5 weeks ago, give or take, my husband of 14 years was arrested for DUI with a blood alcohol level of .27. That is 3 times the legal limit. That is really f’ing drunk. He called at 3:30 in the morning. I didn’t hear the phone ring. (I don’t regret that, even if I had heard it ring, I wouldn’t have done anything. I saw it as his mess he made, his mess to clean up.) No one was hurt. Not physically anyway. But we were both devastated. 5 weeks later, we still are.

"Mom, ya know, what could be a better mother's day than this? A nice head massage, a bath, someone washing your hair....." I laughed to myself. My daughter was saying this to me, as I washed her hair, having just spent more than an hour "massaging" oil into her scalp to pick out absolutely countless head lice and nit sacks. (This, in case you were wondering, is the genesis of the phrase nit picking - finding itty bitty little things and meticulously harping on them.) Yes, a massage and new-do would indeed be a fabulous mother's day!

Mother's Day is on Sunday. In honor of the day, I sent out a query mompreneurs asking for their insight on how being a mother makes them better in business, and how running a business makes them a better mother. I had more than 200 responses in less than 24 hours. Seems that we, the working mothers of the world, have a lot to say on the matter.

1943 Guide To Hiring Women Wanna see how far we've come when it comes to women in the workplace? My friend Kate just forwarded around a clipping from a 2007 issue of Savvy & Sage Magazine (which doesn't have a working website with articles, or I would link to it) in which they reprinted a 1943 Article on how to hire women that ran in Transportation Magazine. For your reading pleasure, with no commentary from me because there's really nothing to add. Priceless.

I was watching the Today Show this morning (a lingering habit as a result of my days in PR) and they did a story called Moms Turn Dreams Into Dough. It was a reasonably good piece about moms who have started businesses and are successfully growing and running them such that they "got to" quit their "day jobs" and pursue their "dreams" full time. (Had to put that in quotes, just because I don't ever hear people talking about male entrepreneurs in such warm and fuzzy ways. Guys have ideas that they turn into businesses.