I've learned in my four years of either being pregnant or being a mom, that we, in the mother hood, feel that our mom-onality gives us an unspoken right to disperse nuggets of mom-wisdom to one another freely. There...
Shhhhh....I have a dirty secret.
Okay, maybe not so dirty, not in the way you're thinking. But sometimes it feels like a dirty secret.
My secret: I like to work.
That's right. I do. While pregnant with our third and fourth babies (surprise, twins!)...
Probably the most insensitive thing one could say to a mom who works in an office is “Don’t you miss them during the day?”
My answer always is: Never, actually. The whole reason I go to work is to get away...
Every New Year, many working mamas start off with a goal to achieve “work-life balance.” Your intention behind work-life balance goes something like this:
“I want to spend this much time with my family, and this much time with work...
Last December, I found myself sitting at the hospice bedside with my grandfather. He fought a month-long battle with COVID-19, and although he tested negative before his release from the hospital, he passed a short time after. Anticipatory grief...
If I turned in a request to my current employer right now asking to continue working from home for the remainder of the year, the answer would be no. Not a consideration, not a timeline to think it over,...
Serious question: Were our moms constantly exhausted and stretched so thin, almost all day every day? When I think back to my childhood, I picture my mom so chill, full of grace, always put together (even if only in...
Confession: I don’t spend very much time with my children during the week because I am at work. Maybe on a good day three hours, between breakfast and drop off, pickup and dinner and bath and bed. You’d think...
When I was a graduate student looking for a job — with a 5-year-old and newborn — to no avail, I began to seek out mentors. Because surely there’s a mama out there who has had to juggle school,...
My babysitter has a cold and canceled just in case. I have 2.5 hours of conference calls before my son goes to his afternoon VPK class.
I've done this before. Over and over and over back in 2020, when everything...
It’s been a long three months in our household — and many of yours, I’m sure. When the pandemic hit us in March, my husband’s job came to a screeching halt as no sporting events were being played. He’s...
I just pulled up into the driveway after a 12-hour shift, and I can see my little ones sitting at the breakfast table waving at me through the kitchen window. It's their routine on the nights that I work...