Tomorrow I have a full-day training seminar in St Paul — Andy’s got the day off to be with the kids so I can go to a sort of voluntary training for work / way to earn eight credit hours toward my IBCLC certification. I’m really excited to be starting the process of preparing for the exam!
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Best Practice: Managing Early Breastfeeding Challenges
‘This one-day workshop provides an intensive approach to the basics of breastfeeding promotion and early feeding issues – in the hospital, clinic and community. It is a helpful and effective beginning for education in research-based infant feeding, as well as an excellent update for IBCLCs and others who are interested in applying science to the practice of infant feeding.
This conference is closed.
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Then I have to rush home, where Andy will have the kids all ready to go to the elementary school for Noah’s Kindergarten open house. We were just there a couple of days ago for his “Kindergarten Countdown” orientation thing, but this is evidently open to all grades at the school. I’d say we could skip it –we have already gotten acquainted with the teachers and building last week– but apparently in towns that are larger than my hometown, this is standard practice for signing up for teacher conference appointment times for the whole entire rest of the year. Craziness. When I was little, parents just kind of showed up on the one appointed date between the hours of noon and 7 PM to the long row of teachers sitting behind big tables in the cafeteria and shuffled down the factory line to hear reviews about their kids’ performance in various teachers’ classrooms. It was a weird bazaar-like atmosphere. Now that I think about it, though, I may have fabricated that entire memory. That seems like a pretty strange way to conduct parent-teacher conferences.
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So anyway, for a mom who usually works from home and is otherwise always there with her kids, tomorrow is going to be a busy day. I’m looking forward to being part of the “normal” adult population for most of the day tomorrow. Fun!
