WRAL: These are the Christmas gifts every working mom wants

Stephanie Llorente, owner of Restored, is a regular contributor to the WRAL-TV Go Ask Mom blog where she writes about relevant topics for working moms. We repost that content here.

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Thanksgiving is over, and it’s officially the most wonderful time of the year! At least, we want it to be. But, if you’re the one tasked with planning and executing all the family gifts, parties, travel and school holidays ON TOP OF your regular day job, the holiday season gets overwhelming…fast.

For everyone with a working mom on their Christmas shopping list, allow me to make your gift purchasing process super simple: All working moms want for Christmas this year is a break. That’s it. Nothing fancy. Nothing expensive. Just, a break.

Because, after two years of managing homes, schedules, work loads and mental loads in the midst of a pandemic, we’re just flat out exhausted. In fact, I surveyed my Instagram following and asked, “What is the best Christmas gift a working mom could receive?” Literally every response fell into three categories: time, experience and community.