 Good Grief! |
Posted on 10/30/2006 8:50:30 AM PST by hsmomx3
gmta
see my post after yours
| Good Grief! |
I'm a stay-at-home mom of two boys, ages 6 and 3. The first time my husband had to take care of them 24-7 (I think I had taken a day for myself and went somewhere...don't remember) I came home to this: "I don't know how you do this all day." It wasn't a rebuff; he was in total awe of me. To this day it makes me giggle with glee!
Yep, when I come home from work every evening, my stay-at-home wife is always more exhausted than I am after chasing after our rambunctious 13-month-old boy all day. She's only too happy to announce that it's now "daddy time" and go disappear for a couple of hours while I play with Junior. We wouldn't have it any other way!
How 'inclusive'. Glad she's showing her colors, though.
Great minds think alike. lol!
"It wasn't a rebuff; he was in total awe of me. To this day it makes me giggle with glee!"
I know. Women who stay at home deserve honour for giving that extra personal attention to their children that really shows when they're older.
So it would be better to say you were sitting on your butt that whole time. Perhaps you could detail all of your management duties during that time period.
Heck, wbill jr. is still a toddler and it's showing now. We've been having conversations (What did you do with Grandma? 'Bubbles.' You blew bubbles? 'Uh-huh.') since he was about 14 months old. Of course, the first time I asked a question - not really expecting a response - and I got one, I nearly fell over.
Of course, I'm sure that I'm the ONLY parent on this board with a perfect child, who is also a genius. LOL! But, I still (correctly) attribute my son's perfection and massive intellect to the fact that my wife stays at home with him. My dad says that he might have good genese, but they still need to be nurtured and I totally agree with him.
IOW, some animals are more equal than others.
genese = genes. Ny son also is a better speller.
The REAL pity of this is that she did decide to go to work when the two older kids were in high school to help pay for college. The two older ones are proud graduates, doing well in life, just real great kids (well, young adults now!). The youngest one, though, has been nothing but problems since mom went to work. Drugs, drinking, skipping school, that sorta junk. He just finished basic training in the Army, and I'm anxious to speak to his folks to see how he's doing there. With any luck, the no-nonsense discipline of the service will be just what he needs to snap him back into being a human being again.
"a Prada socialist,'' saying people can still believe in fairness and justice "and still have fabulous accessories.''
Typical socialist/communist. Wanting everyone to be "equal", wearing the communist uniform, living on a commune, happily going to work in the government factory; but she wants to be more equal, wearing designer clothes, living the life of luxury, not having to work. Orwell was truly a visionary.
I think the following should be good enough for an application for any stressful job:
"I raised four kids at home and I am still sane enough to write this resume."
Besides, the world has it wrong, a peace negotiator shouldn't be some old man, it should be a mom who has spent the last 15 years keeping her kids from killing each other.
These stay-at-home moms should be out killing babies in abortion clinics rather than raising them at home!
I was a latch key kid from the age of nine. Not by choice, Dad got laid off in 1980 (Thanks Pres. Carter!!) and went back to school while Mom went to work. There were no problems, so when Dad got done with classes, Mom kept working. I suspect the extra income came in handy. No real problems resulted from it, other than the usual teenage angst.
IMHO, I'd call drinking and skipping school teen angst and file it under 'stupid things that I personally did, but will kill my kid for if I catch him doing it'. Drugs, on the other hand, are bad news. The service will take care of that in a hurry...not a whole lot of tolerance there for issues like that.
You don't want to work for any of those companies. You're not missing a thing.
Guess I'm a leech!
Just when you think it can't get any worse...
(I just deleted 2 stories I was going to tell--- too long, and the details are too depressing.)
But the bottom line is: there's always hope that the deluded unfaithful partner will come to his/her senses. If you can be patient --- maintain a tiny seed of hope that your husband will eventually wake up and say, "What an ass I am! God, what a cruel thing I've done to my wife."
Repentance sometimes happens. Reconciliation, by God's grace, sometimes happens.
What a hard, hard thing. I will pray for you.
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