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Business Attire for the Working Mom 1

Business Attire for the Working Mom

2017-03-26
By: Live by Surprise
On: March 26, 2017
In: Motherhood, Parenting
With: 3 Comments

The one thing about being a working mother is—no matter how hard you try to leave the house without some bit of something on your clothing, you can’t. It must be some weird physics thing—there’s like a vortex or something from the moment you put on new clean clothes. Oh,Continue Reading

What's that Spot?  Business Attire for the Working Mom 1

What’s that Spot? Business Attire for the Working Mom

2015-08-27
By: Live by Surprise
On: August 27, 2015
In: Featured Posts, Motherhood, Parenting, Sammiches and Psych Meds
With: 0 Comments

As a working mom, I often leave the house with crumbs, stains, hand prints and even bodily fluids on my clothing. It’s taken a while to get used to the ick…but sometimes my co-workers have trouble with it. I’m at Sammiches and Psych Meds today discussing how to handle “workContinue Reading

6 Steps to Make More Time for Blogging

6 Steps to Make More Time for Blogging

2014-10-02
By: Live by Surprise
On: October 2, 2014
In: Blogging
With: 0 Comments

I’ll admit it…mothering three kids and holding down a full time job and keeping up a blog is a bit more of a struggle then I’d anticipated.  My blog is suffering.  I’ve still got great ideas – but I have a new director who is offering me new opportunities (yes…that’sContinue Reading

Back to Work - A New Chapter Begins

Back to Work – A New Chapter Begins

2014-09-04
By: Live by Surprise
On: September 4, 2014
In: Motherhood, Parenting
With: 1 Comment

Well…it’s been a nice run. I’ve been very lucky to have a kind employer who was willing to allow me over one year unpaid leave after the birth of my third child. Two summers home with my kids. For the first time ever, a whole year to wait at theContinue Reading

Lola's books

Doctor Who: The Forgotten
Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2, Volume 2
Doctor Who Classics, Vol. 1
Doctor Who: The Eyeless
Chronic Profit: Building Your Small Business While Managing Persistent Pain
Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion
The Other Emily
Tracing Your Ancestors in Lunatic Asylums: A Guide for Family Historians
Memories of Tomorrow
The Mercy of Snakes
Red Rain
The Praying Mantis Bride
Photographing the Dead
In the Heart of the Fire
The Painted Girls
The Other Typist
The Woman Who Stole My Life
Great Shape Hunt, The
Zoe's First Book of Seasons
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey Issue #0


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