Where Separation Anxiety Meets Mommy Anxiety
By Jenna, Contributor This post originally appeared on Blogged Bliss, June 2011 Last Wednesday was a big day in the Mrs. Jenna household. Not only was the hubs leaving for a 5 day-long fishing trip in...
View ArticleOn Becoming A Raging Hormonal Lunatic
By Tracy, Managing Editor April 12, 2010. I will never forget that date, as it was the day I had to return to work. Abby was a little over 5 months old. We tried our hardest to keep her out ...
View ArticleChange Isn’t Always For The Best
By Tracy, Managing Editor One little question. That’s all it took to put me in a spiral of anxiety. The person who asked this question had no clue what it would do to me. I had been avoiding answering...
View ArticleKeeping It Together {Trying To}
By Brandee, Contributor I’m quite sure I haven’t got this whole working mom thing down to a science yet; in fact I know I haven’t. Further, I don’t think I ever will. I have yet to get through a day ...
View ArticleGreat Expectations
By Jess, Contributor What a week. Actually what a few weeks. I seriously feel like a broken record when I tell friends or family that I’ve been slammed at work. Not of the work, I like that. But...
View ArticleSometimes Routines Go Out The Window
By Katherine, Contributor I am more than a little bit type-A. I like my schedules, my routines, my lists. This little personality trait might just be the reason I always park in the same spot at work...
View ArticleThe Most Wonderful Time of the Year?
By Katherine Contributor You know the song right? I’m talking about the Christmas song that every time I hear it I can’t help but smile and sway back and forth. At the same time I’m swaying back and...
View ArticleLeaving The Stress At The Door
By Katherine Contributor Oh friends, these last couple of weeks have been rough on this working mama. These last couple of days in particular. I touched on it here a few weeks ago. But lately, between...
View ArticleThe Art of Working Through Distraction
“Bella puked at school. She’s waiting at the office for you.” This is the call I got Wednesday morning at my office. 9:30am as I was stuffing my face with an oatmeal bar and contemplating a second...
View ArticleWorking Mom + Technology = Meltdown
Have you ever cried over a cell phone? No, seriously. I had a complete and total meltdown over technology this week. Because I’m over technology. It’s supposed to make life easier, but all it ever...
View ArticleShangri-La It Ain’t!
I’ve noticed something for a little while now. I’m a little insane. And by insane, I mean – I keep doing the same thing day after day and expecting different results. What I do every day is this: I...
View ArticleRolling With The Punches: Routine Change
I’m reaching for the red pepper when I hear it. SPLAT! Juice? Water? Orange slice? Milk from a cereal bowl? I do a systems-check roll call somewhere deep in my head. I hear Bella, I hear Nik, I hear...
View ArticleAll Consuming
I’m a big consumer. I always have been. I just eat things up, figuratively and literally, and let it all sit, doing nothing to purge it all away. Overwhelmed at work and I eat a couple homemade cookies...
View ArticleA Working Mom’s Battle with Anxiety and Fear
This is a hard post to write. It’s one I’ve digitally and mentally trashed multiple times. But I figured, what the hell? I’ve put so much of myself out on the World Wide Web. What’s one more admission?...
View ArticleWorking Mom of Special Needs Child Needs Support
I work full time, and I just started a brand new job with better money and much more responsibility. It was a great career move. However, my 20 month old son, Knox, has digestive health issues that...
View ArticlePPD and the Working Mom
Hi. I’m Brandy and I have suffered from postpartum depression/anxiety…twice. I had no idea how to start this post so lets just shine light on the elephant in the room right off the bat (holy cliche...
View ArticleA Letter to my CEO
Dear Dr. Goodnight, First off, thank you. Thank you for…well…everything. My job. My husband’s job. My benefits. His benefits. Our flexible hours. All of it. I am very humbled by what you have given...
View ArticleFormula: A Working Mom Reality Check
When I went back to work with Landon, we had nursing down pat. No more latch issues, a great 3 hour schedule and I was confident. I had never been “overflowing” and barely got engorged those first few...
View ArticleWork-at-Home, Semi-Single Mom
Allow me to introduce myself! I am Lindsy, work at home, semi-single, foster mom. I am a free lance photographer and I also work from home, Monday through Friday, as a marketing project manager. Let...
View ArticleKeeping My Head Up
I’ve been drowning swimming treading water at work for a few weeks now. My attempts at staying on top of things, staying afloat if you will, much less getting ahead have all been in vain. And while...
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