How do you do it?

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Registered: 12-07-2003
How do you do it?
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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 8:31pm
I hope I don't start a big controversy, but this is a debate board right?

I just have to ask those working moms....How do you do it?????

I am a Step-mom to two boys ages 6 and 9. I have a three year old that has been in minimal nursery school since he was one. He only goes three days a week for a couple of hours.

My step-sons BM (birth mother) just had a baby with her BF and this is her schedule:

She drops my step-sons at school to the morning-care program at 7:15AM (school starts at 8:45AM). She then drives her three month old baby to an in-home sitter that has five or six other kids at 7:45AM and then goes to work. She picks the baby up at 6:00PM and then she picks my SS up from after-care at 6:15PM (their school is over at 3:10PM). So my ss's are at school each day for 11 hours and the three month old baby is at a sitters for 10 hours each day!

Doesn't that seem like a lot! I just don't understand this. I offered to watch my SS's and she let me for two weeks and then got mad at my DH and put them back in the scholl child care program.

Why would you bother having children if someone else is going to raise them for you?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-11-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:11pm
BWAHWAHAWH!!!!Would you stop!!!I have to keep wiping the coffee off my screen!!!!
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:14pm
Design I am far from dense but if you want to believe that it's no skin off my nose nor does it bother me. You have helped me hone my arguing skills for bigger and more important things and helped me practice my typing skills.





iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:16pm
What's the "boots" version of crumpetsandteagarden, I wonder? "blackpatentslides?"
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:21pm
Same here. And 70 is a perfectly nice water temp for swimming!

I do believe the OP's profile says she is in NY, like I am. Winter bootlessness is practically abusive up here.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:22pm
I'm not Hank; Hank is dead. But that's okay; I understand that some people simply lack the maturity to refrain from namecalling or deliberate provocation.

And I doubt you've ever visited "annadale" as such a place doesn't exist. At least, not in the DC area. You *might* have visited Annandale, but I doubt anyone even gave a rats butt what kind of shoes you wore.

I know I don't.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:25pm
OP's profile says NY, where I live. It's a big state, but lack of boots is a serious problem anywhere in NY I've ever been. We've had better than 4 feet already and we're not the snow leaders.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:27pm
LOL...this is very true. I must confess, however, that the last baby nor'easter we had (it was the big honking one NYC and Boston got that we only got a glancing blow of), I actually didn't buy ANY milk (we had some) ANY bread or ANY TP. I did get eggs, tho. :) I thought the Snow Police would get me ;)

I'm a Snow Snob, too, actually. I do better with my front wheel drive Chevy Cavalier than most of these idiots in their SUVs, but then again, i grew up in the Chicago area and spent my 4 years active duty service in Bavaria driving a deuce-and-a-half to our mountain top deployment areas--and since at that time the service didn't like to pay Germans for maneuver damage, we only deployed in the winter months (which in Bavaria means October through April).

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:27pm
Cocoa:

Yes we do drink hot tea and are having some delicious sweet cakes for the holidays. And yes we read an ordinate amount of time. So books are are favorite things. Thanks so kindly for asking.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:31pm
LOL! or "ivisitedthereforeIknowtheweatherconditions"
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:31pm
Yes, but yet again, Oklahoma is *not* the only place in the US where people live and there are plenty of places in the country where daycare workers make far more than that. For her (or you or anyone else) to claim that no daycare workers earns more than $6/hour (which your post already refutes) is simply false.

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