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The 5 Best Ways to Break Up with Busy and Make Some Guilt-Free Me Time

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Just dump the junk.

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You know the feeling. You pull into your parking space at work and realize the files you need for your morning presentation are still sitting on the kitchen table. Your child’s first Halloween school parade is the same time as a mandatory work meeting. After spending a small fortune on a family vacation, erupts before your flip-flops are on. It’s enough to make you want to fall headfirst into a big pile of unfolded laundry. Welcome to working mom reality. The rewards of parenting are abundantly rich, but sometimes a working mom needs a

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