Last week Josh Spector* shared an article by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang from Thrive Global called Work-Life Balance Is About Years, Not Days. This is basically a fresh take on the ’tilting’ theory of finding balance, something I first read on Planning with Kids years ago and was recently reminded of by Brooke at Slow Your Home. I…
How I unspoiled my kids
I shared an article on my Facebook page a couple of weeks ago, that was shared again and again. There is a lot about the article that I don’t agree with (the headline, for one thing), but there was a lot in there that really resonated with me. I am hyper-aware of how it is…
Work and life and living
Ages ago I wrote a post about how having it all felt a bit like shit and it was a big one. Lots and lots and lots of mums could relate. The interesting thing about writing that, though, was that I think I missed the point. Or, at least I didn’t write the point very well….
Weekend Rewind | School holiday blues
We are almost half-way through the school hols already and I don’t know how I feel about it. It’s been a bit of a struggle to readjust to being a working mum and billeting out the children to make the holidays work. Holidays are not happy times for working mums. Unless we happen to be on…
The kind of mother I am…
“I should have… ” “It would have been better if…” “I wish I was…” “I’m going to…” “I never…” “If only…” How often do you catch yourself using these statements? If you’re anything like me, the answer is “all too often”. I like myself, I really do. So I’m not sure why I think I’m…
Secret Working Mums Business: WMP
Much like the kid who wants to be an actor but trains to be a plumber, every mother needs a second job. It’s a self-esteem thing, but not as you might think. Yes, it’s busy being a working mother. Busy, busy, busy. It requires the strategic planning power of a General and the stamina of his…
Work / life integration
My life as a ‘working mother’ is not something that I talk about half as much as I’d like on my blog. Naturally it comes up from time to time, but to give it the same amount of focus that it has in my real life, well… I think my corporate job would bore the…
Postie delivery: The art of the working mother – more Picasso than Monet
Rzrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa… sorry, that was my attempt at copying the mosquito whine of our postman’s motorbike. Doesn’t really sound like that, does it? Today I’ve delivered a post over at Planning with Kids. Nicole asked me to share some tips for working mothers, but I’ve already been there with regretfully bitchy results, so instead I thought…
Those wretched little moments
The Badoo was really sick last night. It started at around 11pm and went on until just after 3am. Vomiting every ten minutes until she was feebily retching and heaving every ten instead. “I don’t want to do this anymore, mummy,” said my weak little trouper at one point. My heart coiled. How helpless and…
Things I learned this week including that cupcakes can bake themselves
Happy Friyay! Another week, another… week. I overnighted in Adelaide on Sunday night for a shoot on Monday, collapsed exhausted on Tuesday following major work announcements, spent Wednesday night laughing at a home BBQ with my soon-to-be-ex colleagues and spent Thursday night baking into the wee small hours. Hello working Mum. Here’s what I learned…