Spit Up on My Blazer

workmom blogs
RSS feed icon Browse the topics @home and @work. Engage with leading bloggers who offer advice on family and career as well as share stories about our rich workmom experience. Share your comments.

engage!

Not a mom blogger?
Register for an account
blog directory

browse by

Recent Posts

Spit Up on My Blazer

Nothing puts life into perspective like the discovery of a white, crusty glob of dried milk and mucus on your black wool blazer…Writer, speaker and advocate, Rozalynn Goodwin is a health policy wonk and lobbyist for the SC Hospital Association. She resides in Columbia, SC with her husband, daughter and son. Connect with Rozalynn at www.spituponmyblazer.com.

I wonder why strangers feel compelled to try to help us young mothers when our child is “showing out” (Translation: throwing tantrums, having fits) in public places like grocery and department stores. As if our child diverting every single shopper’s attention away f ... Read more...
I’m searching in Life’s Lost and Found for something dear to me. Perhaps you can help. She’s a Black female, last seen around 2005 wearing high heel shoes one size smaller than the size she wears now (the same goes for other garments not to be named). She was ... Read more...
“How do you get any work done?” is a common question I’m asked when people hear I work from home two days a week. I could quickly give an answer when my daughter was only months old, sleeping 15 plus hours a day, and not crawling or walking.  She would o ... Read more...
Yeah. I lot has happened since I last shared my life with you. You guessed it. That’s Altima (pronounced “Al-teem-aa” in Southern). Totaled and gone to that big junk yard in the sky.  Well, actually she’s been torn apart with pieces of her body dispersed ... Read more...
Procrastination is a family holiday tradition, if you will. We put up our Christmas tree on Christmas Eve last year, for example. But this year, I vowed to do better, and there's nothing like a verbose five year-old daughter to help. "When are we going to put ... Read more...
...Or at least a WAHM. Anything but a WAWM (work at work mom--I just made that up). I make this statement having fully accepted that it may result in my name being crossed off the guest list for the Supermom Soiree that I assume occurs annually. I have not ye ... Read more...
I’ve been sitting in my car in this parking lot now for a long 53 seconds. Why can’t I leave? Ok. I’m leaving. Right after I check my phone to see what’s going on in Twitterville. I know. I know. I’m stalling. ... Read more...
LET'S GET READY TO RUMMMBLLE!!! In this corner: weighing in at 140 pounds, standing at slightly under 5'4"... She's a little tired from a long work week, but focused at the task at hand! It's Rozalynnnnnnn Goodwinnnnnn!!! And in this corner: weighi ... Read more...
 Everywhere I turn, people are complaining about the heat and voicing concern for those most vulnerable because of it.  Yes we all should be concerned about the elderly and animals during this heat wave, but we have failed to share the sa ... Read more...
I could not have chosen a more unpredictable and capricious time to be in health care policy with a new health care reform law and our Medicare and Medicaid programs consuming much of our tight federal and/or state budgets. Plus, I’m a lobbyist in one of the most pe ... Read more...
< previous next >