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Wendy Dailey is a full time working mom of preschooler Maggie and has been married to husband Rocky for 6 years. She works at integrated healthcare system, the Billings Clinic, in Billings MT as an HR Generalist.
In my last post, I talked about, probably ranted about a bit, maternity leave and how am I hoping to work at home some after my medical leave is over.  I had the talk today with my manager and VP.  While it is not completely unheard of at my work (people h ... Read more...
My original plan for blogging on Working Mother was to blog about pregnancy and the working mom, and those challenges that come along.  Well, that was last June when I started and unfortunately, we lost that pregnancy.  I blogged a bit more, but when I fou ... Read more...
Why does guilt rear its ugly head in so many different ways?  A few weeks ago, I went along to a field trip to the fire station with my daughter's preschool class.  While I enjoyed seeing her in her element, I felt a couple of different kinds of guilt: 1. ... Read more...
when your child develops an interest in something you do not enjoy?  or like?  or even thought you could tolerate??  As a mother, we apparently have to learn to tolerate it, at least enough to stand behind the camera to take a photo or video of your c ... Read more...
The newest member of our family came home last Friday afternoon.  Prior to the last pregnancy, my husband and I discussed getting a 2nd dog to replace our Nala, our sweet Alaskan Malamute who passed away March 2008.  We decided immediately after her passin ... Read more...
We spent last weekend in a resort in the Wisconsin Dells with my husband's family -- well, most of it: 33 members!  It was nice to reconnect with the extended family and Maggie had a blast playing with her cousins.  She was very very sad to say goodbye to ... Read more...
Growing up the in the 80s, the buzz-word for parenting seemed to be quality time over quantity time.  The idea was/is that it is much more important how you spend time with your children, rather than just how much time you spend with your children.  I ... Read more...
This weekend as I was enjoying my Sunday Paper, the headline in the Parade Magazine caught my attention: The New Push for Quality Child Care.  We just received notice f ... Read more...
As I anticipate jumping back on the pregnancy wagon, I am also watching changes to my company's benefits very closely -- and working in HR, I have a front row seat.  For many years, and like many other companies, my company spent pretty much every dollar that c ... Read more...
A few weeks ago, I started looking for books to ready about miscarriage.  I didn't find a lot, especially books on just miscarriage.  There are many books that include miscarriage in with stillbirth and infant death.  While all deal with the loss of a ... Read more...
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