TAPP Blog

I recently had dinner with a friend ‘Emma’ who is expecting her first child. A very exciting time for her and her husband. I asked her whether she had decided what she was going to do after the baby was born – stay home, go back to work full time, or work part-time. She said that her company didn’t have part-time as an option and she was planning to go back full time. I laughed and said that there was a great resource I had heard about – TAPP- which might be able to assist if she decided she did want to work part-time.

Growing up Catholic and attending Catholic school for 12 years, I always attended Church on Easter Sunday. I always got a pretty new dress and new shoes. Up until I was a teenager I always wore a hat and gloves too. I have to say, even as an adult, I look forward to seeing how the little girls are dressed (especially the girls, since I have a boy) almost as much as I look forward to the red carpet at the Oscars. I was a little disappointed this Easter. Don’t get me wrong, there were some adorable outfits, but I saw some of the young boys in shorts, sneakers, and some of the girls had dresses above the knee.

You recently published your first children’s book. That’s exciting! What is the story about and what was your inspiration?

So today’s Groundhog Day and conveniently enough, I had some thoughts about Groundhog Day the movie. For those who haven’t seen the movie, it’s a film starring Bill Murray and he has to relive the same day over and over again until he gets it right. Sometimes my days seem like Groundhog Day; unfortunately I’m not sure when I’ll get it just right. The days seem to run into each other and I have no idea which day it is because I’ve done the same thing for the last four. I get home; we have to do homework, have to make dinner and then have to get everything ready for the following day so we can do the same thing all over again.

So I recently watched the movie “Multiplicity” starring Michael Keaton It’s not a 5 star movie, and it hasn’t earned any Oscars but very amusing and entertaining. The premise of the movie is that a man clones himself in order to have more personal time. So he sends his clone to work while he plays golf. His wife ends up needing help at home so he clones himself again to have the third clone at home while he again goes out to play golf. I could go on, but I think you get the point.