I had to laugh when thinking about what the stats would be if I used the wardrobe ap Anandi uses. I am VERY casual when working from home so my nursing tanks, joggers, and sweatshirts would show up as being worn an embarrassing number of times!

@ARC – a really good toddler daycare is an amazing place. A “baby prison” it is not.

Hah! For us, it was a fear of daycare and some false ideas we had in our heads about it. Also, probably more than 50% of my female friends quit when they had kids, maybe more. I didn’t have a lot of close friends who were working moms with little kids at the same time. We only did that crazy arrangement for about 5 months, then my husband switched jobs to a company who at the time did not even consider any kind of flexible work (rhymes with Oogle). We were “forced” to send her to daycare, and I’m SO GLAD. Toddler daycare was an amazing experience for her, and we loved it enough that I ended up going back to work earlier than expected after our 2nd kid because I wanted her to have that experience too. (And for that extrovert kid it was 100% the right idea.)

@ARC – I don’t recommend it either! But it’s surprising how many people describe similar arrangements to me as evidence that they are “good” at time management…

Yay, glad you liked it. I figure someone should benefit from my mistakes 😀 I can’t stress enough how much I WOULD NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS try that split schedule childcare arrangement we had for my daughter’s first year. I’m surprised we survived it. I have never been so tired in my life.

@KGC- we are very open to having listeners on as guests! I’m glad people enjoyed this one.

@Alyce – we are big fans of “normal” extraordinary people and love to feature whenever possible!

Could not agree more with Alyce and Cb. I wouldn’t have been able to articulate why I liked this so much but seeing it written out was an ah-ha moment. I also enjoy the other more ‘famous’ guests but I wonder if a ‘listener spotlight’ every so often would appeal, too – just hearing about how other people have navigated their lives (and maybe applied some of the lessons from BOBW?).

Yes, definitely, and it’s something you don’t always get elsewhere. Like I like Eve Rodsky and think she’s really interesting, but I’ve heard the blueberries story in a million places. The tactics of ordinary people , particularly those with more “normal” careers as case studies is often more helpful.