Let's put mommy guilt in its place.
No lunch plans today? Cozy up to your computer, nuke your frozen entree, pop open a pop, and join a live Facebook chat about work-life balance. To celebrate Women’s Equality Day (woohoo!), the folks at Maid Brigade and Mom Corps have teamed up to bring some smart, interesting women to the table to discuss challenges [...]
Someone should really tell us ladies before we get married that we’re signing up for seven more hours of housework a week. That’s what a new study from the geniuses at the University of Michigan reports. And maybe that someone should also warn us about the even more housework we’ll have to do once we [...]
It’s Sunday afternoon. And instead of grocery shopping, doing laundry, cleaning, or taking care of a billion other things I need to accomplish in a weekend’s time, I’m working. Why? I don’t necessarily need to be working, but I’m trying to put in a preemptive strike, in case something happens. See, O threw up twice [...]
I never been very organized, which translates into a pretty cluttered house. Now my house isn’t dirty–just cluttered. I have lots of “papers” that lie around, I have a lot of clothes that don’t always get put away, O’s toys sometimes litter the living room floor, and I have been known to leave a dirty [...]
“Got any big plans this weekend?” “Did you have a nice weekend?” Such questions are innocent enough. Just office small-talk. TGIF, “Somebody’s got a case of the Mondays,” and all that jazz. But when people ask me, do they really want to hear my “big plans”? Do they really want a quick, punchy recap of [...]
