https://media.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/content.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/WMM_6_CURVEBALLS.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS This week Kat and Nic talk about what they do when life doesn’t work out exactly (or even reasonably close to) as planned. Read more…
I was out to dinner with some girlfriends when the topic turned to birth control methods – you know because chicks talk about everything. My sweet and always well-mannered friend (think Charlotte from Sex in the City) informed me that she knew I was taking the pill because my eight-year-old son Sam had told her […] Read more…
As mothers we spend a lot of our time shielding our kids from the harsh realities of the world until they are ready to face them. School shootings, dead three-year-old Syrian refugees, teens who overdoes on heroine, missing commercial airliners – the list of frightening things that our children can be exposed to is overwhelming. […] Read more…
My husband, who thinks he is a comedian, told what he believed was a hilarious story to our friends. After he had spent the day doing yard work in the blazing 110 degree Arizona heat he commented to our friends that if it had been a landscaping crew out back tidying up the yard in […] Read more…
Have you ever had one of those moments when someone says something so crazy it feels like they just told you they sky is in fact green not blue? And they totally believe it. And they are pissed you don’t agree? You’re like, “Is my name Alice and have I just fallen down a rabbit […] Read more…
Nothing gets me hotter than walking into my house after a long days work, smelling the pungent aroma of Lysol, and marveling at sparklingly clean floors. A close second would be waking up in the morning to discover all of the week’s laundry has been washed, dried, and folded. Now if it’s actually put away I […] Read more…
Marriage is hard. Let me repeat for effect: Marriage is hard. It is mostly awesome but damn, is it hard sometimes. I have ten years of marriage under my belt. Semi-significant but certainly not medal-worthy. But ten years gives you a bit of a perspective. And I can say in all honesty that I had no […] Read more…
Slut: noun 1. a dirty, slovenly woman. 2. an immoral or dissolute woman; prostitute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODI-NALkI4c&feature=youtube_gdata_player I have been beyond furious with the comments Rush Limbaugh made about the law student who testified that it would be helpful if her birth control were covered by her medical insurance. I mean I’ve been having fantasies about tying my hair back in a pony tail, putting on […] Read more…
The holidays pretty much ensure that the little scraps of time we working moms carve out for romantic time with our husbands compeltely evaporates. It’s difficult to get busy when every free minute is spent shopping or wrapping. I’m not sure I’ve even bathed my children this week. I’ve given them the sniff test and […] Read more…