WorkAtHomeMum
WorkAtHomeMum is a freelance marketing consultant who works with WorkingMums.co.uk. She has started a blog to write about taking the plunge into the world of freelance, and school runs, after 9 years working for a media and events company. She has one daughter age 4.
Hobbling into Summer
I had forgotten that I am not a natural when it comes to pregnancy. Well, obviously it is natural, but I am definitely not one of those women who can swan around “loving being pregnant”, all earth mother and glowy. I am more of the moany, spotty and achy type. Read more...
Big Bellies
So it has been a long time since I last blogged, and life has taken a sudden turn. I am 26 weeks pregnant with number 2, and work seems to have suddenly gone crazy! Read more...
Back to work
So while the rest of the country seem to be starting their Easter holidays, we have just finished ours so it is back to work chez WAHM. Read more...
Half term is here again
Holidays already! Seems to me like Christmas is barely passed and suddenly there is another holiday again. Read more...
Not becoming a "hoodie"
This week on our facebook working mums group (join us by the way!) we have been commenting on a piece in the Mirror by Fiona Philips. She was discussing the proposals by the government to offer more money to stay at home mums.... Read more...
Crawling into 2008
Does anyone else feel MORE exhausted after a couple of weeks off work? I'm sure many of you do - but probably because you have been worked off your feet cooking, cleaning and entertaining. Read more...
Make-up on the train
The beauty of working at home is that I can return to the grunge roots of my late teens; wearing a woolly hat, scruffy jeans, my partners large and comfy jumper - and not bothering at all about the state of my hair or face. Lovely!
However, being thirty-something I don't think it is fair to inflict this image on a wider audience at the office. But grooming hair, clothing and face is yet another thing to fit in to an already rushed morning routine! Like yesterday, little one ended up crying about something or other, and the 6.5 minutes I would have spent painting my face to represent something more than a mid-life crisis was instead spent sitting hugging, soothing and reassuring.
So i did my make-up on on the train. Not the first time, won't be the last, and actually I don't mind doing that (have become quite the expert since having a child!). I have chosen to ignore all the disapproving looks (mainly from men) who might think it tacky. I reckon they would be more frightened if they had to look at me make-up free!!
Good news for working mums
I have been spending a lot of time on the internet this week, supposedly to Christmas shop, but in reality just getting distracted and generally browsing. Read more...
The pain of rejection
No, not rejection from jobs applied for but a different sort entirely. Read more...
Working mother needs less clutter!
Where does it all come from? All the random stuff which has accumulated in the house over the past 5 years? When we moved in it was lovely, all minimalist, hardly anything at all. And then, in what seemed like the blink of an eye, there was clutter and junk everywhere!!!! Read more...
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