About

Heather Pemberton Levy

 

 

About Me

I’m a mommy to two little kids (3 and 5 years) writer, editor, wife, household executive, chef (sometimes), short order cook (most of the time), playmate and nag (hang your coat up, please!) I’m also now classified as a power mom, which makes it sound like I either know what I’m doing in this mommy job, have lots of important, exciting things going on while I’m doing my mommy job; or some kind of superpowers, which, other than a set of bionic ears and breathtaking speed at the sound of a blood curdling cry, is not the case.

About Mommy Truths

Mommy Truths is where I chronicle the lessons and insights of my experience raising young kids. Writing about the craziness, silliness, and eye-opening ah ha! moments of my days keeps me sane. It’s how I process the mommy job in all its isolation, frustration and joy. Plus, I like to share.

My Background

My day job, before having Son, was as vice president at an IT research and consulting firm. I did things like meet with people, manage product lines, launch product lines, launch a book publishing program, and generally work hard to move up the corporate ladder. After having Son, I went back to work part-time and did things like fight for “Mother Rooms” to breast pump in private, finesse breast pumping in a conference room with the door locked while surfing the Internet, dread leaving newborn Son and going to work each day, and resent my sweet Columbian nanny each night I returned home and discovered that she’d already given Son his bath and put him to bed. At the end of Son’s first year of life, I quit.

I stayed on as a consultant (10 hours per month), edited a new magazine (did I say that Son slept from 6 pm until 6 am?), and tried to learn the mommy job. I joined playgroups, did the dishes and laundry, and desperately searched for play dates for Son and me. I tried to get pregnant again and by his year and a half was nauseous and uninterested in moving off the lounge chair in the back yard. By December, I was seven months large and back working for the Company ten hours per week (hey, they needed me!). The magazine hadn’t taken, I was ready for some brain stimulation and we could use the money. I conducted calls to India, Tokyo and Sydney at strange hours and gave birth to Daughter on her due date in March.

The first two years of her life were a blur of toddler/infant scheduling conflicts, bedtime ritual dilemmas, and just plain exhaustion. No one told me that raising two kids actually is rocket science. That the presence (or lack) of a strong mommy network determines your sanity and success. Or that it will be really, really hard for a couple of years and then it will get easier. (Well, the daily routines get easier but the whining and fighting don’t.)

These days I balance raising the kids and managing the house with writing and part-time work for the Company. Somehow it all fits and satisfies different parts of myself. My days don’t run smoothly by any stretch of the imagination. They’re a work in progress. Just like this mommy job. I hope you like my blog. Please share your comments back.

For press or other inquiries, contact me at hpembertonlevy@gmail.com.