-Bed-WORKING Mom. That just doesn't sound right.

Closer to my reality of staying in bed (not literally, usually -- in fact, the bed is already made for today), but still being able to work -- to read in comfort and write propped up with the laptop computer -- is the very-talented Marian Keyes's non-fiction: Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities. (Duvet, you know, is Marian's Irish for quilt, comforter or bedspread!) If she can do it...

This is all to say, the last six weeks have been insanely-busy:

• With the ongoing, weekly Middle School Book Group on Mondays;
• The GRE & grad school application process;
• The homework coordination & supervision of 7th, 5th & 2nd graders in the house;
• Turning 40, which took more than a week (the 'octave' of the birthday, you know);
• Halloween!!
• The 17th Annual Writer's Workshop; and
• Midtown Book Group Event w/Special Guest Author David Fulmer.
  (I will be getting to more about that in Rebel Reviews.)

And here we are already, one week from Thanksgiving! So, just for the day, if I don't get the need-you-to-chaperone call, I'm going to enjoy a Stay-In-Bed Mom Day, until I have to go out and run some errands.

It's 10:00am now, I'm thinking I'm safe...