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
You know you're a working mom when...
- ...you're doing work-related interviews in a hospital ER waiting room in a whisper while waiting to see a doctor because your 2-year old stuck a Lego piece in her nostril. ...you open your purse to see a pair of pink pull-ups along with your keys and wallet ...your iPhone screen has vague stains of dried milk fingerprints ...you're always rushing to work at 7 after dropping the little ones off at day care, then rushing out at 4 to pick her up
- —Guest KiT
You Know You're A Working Mom When...
- You go to a parent-teacher conference in a full pantsuit, suit-boots with 3 inch heels, and be-jeweled, and have to fold up your suited body on a little kindergarten chair for the meeting with the teacher.
- —RebeccaBomann
You Know You're a Working Mom When...
- You encourage your 11-year old son to get a logo, business cards, and personalized thank you notes for his dog-sitting business.
- —RebeccaBomann
You Know You're A Working Mom When...
- Scrubbing your floors with music playing while the kids are asleep feels like a luxurious getaway of personal time!
- —RebeccaBomann
You give up on your teeth
- You have so little free time that instead of calling to make a dentist appointment, you just resign yourself to losing a few teeth.
- —Guest new_at_this
Sleep
- When getting up at 7am is considered sleeping in and your actually excited!
- —Guest Avory
Talk
- Everything you say is slow and clear and in the simplest words then suddenly you realize your speaking to your co workers and not your children.
- —Guest Sarah
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