This is me and I'm a scientist's widow, hence the name of the blog. Two things that you need to know about me (there will be other things later)...
- I'm not officially a widow -- my husband is still here and kicking. But his science work tends to keep him away from home a lot longer than most normal people's careers would. On most nights and if I'm lucky, I see him for a total of 2 hours (but it is not unusual for him to come home after we have went to bed). We also have a 13-month-old daughter, two dogs, and three cats. So for most nights, I'm a (sometimes) strong, independent woman who acts as a single mom and furry caretaker.
- I come from a large Midwestern family (hence the cow calendar behind me). He comes from a small East Coast-ian family. And we are currently living over 600 miles away from my family in a city located on a Great Lake. So we don't have any family support here. Most often times, I need to utilize every ounce of energy to make this work (and sometimes it doesn't work).
This blog is a place to share my sometimes-funny, sometimes-crazy but always real stories about life as a scientist's widow.
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