One Secret to Working Mom Success: Be Flexible (A Lesson Learned From Traffic)

Me, making a cup of tea.With the beginning of the school year, it made sense to me to finally publish this post, which is way overdue.& An Old Post From the Archives Pittsburgh is a beautiful city that has three rivers running through, which means that it relies on bridges to make transportation work. For the past three weeks one bridge has been down and that has brought the city to its knees, especially working moms. Indeed, ever working mom I know, even the uber-organized ones who always look great and have smiling kids, have a story about how the closure of the Liberty Bridge has wreaked havoc on their lives. The problem is that the 55,000 people who would normally be traveling across the Liberty Bridge are dispersed throughout the city searching for a way to get to work and the city simply cannot accommodate that easily. This morning, my schedule was disrupted. I put my makeup on earlier than usual and planned to throw on a dress, get the baby ready and leave right after our daughter got on the bus. Well, the bus was 30 minutes late because of detours due to construction and the extra traffic...