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The Working Mommy's Manual

By Nicole Corning
I confess I am a workaholic who fiercely loves my family, friends and two rescue dogs. I stuggle to find the balance between all of this and though it's really hard it's also REALLY hilarious! I am brutally honest about this adventure we call being a working mom. Through my honesty I hope to empower and inspire women to believe that they can do this.
Maybe it's because I was raised by hippies.  Learning protest songs before nursery rhymes must have had some deep and lasting impression on my psyche. But no matter how much I rebelled against my parents (and believe me they still question i ... Read more...
I hate lifting weights. Between my weak arms, the intimidating steroid pit at my gym, and you know the part where I actually have to lift the weights it just sends me over the edge. Luckily, my gym has a barbels class that I attend religiously (like lapsed-Catholi ... Read more...
A bear got poked last Monday and it was pretty much the last straw. And folks should be on high alert because this bear is no garden variety grizzly - this bear eats grizzlies for breakfast. I'm talking about Mama Bears. We got poked and now we are angry. Okay ... Read more...
We’ve had houseguests for three weeks,  I just worked about a sixty hour week  - culminating in a one hour appointment that lasted four hours Friday afternoon (ugh) which means I finally got home around 7:30 ... Read more...
Spring in Arizona is a slice of Eden. The weather is perfect, the Sonoran desert is in full bloom, and there's not a cloud in the sky. So what person with half a mind and relatives in Arizona wouldn't come for their own lovely spring break? We are lucky enough th ... Read more...
As a professional, when I got pregnant I realized for the first time that this playing field we call life isn't equal after all. It was a nasty lesson to learn - especially when all I wanted to do was be psyched about being a new mom. Instead I found myself having ... Read more...
Let's be clear that I am writing this post at 9:30 on a Sunday morning and I am totally blowing off church. Yes I am a sinner. A sinner raised by an atheist mother and a father who believes life after death is one long dirt nap. Interestingly enough it was my n ... Read more...
Holidays send me over the edge. And not because I am known to be shopping for presents on Christmas Eve (truly I work best under pressure) but because as a mother to two young children every holiday requires that I make a sad clown attempt at being crafty. The cu ... Read more...
We've all had bad break ups.  The crying, the eating of ice cream, the refusal to eat because you're sick to your stomach, the guilt, the "What's wrong with me?" stage, the grief, and finally the slow crawl towards healing which can be derailed at any moment by ... Read more...
Politics, like most everything else in life, is made to seem way more complicated than it actually is. Mostly because if we just realized our nation's capital is full of mean eight grade girls and brilliant nerds who still carry grudges against the "Big Man On Camp ... Read more...