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Working Mothers

Planning Your Family’s Dinner Menu

Wahm

This post was first published on January 23, 2009. At that time, I was still working full-time outside the home. I’ve found that planning a dinner menu is beneficial for anyone, though. As a working mother, I need shortcuts wherever I can get them. Dinner is often a challenge for us busy moms, and this [...]

Working Moms: How Do You Manage Housework?

Wahm

This post was first published on April 2, 2008. At that time, I was still working full-time outside the home. I’ve found that a cleaning schedule is also beneficial for the WAHM. As a full-time working mom, it’s very hard for me to keep up with the household duties. I’ve posted before about the expectations [...]

Daily Social Media Routine – Do You Have One?

social media

Facebook. Twitter. MySpace. Plurk. Identi.ca? With so many social media tools and networks out there, it’s hard not to get overwhelmed. How do you choose which to use? How do you keep up with them all? How much time will it take out of your already busy life? Through trial and error, I’ve developed a [...]

Working Mom Fun – The Super Mom Action Figure

viernes social

Since Fridays are all about fun here, for today’s Viernes Social, I wanted to share this fun SuperMom Action Figure I came across. Her “bio” begins with “Up at the crack of dawn and working long into the night, this heroine magically creates extra hours each day juggling kids, schedules, chores and career.” Sound familiar? [...]

Busy Moms and Dads! Use Your Smart Phone to Keep Up.

Wahm

If you’re a blogger and user of other social media applications, you know that it can sometimes be hard to keep up with everything. You’ve got blog posts to write, PR emails to answer, comments to keep up with, and a social media presence that needs to be constantly updated. Add all that to your [...]

Does Work-Life Balance Exist?

Wahm

Have you been thinking about what work-life balance means to you? Or even just balance in and of itself? Well, there are some people who think there is no such thing. The phrase work-life balance alone is contradictory in their eyes. I recently came across The myth of work/life balance, in which the author proposes [...]

Kristi Yamaguchi on Being a Working Mom

Wahm

Kristi Yamaguchi, US Olympic gold medalist, is featured in the February/March issue of Working Mother magazine. In her interview with Working Mother, Kristi Yamaguchi speaks on success, balancing her high-profile career and home, motherhood, and the lessons she’s learned. I thought it would be interesting to see how a celebrity mom handles work-life balance, especially [...]

5 Resources with Tips for Finding or Improving your Work-Life Balance

life

Today has been a very balanced day for me. I was able to work out this morning, did some client work, responded to a few emails, worked on this blog, and even put a load of laundry to wash. For me, that’s a great balance of taking care of myself, working, managing social media, and [...]