Consider for a moment this excerpt from the October 2009 PEW Report titled “The Harried Life of the Working Mother”: Women now make up almost half of the U.S. labor force, up from 38% in 1970. This nearly forty-year trend has been fueled by a broad public consensus about the changing role of women in [...]
You may remember the Rainbow Brite dolls from years past. These wholesome dolls are being relaunched and should be available at Target and Toys R Us very soon. I’ve got FIVE Rainbow Brite activity CDs to give away, so the first 5 people to leave a comment (make sure to fill in your email address [...]
When I was pregnant with my first child in 1992, I was put on bedrest at 36 weeks for pregnancy-induced-hypertension. I was working for a company that did not offer any kind of maternity benefits, so my time on bedrest and my entire maternity leave was unpaid time. This was a huge bummer, especially considering [...]
The last year and a half of my life has been crazy busy. I’ve gone back to work full-time, after six years at home, my husband has changed jobs (from a super flexible job to a less flexible one) and on and on. It’s been hectic – way more hectic than I am comfortable with [...]
I’ve been a parent for almost 18 years now and from the absolute get-go, the whole idea of combining a job and motherhood has made my head hurt. It’s not that I do not like working. I actually do really enjoy a lot about working — most especially the simple act of doing Great Work. [...]
I’m especially interested in all things art. My mother was an artist and my oldest child is soon to be a student at a top art school. And while I’m not an artist by trade, I have been surrounded by enough art in my lifetime to have developed something of an artist’s eye and can [...]
Back in January 1992, I was camped out on the couch, big and pregnant, on bedrest with dangerously high blood pressure and an attractive case of cankles. I worried non-stop for four solid weeks as I waited for that baby to be born – hoping she was ok, hoping I was ok, wondering how we’d [...]
is that she takes nice photos of her siblings…. Princess Caitlyn on the Couch
I just love it when I find Great Stuff on the internet. Back in May when I was first starting this blog, I hired a web designer to come up with a super-snazzy design. I thought for sure that a super-snazzy design would magically bring my mish-mash of ideas together. Turns out my vision for [...]
I have the amazing fortune to have an exceptionally gifted artist as a child. I get to call her a child for a few more weeks only because she will soon be 18. We spent most of today at a series of college portfolio reviews, and she received glowing reviews. The college rep from SAIC [...]
