While other eager new associates were hustling to impress the partners, I was trying to figure out how to tell them I was pregnant with my second child and that after my maternity leave I wanted to work part-time.

 It gets easier. You worked hard to get where you are professionally. You will have to work hard to get to where you want to be as a mom.

Beyond the stress and difficulty of answering the question, “Who will take care of my baby when I go back to work?”, the real question for me was, “Why can’t I care for my baby?”

When another mom lets her guard down around me; when she lets me see her messy house, it is one of the sincerest forms of flattery.

You busy? I’m busy! We’re all SO busy. We, the relay team, save our real conversations for friends and family. 

The longer I'm a mother, the more I realize that my children really are paying attention to the things I do and say about myself.

I Want Her Job is a website designed as an online resource for women to ask career-related questions of professional women in their interested fields.

I want to share with you some of my truths as a stay-at-home mom. They might relieve your aching heart a bit.

Joy. The cutest little word is often the hardest to find.

Guilt creeps into my mind almost every day. Sometimes it’s sudden and prevalent; sometimes it’s subtle and unnoticeable. Nonetheless, it’s there, daily—hovering over my mind, and momentarily crumbling my role as wife, mother, and caretaker into pieces.