Archive for February, 2013

Yahoo's youngest CEO and new mom, Marissa Mayer decided last week to discontinue all remote positions and eliminate flex time for employees.  Not only will all remote positions

I had a freak-out moment at work today.  I decided to look at the webpage of the elementary school where our daughter will be starting kindergarten in 6

As a working mother I find that I really want to make the most of the time I have with my children, both after work/school and on the

I literally became a mom overnight. Most women do, right? One day you’re pregnant, the next day you’ve got a newborn in your arms. That’s not exactly how

We've all heard the cliche - "There are only so many hours in a day."  Never is this more true than when it is said by a working

This week's featured working mom, Carole of Surf Momma, is no stranger to LWM. She's written three fabulous guest posts already. Back in July she told us all

Note: This is part 1 of a 2 part series about Isis and the working mom. Stay tuned for next week when we tackle pumping at work specifically! Going

When I began my freshman year in college in New York, I had one goal in mind; to live in the city and to make it as a

This is a true story. The other night, I went to the gym later than I had hoped to and I just didn’t feel like cooking. I picked

Liberated:  To set free, as from oppression, confinement, or foreign control. A few years ago, I learned about an alarming phenomenon from colleagues in the ‘biz’ of training daycare

For some reason, I seem to host Working With Style around festive occasions (my mom always tells me that “holidays” I think are holidays aren’t exactly holidays, so

If we're being honest, most people don't grow up thinking/hoping that one day they can wake up and take their child to daycare for 8-10 hours a day. 

I'm so excited to start up a featured working mom series. LWM is all about creating a community after all, so I'm grateful that each of these featured

I thrive on lists. I love making them. I always have. Shopping lists, to-do lists, grocery lists, packing lists, weekly schedule list. I love seeing it on paper

I have to admit, I always get the same awestruck response when I tell people I make money blogging. They can't seem to wrap their head around how

While I may not have a job like Brandy that helps provide {FREE!} educational tools for teachers, I like to think I have a pretty awesome job too. I'm

I feel like so much of how my day goes is dependent on how much sleep I get. And how much sleep I get is mostly determined by

Since my last WWS, the nursing mom edition, my style hasn't changed much. And even though Jenn's WWS post encouraged me to find the dresses in my closet,

Jennifer Owens had an interesting article on Huffington Post recently - "Give Yourself a Promotion: Why Mom's are the New Family CEO."  Within the post, Owens mentions that