Being a working mom is tough, being away from your kids all day, it sucks. But yesterday I had my first "I HAVE to get to my kids moment." We were in a severe weather warning all afternoon and tornados were possible. Well I leave work at 4:30 and the sirens were just starting to go off, usually this means work makes us go into the shelter but I "hid" from the HR lady and snuck out when she couldn't see me.

My daycare is literally a minute away and I choose to be with my kids during the tornado in their in home daycare provider's basement than stuck at work knowing they were scared. We stayed there a good hour and 1/2 before I felt comfortable to leave and have my girls in the car, I don't' regret the "stern talk" I got this morning for leaving during severe weather.