https://media.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/content.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/WMM_12_WHATNOTTOWEAR.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Before listening you need to know that Kat and Nic hate clothes shopping. In fact, Nic’s mom buys most of her clothes for her (usually from Goodwill). But they still feel like they should weigh in on professional dress. Sigh. Read more…
https://media.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/content.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/WMM_11_THEKIDSAREALRIGHT.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Kat and Nic had the hilarious, wonderful, and at times uncomfortable experience of interviewing and being interviewed by their two youngest kids. If you are looking for clues about what your kids might be thinking this is the podcast for you! Read more…
https://media.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/content.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/WMM_6_CURVEBALLS.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | 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…
https://media.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/content.blubrry.com/theworkingmommysmanual/WMM_MOM_FAILS_5.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS This week Kat and Nic bring you in on some of their worst/best mom fails! You are not alone! Read more…
I’ve had a level ten terrible last two weeks. God is definitely testing me. Specifically I’ve spent the last two weeks fighting. With everyone. About everything. If I believed in astrology I’d be convinced that Mercury was in retrograde. The reason I’m having such a tough time is that I’m typically fantastic at letting things […] Read more…
One of my first and most brilliantly clear memories of being a mom was after my first night feeding with my son, I placed him back in the hospital bassinet that was surrounded by Plexiglas so I could stare at him. And in those quiet first moments of mother son bonding I sobbed hysterically because […] Read more…
Look I know as a working mother you have about zero time to do anything other than what currently gets you through your day. I so feel you on this. But I’m still going to ask you to reach deep within yourself and try to fit one more kind of big deal thing into your […] Read more…
I love to write. It is my therapy, my meditation, my outlet to release all the crazy buzzing around in my head. When I write about the trials, tribulation and triumphs of being a working mom I feel like I’m doing exactly what I was put on this earth to do. But lately I’ve been […] Read more…
I was raped in high school when I was sixteen years old and I never told another soul about it—mostly—until two years ago. Even now when I write or talk about it I feel disassociated from what happened. Like that sixteen year old version of me is someone I know but not really me. The […] Read more…
My grandmother Irene was so tough that behind her back I (lovingly) called her Imean. She raised six kids with a less than engaged philandering husband (sorry not sorry grandpa) in a small three bedroom home 1,700 miles away from her own family. There isn’t one thing in that last sentence that wouldn’t require nerves […] Read more…