The Pie Life, a new book by work/life balance expert Samantha Ettus, is a shoulder to cry on for working parents everywhere. And I mean that to include work at home parents, and even parents who are not currently working to earn an income, but working solely to care for their … [Read more...]
It’s a Small Life After All
I'm going to try something for a minute. I'm going celebrate my little life. I'm going to be proud of trying to be a good mother. Trying to be a good housekeeper, a good wife, a good PTA president, a good member of my community, a good writer, a good daughter, sister, … [Read more...]
Being a Stay-at-Home Mom Is a Luxury…For Your Kids (A Dad’s Response)
Luxury? Ha! The working spouse is hardly putting his feet up, watching the game and drinking a beer with his buddies. Neither is the stay-at-home parent. The only luxury of having a stay-at-home-mom is felt by the children. And that's how it should be. One dad responds to the … [Read more...]
Oops, I Did It Again – My Secret Too-Busy Closet
Behind every organized person is a messy, messy closet. Talk to the hand. As the summer approached its end I started getting anxious about all the PTA duties that lay before me as the new PTA co-president for my kids' school. It was mostly The Great Unknown of it - how would … [Read more...]
Sleep In: My Reaction to Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In”
A stay at home mom wants to lean in. Later. Sheryl Sandberg's popular book Lean In makes me want to go back to work. I know, that's a big 180 from my post a few weeks ago in which I publicly admitted that I am a stay at home mom right now. Don't get me wrong. I'm not … [Read more...]
