Hibernate Blog

I do it everyday, but this past weekend it wasn’t just another day at the office. Finley accompanied me to the BlogHer Conference in San Francisco.

See a bit of video from the San Francisco ABC affiliate.
All of 10 weeks, she made not a peep during the session on women entrepreneurs featuring Patricia Handschiegel as a speaker and comments from bloggers like Wendy Piersall. It felt incredible to be networking and learning in the St. Francis, with its history and grand architecture the stage for table upon table of Twittering, blogging, and texting women, and doing it all with my daughter strapped to my chest - how far we’ve come.


Fin did have a rather magnificent explosion during the keynote with
Stacy Morrison of Redbook, Lisa Hsia of Bravo, and Lesley N. Pinckney, director of digital development for Essence Communications Inc., the cleaning of which was handled deftly while still listening to the presentation, allowing me to feel present as both mom and professional.

We walked through the exhibits and sat in on sessions, while bloggers buzzed about the dazzling magic of the party at Guy Kawasaki’s house. I tried to keep my chin up about missing the People’s Party sponsored in part by GoodyBlog. A bit of pampering here helped, so did hanging out with Jess, Jen, Janet, and a serendipitous meeting with the twinkly author of Rocks in My Dryer.

Each night of the 4.5 day sojourn, I was thrilled that in addition to taking my daughter to work, I got to take her home, even if it was to a chilly hotel room.