Tag: work

I read & reviewed Getting to 50/50: How Working Parents Can Have It All by Sharon Meers & Joanna Strober a couple of weeks ago on Liberating Working Moms. Sadly, life got in the way of my sharing that giveaway with y’all before now. {But I’ve enjoyed this book so much I’m considering in the future giving away my copy because it’s that good.} So good in fact that I had too much to say for one post.

So while it’s still fresh in my mind, I wrote a follow up post for Liberating Working Moms about what we gain from working. Getting to 50/50 spends the first third of the book on this topic. I shared my favorites & why over on LWM this morning.

I feel like as working mothers, we often hear {& even talk amongst ourselves} of what we lose by having a career and family. Things like extra time during the day with our kiddos, the ability to sign them up for the early afternoon dance class, to make it to the 11a library story time.

In reading Getting to 50/50, I learned there’s a whole other side of the coin that we working mothers can & probably should focus on: what we, our spouses & our children gain by us having a job beyond motherhood.

Jump over to LWM What We Gain from Working with me to read the rest? I’d love to hear your thoughts {working moms & stay at home moms alike} on this subject.

In a fog of cold medicine & while in bed, I wrote a post for Liberating Working Moms. I’m glad that it makes sense & is filled with {mostly} complete sentenses.

Katherine has posted recently on the importance of us mommas taking our vacation time for ourselves. I love that idea & added it to my hopefully-one-day-sooner-than-later to-do list.

I think as working moms, our meager sick & vacation times are often used up in a flash of sick babies & daycare/school vacations. While those days can be exhausting & tough, we enjoy the snuggles & flurry of activity. But those days are all about our little ones. The time we’ve earned, our time, is rarely used by us, for us.

This past Wednesday, I did something for the first time in my 11 months of motherhood: I called in sick & took all day off for me. Not to play nursemaid to Zach, Lucy nor my husband. {Y’all remember I did that enough to go a little crazy at the beginning of the year?} Yesterday was all me. My first sick momma day.

I’m feeling a little better today thanks to piling myself with hot tea, cough drops & Tylenol cold medicine. And sugar cookies {because cookies make everything better}. I’ve love to hear what you do to make yourself get or stay well when you have a Sick Momma Day of your own.