Showing Appreciation During The Holidays
By Brandee Contributor For the first time since becoming a working mother, I am faced with a holiday season. One in which I feel the need to purchase gifts for those people I entrust with my child day...
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By Shannon Contributor It’s no secret among my family and friends that I have specific taste in men. I like Hispanics. Always have. I blame part of that on the fact that I grew up watching Major League...
View ArticleOur Mary Poppins Wears Flannel Pants {Nanny Care}
By Alicia Contributor We have a nanny. Well…kind of. She’s mostly a babysitter, but she’s old enough to be the girls’ grandma, so we’ve taken to calling her a nanny. Doesn’t it make me sound rich?!...
View ArticleThe Art of Working Through Distraction
“Bella puked at school. She’s waiting at the office for you.” This is the call I got Wednesday morning at my office. 9:30am as I was stuffing my face with an oatmeal bar and contemplating a second...
View ArticleStealing Activities From Daycare {Contact Paper Mosaics}
I’ll be the first to admit it. Daycare is better at entertaining my kid. I find myself pretty creative and resourceful but I get stuck in a rut. Coloring, building with legos, pretend cooking, rice...
View ArticleSick Day: A Working Mom Bonus
We often talk about sacrifices we have to make as working mothers on here. We have limited time. We are constantly trying to please multiple audiences with family and work. We don’t get to take them to...
View ArticleQuick Teacher Appreciation Ideas
Teacher appreciation week is officially coming up May 7th-11th but for my daycare, April is kind of a whole month of stuff for our teachers. This week we are doing our goodie week. Over the years...
View ArticleFrom a Working Mom to Teachers: Thanks, for saving my sanity
You know what’s probably the best Teacher Appreciation gift? The weekend. You know when we should have Teacher Appreciation week? The week before Christmas. My kids are nuts then. Bouncing off the...
View ArticleLetting Daycare Do the Dirty Work {Potty Training}
Potty training is one transition in parenting I have NOT looked forward to. Breast to bottle? Easy. Table food? Piece of cake. New daycare classes? Psssshhhh. But potty training? But I just got the...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Daycare a la Abuela
I’ve previously written about the fact that my son goes to cultural childcare during the week. Or, as we like to call it, Abuela’s house. My son has the good fortune of spending eight hours every...
View ArticleDaycare Friends
You know what one thing I love the most about daycare? Well besides them taking on the messy crafts. I love the little friends. We are to the age where Landon can talk about his friends and vocalize...
View ArticleFamily Childcare: Let’s Talk About the Downsides
Very often, I am singing my mother-in-law’s praises because in addition to raising three kids, taking care of her granddaughter, cooking three meals a day, cleaning, sewing, and a litany of other...
View ArticleTales of an Indecisive Procrastinating Working Mom {Preschool Edition}
There are two important things you should know about me. Two things, which every year I say I’m going to work on, but alas, I don’t. For one, I’m a procrastinator. Huge. And secondly, I’m indecisive....
View Article#FirstDayBack To Work in Tweets and Pictures
Last Friday, Brandy returned to work full time, even though she did cheat and went in for a bit they day before as Oliver did start daycare part time to test the waters and allow Brandy some time to...
View ArticleMakings of a Stellar Nursing/Pumping Room
One of my favorite things about my new working mom situation is onsite daycare. While the cost and convenience is obviously spectacular, my favorite part is the ability to go nurse Oliver. As a mom who...
View ArticleHoliday Teacher Gifts
Holiday time is here, folks. I am sure this is no surprise. The surprise I usually get is when I am shopping for gifts and remember the teacher gifts at the last minute. I’m not proud of it because I ...
View ArticleStarting Babies on Solids and the Working Mom
For the last month & a half, I’ve added a disaster to our nightly routine. The babies mostly hate it. It makes a huge mess. It’s time consuming when I have no extra time. My husband usually isn’t...
View ArticleChoosing an In-Home Sitter Over a Preschool
A few weeks into working from home as a freelance writer, I began to see that the number of hours I was working from home weren’t realistic with my daughter’s schedule. My husband and I started to...
View ArticleHolidays in the Age of Pinterest
In the age of pinterest, blogging & Facebook bragging, it’s easy to get caught up in the holiday crafting spirit. And as a working mom of two 10 month olds, by caught up I mean left feeling...
View Article{No Longer} Struggling with Solids
Somehow in the last four months, Lucy & Zach went from struggling so much with solids that I wrote a post on it, spoke with our PA & pediatrician & was on the verge of sending Lucy &...
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