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This just made my day!! I am a stay at home mom, and have friends who do not have children. Sometimes I feel like I live in a different world then them! My best friend still does not have children , and sometimes makes me feel like her life is so much more important then mine!! It drives me nuts!
Thanks for the boost!

Thank you!!! That idiot woman in Tacoma is either the stupidest person in the world or the most selfish! Oh, wait…she’s both! To even insinuate that a stay at home mom doesn’t do anything but uses her kids as an excuse to take it easy and relax knows NOTHING about raising kids! And she can’t pull her head out of her butt long enough to even try to understand! I work and I wish I could stay at home with my son! But even in the evenings and on weekends I can’t manage to get much done and I really don’t mind! I love him and I think it’s funny how much my husband and I used to do before he was born and how I thought I’d really miss it, but I don’t! I had to stay home with him the other day because he was sick and I didn’t even have the time to shower…no child-less woman could understand that! Thank you Carolyn for setting that poor excuse for a friend in her place! 🙂

This is perfect. I have 3 kids and 2 are homeschooled. I also work part time. I love it when people tell me how easy it is. Or when people (my mom) come home and wonder why dinner isn’t on the table at 4 pm. Thank you so much for sticking up for mom’s. It’s just as much a job and just as much work without the sick time and vacation time. (But far more rewarding).

that’s gotta be a wind up, is anyone that stupid?

Beautiful!

Nope. Not buying it.

I’m married to a wonderful woman who decided to stay at home when our child was born. I have heard first hand how taxing and busy a week can be with a little one in tow.

However, I’ve taken some days on myself when she’s been away for the whole day / weekend. Yes, you’re busy. But you’re no busier than jobs I’ve had as a manual labourer. Or as a short order cook. Or in an office environment.

There’s time to watch tv. Time for a nap if you wish. Try doing that working at the meat packing company! Strangely, there’s also enough time for an email, a phone call, some facebook, ad nauseum.

Now, I do understand what you give up when staying at home. There’s much less adult interaction. There’s less problem solving and mental exercise. These are not my words. They’re hers.

Now that the little one is a little older and my wife is back in the corporate world, she laments giving up the old stay-at-home days. The stress at the office is so much greater, she says. She wanted to go back to work because it would be easier, she thought.

Be careful what you wish for, she now warns.

This pumped the blood a little too fast for me, but yes, it was right on and a triumphant moment for those of us who actually care about our own children.

I would continue, but I know I’ll rant.

I have to say that I am a single mother of a boy and a girl who are incredibly active children(toddlers) and who are only 13 months apart. I work full time (45+) hours per week, keep my house decently clean, do laundry, clean dishes, cook, daycare, playdates and grocery shopping and I am still able to squeeze in that weekly or twice a week phone call to my best friends. It is on rare occassions that I am able to find a sitter, I can actually go out for drinks or even have the friends come over after the kids have gone to bed. Doesn’t happen often but it does happen. I think that if Tacoma really wanted to keep her friendship THAT active, pehaps she could try to help or offer to accompany to the grocery store or come for dinner some time…. make the effort. Just because she doesn’t have kids doesn’t mean that her friends with kids have to ditch them in order to spend time with her.