Working Mother

10 Things I Refuse to Do as a Working Mother

Nicole Beniamini
  1. Use Pinterest to plan my children’s parties.

Courtesy of Nicole Beiamini

As a working mother, I am constantly creating lists and spreadsheets for all my household and workplace tasks. And even though my Type-A personality finds major fulfillment in creating and completing these lists, I often feel overwhelmed by all the things I am supposed to do. So in addition to my evil-but-necessary to-do lists, I started writing myself a to-don’t list, a checklist of sorts to give myself a mental break from my crazy, demanding life.

1. Use Pinterest to plan my children’s parties.

I extend this to anything involving kids or meals. Pinterest has a sneaky

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