It’s official: women are sick of waiting for prince charming. 66% of women in a Pew Research Center study place higher importance on being self-rescuing princesses than Sleeping Beauties. 66% of women ages 18-34 responded by stating that being successful in a high-paying career or profession is “one of the most important things” or “very important” in their lives […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Let’s Get Real’ category
I Shop at Goodwill
Actually it’s even worse than that. My mother shops at Goodwill for me. And only on 50% off days. And only when she can get her senior discount. I really hate clothes shopping. I think it’s a hold over from my days at Catholic school. I mean who really needs more than two plaid jumpers, five […] Read more…
The F**ked Up Things We Say To Our Kids
I’ve always thought of myself as feminist. I consider myself a strong, independent woman. So I’m not quite sure what possessed me to say to my son in response to his request for help with his video game that: “girls don’t play video games. You’ll have to wait until your father gets home for help.” […] Read more…
Big Girls Do Cry (just when no one is looking)
When was the last time you had yourself a good cry? As working mums we don’t get to do that too often. Pretty much the last thing in the world any of us want to do is lose our shit at the office and validate any mushy female stereotypes we’ve spent years trying to destroy. The only thing we […] Read more…
Calling Donna Reed!
I apologize to everyone in advance because I am not a techie. But this clip from YouTube (which for the longest time I thought was spelled “utube”) is so awesome I had to face my fear and give embedded URLing a try: The World According to Bernadette In this clip from “The Big Bang Theory” (which if you […] Read more…
Family, Inc.
As working moms we juggle a HUGE amount on a daily basis: clients, meetings, making lunches, dropping off at school, picking up from basketball, doing the laundry, mopping the floors. The list seems literally endless. And somehow we all manage through. But that is just it! We shouldn’t just be “managing” through. I’m incredibly guilty of […] Read more…
Which is most likely to be broken: New Year’s Resolutions or Waterford Crystal in the hands of your three -year-old?
My favorite quote of the year so far was uttered by my friend January second. At a 7 a.m. meeting she plopped down on the seat next to me and declared: “It’s only been two days and I’ve already broken four of my New Year’s resolutions.” Actually it was a tie between that quote and […] Read more…
No love during the holidays
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…