Kimberly Adams

I was like, hey, do you mind if I drop Maxine off for a couple hours?

Like, I'll buy Dunkin' Donuts.

Brittany Croteau also lives in Baltimore.

Her five-year-old, Maxine, is in kindergarten.

Croteau needed to attend a big meeting without any distractions.

Her husband's been out of town, so she dropped off her daughter at a friend's house.

But you also don't want to overuse those things, right?

Croteau doesn't have family nearby.

That's shaped how she prepares for these kinds of situations.

including the decision to only have one kid.

We just kind of knew that this is what we would be in for, for the snow days, for spring break, for summer, right?

So we just have to be proactive and plan.

Come here.

You want to come say hi?

Gruto loves her job in special education, but she says parenting is her first priority.

Because we are replaceable, and I'm not replaceable at home.

There is new research that moms bear the brunt of interruptions on snow days.

A working paper by academics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

finds that if a place gets a lot of snow in a month, working moms miss, on average, about two days of work.

Researchers also believe that moms may self-sort into more flexible jobs, even if they pay less.