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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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:46pm

Hey I like Memphis!

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:51pm

Hey...with Devin being ill, we have tons of food. It

"I do not want to be a princess! I want to be myself"

Mallory (age 3)

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:57pm
Not to worry...She's alledgedly from Ohio anyway. Apparently she considers that The South. BTW I have to say that I traveled through Tennessee and was really impressed. It is some beautiful country.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 8:00pm
I suppose if your frame of reference is the North Pole, Ohio COULD be considered "southern" LOL
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 8:01pm

Now I'm hungry!

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 10-11-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 8:04pm
By that logic I live next to Michigan too!

Edited to add: ...or maybe I am a southern state.


Edited 12/23/2003 8:15:18 PM ET by horseyme

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 8:04pm
But then how could that be north?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 8:10pm
Please do not speak for the south. I live in FL and I wear boots.

Susan

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 8:12pm
LOL. great minds think alike. while reading the above posts, all i could think of was dr seuss!!! EXCELLENT POST!!!
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Registered: 10-11-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 8:13pm
{{And you have not lived until you have eaten at the Rendevous in Memphis. They have the best ribs ever.}}

Oh RIBS!! I love ribs! Darn I hate being a vegetarian.

Okay I am hungry think I go gnaw on some tofu..:-[

edited because I cannot spell.




Edited 12/23/2003 8:16:26 PM ET by horseyme

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