From the article: You Know You're a Working Mom When ...
You open your briefcase and a pacifier falls out. You can participate in a conference call from the sidelines of a middle school soccer game. These are moments that only working moms experience. Please contribute your own experiences and stories -- whether funny, poignant or timeless -- that remind you that you're a working mom. Finish the Sentence
You know you're a working mom when...
- Your 4 year old daughter pretends to pump breast milk and freeze it for her baby dolls before dashing off to "work..."
- —Guest Heidi isenberg-Feig
You know you're a working mom when...
- Your call your time spent commuting back and forth to work "me time."
- —melphipps
The Missing Piece
- You open a client file and find the missing piece to the Little Einstein puzzle and think "Finally!"
- —rcfayed
You know you're a working mom when...
- ...at a meeting in another office, you ask your colleague where you can find the "potty."
- —Guest Rachel
You know you're a working mom when...
- you feel guilty when you're not at work and equally guilty when you're not at home.
- —Guest PT-LawMom
you're getting dressed for work
- you find a collection of acorns and seeds in your dress shoes and the pockets of your suit jacket.
- —Guest mom of toddler
You Look in the Office Bathroom Mirror
- And realize there's dried spit up on your sweater and you still have a Dora sticker on your cheek.
- —Guest maisey
You know you're a working mom when...
- Racing to the post office, dry cleaners, bank and grocery store on your lunch hour feels luxurious because you don't have a tantrum-throwing five year-old in tow.
- —Guest Meagan
baby knows you're working in the womb
- My yet-2-b-born daughter somehow hardly ever moves when I'm at work, no matter what I eat, but senses the end of the day and throws a party in my womb on our walk to the car!!
- —Guest Charmaine
Agony of working mother
- wake up in the morning..get dressed..head towards office leaving the child behind sleeping...
- —Guest Farah Naz Kabir
when going to sleepy
- you are in your work sleepy when your kids are sick
- —Guest thelma caritativo
You know you're a working mom when...
- your 2 year old says "mom, you work, work, work" or when she turns 3 and says, "mom don't check your email" when you happened to pass the home office to get your shoes to go the park like you promised but think about making a quick detour to the computer in the office. Or when you step out of the office to go the kitchen to get something to drink and your child asks, "are you done now?"
- —Guest jhall
Time Management
- you're willing to come in early, even if it means getting up at 5:00 a.m., but you leave every day at 5 on the dot because you know there are two little boys in daycare who can't wait a minute longer for you to get there and hug them.
- —Guest Jessica
Bringing home work
- You try to clean up your daughter's room, and she tells you not to touch her 'work stuff' on her desk
- —Guest Lucianna
Office equipment
- you automatically undo the car seat and take it out of the car when your husband drops you off at work ---- with the baby still in it!
- —Guest Kelley
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