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 MomLight was all.over.the.place and none of the designs presented to me ever quite felt right. So I scrapped the whole idea after the first round and decided I’d come back to all that sometime later.

(For the record, the design you’re seeing right now was done by me with Headway – which is a WordPress theme with a visual editor and is as easy to use as PowerPoint. This design took less than an hour – from scratch.  It’s definitely a work in progress, but I heart Headway.)

Back to my point here…. One great thing that came out of that process though was that I was asked to supply a list of sites whose designs I liked and sites that I might consider to be competition. I had a really hard time finding any sites like the one I was imagining – until I came across Carley Knobloch’s Mothercraft site. While Carley is a life coach, and I am not, it was the very essence of her site and her style that I immediately liked. So I put the link on my list, signed up for her newsletter so I could spy on her and then forgot all about it.

I’d get her email newsletters now and then. All were filled with smart tips for the whole motherhood thing, but I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the site.

Until.

Now.

Because NOW Carley has released her “Perfect Moms Finish Last” interview series. She has interviewed a whole bunch of smart, accomplished moms. Well-known women with successful businesses. Like Pamela Slim, Jane Buckingham, and more, more, more.  They talk about all the great things these women have accomplished, how they manage the whole motherhood/working thing and most importantly, they talk about how they are not perfect. The interviews are casual, but very well done. And OMG smart.  SMART.  It’s like talking with your new best friends over lunch, about everything you’re thinking about, except that you aren’t doing any of the talking.

I’m having such a good time listening to every single one of these interviews. I put them all onto one CD (you can do that in iTunes if you tell it to make a “MP3” cd…let me know if you need instructions….seriously, like 15 hours on one CD) and have the CD in my car.  I am *lucky* enough to have a longish commute so I’m getting to listen to these interviews while I’m coming and going. I also have them on my iPod and am listening while I work out. I’m totally immersed in Perfect Moms Finish Last interviews because they are THAT good.

As moms, we are so hard on ourselves. We compare ourselves to those “other” mothers who seem to have it all together and we beat ourselves up when we can’t get everything done. It’s refreshing to hear that there are super-successful women out there who manage to combine motherhood with a great career. The big theme I’m noticing with them all is that these woman have some pretty well-defined boundaries and they do NOT try to do IT ALL. They have carved out working arrangements that work with their lives, rather than doing it the other way around.

I could go on and on and on…but it’s better for you to head over to Perfect Moms Finish Last and download the interviews yourself. You will be so glad you did.

p.s. They are FREE!