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07Feb

How She Does It by Britt Reints

This is the ninth entry in “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” a series of guest posts about the working mom/stay-at-home dilemma. It’s written by Britt Reints from a wonderful blog called In Pursuit of Happiness. Britt is also a freelance writer who writes about traveling around the country with her family in an RV. I met Britt last summer at BlogHer and it was one of those IRL connections that I cherish. When Holly first emailed me and asked if I wanted to participate in this series, my first thought was that I was woefully unqualified to discuss Read More

02Feb

The Mom Juggle by Charlene

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This is the eighth entry in “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” a series of guest posts about the working mom/stay-at-home dilemma. It’s written by Charlene from CharleneChronicles.com . After writing laws for 15 years, Charlene now blogs about whatever she wants; specifically, fabulous things like technology, travel, social media, fashion and fitness at CharleneChronicles.com. She runs a local Mom group called Metrowest Mamas and spends time on Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest. Charlene occasionally steps away from the computer so she can experience the Read More

26Jan

How Do I Do it ALL? by Holly Pavlika

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This is the seventh entry in “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” a series of guest posts about the working mom/stay-at-home dilemma. It’s written by Holly Pavika, a dear friend and an award-winning creative marketing industry veteran and was recently the Managing Director of Big Fuel, the nation's largest pure play social media agency. Taking her social media expertise and with particular knowledge of moms and women-focused marketing, she has recently moved over to lead MOMentum as President, of this marketing subsidiary of Big Fuel. MOMentum connects Read More

23Jan

Women and Success – The Heidi Klum Effect by Elissa Freeman

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This is the sixth entry in “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” a series of guest posts about the working mom/stay-at-home dilemma. It’s written by Elissa Freeman, the Vice President, Communications & Public Relations for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her extremely tolerant husband and precocious 11 year old daughter. She refuses to believe there is such a thing as work-life balance and prefers to liver her life one moment at a time - as long as her carpool doesn't fall apart. You can chat with Elissa Read More

21Jan

My Life Works, but my Feelings About It Don’t by Emily Paster

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This is the fifth entry in “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” a series of guest posts about the working mom/stay-at-home dilemma. It’s written by Emily Paster, editor and founder of WestoftheLoop.com. Emily, a mother of two, teaches legal writing at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago. She writes about parenting, cooking and the struggle to stay cool in the suburbs at her blog West of the Loop. Emily is another blogger that I loved as soon as we met at BlogHer last summer, and she is someone I look up to. She tweeted recently that writing Read More

19Jan

I Don’t Know How She Does It, Either by Shari Simpson

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This is the fourth entry in “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” a series of guest posts about the working mom/stay-at-home dilemma. It’s written by Shari Simpson, the co-writer of the comedy “Maybe Baby, It’s You” , (Dramatic Publishing, Inc.) and the non-dizzy redhead behind the blog “Earth Mother just means I’m dusty.” She is also the editor of Mommy Poppins NJ and writes a weekly humor column for Aiming Low. Shari won a 2006 Telly Award in the “Social Issues” category for her short film script “Positive Choice” and writes for the HOPE Worldwide Read More

05Jan

Unbalance by Ann Imig

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This is the first entry in my new series "I Don't Know How She Does It," written by Ann Imig, a stay-at-home humorist and the National Director of Listen to Your Mother (LTYM). In some overwhelmed moments, I still wish I could just be content with the privilege of affording to stay home raising my kids. I wish that the business of mothering could fulfill me completely, because my five and seven-year-old boys' baby days are bygone, and their childhoods feel fleeting. I already have to bribe my boys for hugs. Kisses are completely off-limits. Read More

04Jan

Kicking Off a New Series: I Don’t Know How She Does It

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There’s a heck of a lot to project manage when you’re a mom and I’ll be the first to vouch for that. Combine everything you have to do for the family at home with work and you have a recipe for chaos. But I’m not necessarily knocking this chaos. Just a year ago, I wrote “To Work or Not to Work” over at ScaryMommy.com where I voiced my regret about leaving my full time job when my first child was born. That post garnered 90 comments, and I loved reading every single one. Most women applauded my honesty and some knocked for me not enjoying my time at Read More

12Sep

From One Mom to Another: Take a Break

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I've got a friend who has three children and is a SAHM. She's 100% devoted to her children and does everything for them 24/7. She's a marvelous mother but sometimes I wonder, how does she never take a break and take some time to herself? She's always worried about leaving all the onus on her husband and she feels a tremendous amount of guilt even thinking about spending time on her own. Me? I felt like that when my children were very small, but not now. When my daughter was born, I breastfed her for a year, and for a good part of that time, I Read More

09Feb

I miss the juggling

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When I was pregnant with my first child, I never thought I would give up my job. Not only did I love it, but I worked with great people and had great perks. I wanted to do my best to make it all work. My company moved to New Jersey while I was pregnant and I thought, okay, I'd just deal with the commute from Westchester to New Jersey, no problem.My maternity leave came and went. Ten weeks seemed like such a short time. Around week seven, I started to look for a babysitter. Time ran away from me. My first day back Read More