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One day you’re vice president of a Fortune 500 company, the next you have pureed peas in your hair. Such is the terrain mined by total 180!, a feisty and honest new magazine for moms–or “Chief Household Officers”–who have left work to care for their kids.

Their lives aren’t as magical as they’d imagined. “It’s just another day of running at Mach 3 with my hair on fire,” quips one writer who details a day in her life.

In another piece, a woman admits she parcels out sex based on how much her husband helps around the house. There’s wailing and rejoicing on these pages. Maybe these moms haven’t had a shower in two days, but they still wouldn’t pull out their briefcases. It’s $4.99 and sells at total180mag.com.