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Full time mommy - full time work: About work life imbalance

It has been more than two months since I last posted on this blog - the reason for that is the crazy time I have been having - I moved houses, my husband moved to another city and suddenly I was left handling our baby, setting up home from scratch and holding down a very demanding job all by myself.  Idyllic thoughts of losing my pregnancy fat became an ever receding and unimportant dream. Or setting up an indoor garden and child proofing my home. I have barely been able to keep it all together. Work often pours in at odd hours - leaving me grappling a cranky baby while I rock her and pray that she falls off to sleep early so I can tear myself away to attack the ever mounting pile of work. But I am aware that I am not alone in this journey. Women all over the world through the ages continue to make this journey.  There are the successful women breaking glass ceilings - my Facebook feed seems to be full of these inspirational stories. And for each such woman there are the unsun...