One Secret to Success as a Working Mom: Remember Kids Will Be Kids

At Atria's I have SO many incomplete blog posts that it's laughable. They're incomplete because I'll start writing them and then life happens. They're incomplete because in between my inspiration for the post and editing it, I realized that I had a sponsored post to complete. They're incomplete because some national event took precedence. They're incomplete because I realized that we needed milk, eggs, or some other essential and I just forgot about it. There are so many explanations about why they're incomplete that I could devote an entire series of posts to that. Instead, I'd like to share a post from several years ago about how my kids messed up my grandmother's birthday dinner...

A Peek Into the Life of a Working Mom: Motherhood The Naked Truth



The effort is takes to succeed as a working mom is extreme. We have two full time jobs and it's hard to succeed at both. However, succeeding is possible with planning and flexibility. I have an example of that last week before we moved in with my parents...


Creativity is required for working moms trying to do it all.


I wanted to cook dinner when I got home and I did. However, I never made it upstairs to change my clothes though. Instead, I took clothes off and spent most of the night in my camisole and underwear. I took my clothes off to to breastfeed because the baby is known to spit up and we're on a budget. So, I took off my clothes to try to avoid an unnecessary dry cleaning bill. After breastfeeding, I cooked dinner and got the kids ready for their baths, bathed them, and happened to look in the mirror. It was only then that I realized that I had been scantily clad for most of the evening.

I don't share this to be salacious. Indeed, there's no 50 Shades of Grey ending. My husband wasn't even home.

I share this to be real. Having it all ain't necessarily glamorous.  All of the photos of working moms has a woman fully made up wearing Diane Von Furstenberg and Louboutins. Considering how hard we're all working these days, I think even those women wind up making dinner in their underwear. However, their's might be La Perla.

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