Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Working Mom Blues
I recently found a new blog that I have been reading called "Mom 101" and I really enjoy it. This post especially got to me. It is definitely hard to be a working mom. I went to a Mommy Track'd conference in San Francisco last week and really enjoyed it. It had a roomful of 500 working moms. It was nice to be around women who are in the same boat. However, a lot of them can afford nannies and au pairs. To me, it doesn't matter what kind of sitter you have. That isn't the point. No sitter or nanny or au pair can take the place of a real-live-honest-to-goodness mommy. Sigh....
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That's exactly why I stayed home with my kids. It's not easy living on one income, but I couldn't fathom letting someone else see all of my kids' "firsts" and I wanted to be the main person to influence them. So, I stayed home. Part of me would like to at least have been around adults a bit more -- staying home is just not something people do, around here, unless they're married to doctors. But, it's over now . . . and I'm happy with my choice.
I'm sorry, Amy.
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