so sick of hearing....

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so sick of hearing....
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Mon, 08-06-2007 - 1:34pm
hello everyone!! i just read the cnn article on how burnt out and guilty the working mom is...and how hard it is to incorparate "quality" time...and all i can say is WILL YOU COME OFF IT PLEASE!! i work-40 hours a week; sometimes 6 days a week to get all my hours...and i have 2 children-7 and 3...and you know what-every day during the school year, i walk my dd to school...i volunteer at my dds school-in her classroom and on field trips-i have the last 2 years and plan to do more of the same this coming year...i keep the house clean-do the dishes and laundry, go grocery shopping, etc. and you know what-neither of my kids feel slighted. we just took a week long vacation where we went to an amusement park and then to visit my sil for a few days...they have a lil shallow pool-and i go "swimming" with them often-usually before i go off to the adult world of work...we go on shopping trips with my mom and visit a cousin who has a huge pool and the adults play cards outside on the deck when the kids swim...we play games, we take walks, we go to parks...it just boggles my mind. yes i get tired-and yes there are days i wish i didnt have to go in to work...but then theres days that i cant wait until i go in-some women are meant to stay at home and theyre happy doing it...and some women are meant to work outside the home-i need that adult stimulation-i need my friends and my friends are all behind that deli counter with me...again i dont feel my kids are slighted in the least-my own mom was a stay at homer and she didnt volunteer at school and we never took the kinds of trips and outings my kids are lucky enough to have on a regular basis...i dont feel guilty when im at work-i dont think being a working mom hurts my kids...im getting sick and tired of hearing how unhappy working moms are, or how guilty i should feel cuz im not with my kids 24/7...maybe im the exception...or maybe the media focuses too much on the exceptions and a lot of working mommies feel like me...??? take care!!
joanne
maman2goons@yahoo.com

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Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:31am
why nothin' at all ma'am....how do you think i capitivated kelly in the first place? she fell for my shoulders (probably the one part of my anatomy I don't mind showing off LOL)

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:33am

Ohhhh....Im a shoulder girl myself.

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Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:35am
Kelly has three tatts and keeps trying to get me to get one but I'm a skeeered. She has a labrith on her neck (big lesbian symbol) a gargoyle above her left breast and a film strip around her upper arm (she was a film major in college) it makes her crazy when people ask her why she has a ladder on her arm....

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:37am
Dang! I was wavering on that 'e'. I guess I will be known as the Dan Quayle of "tripodism" (the Freudian term). My fave dykes were "Dykes on Bikes." For years, one of them, dressed in an evzone outfit (the Greek national guard thing with a skirt, but for a guy) would participate in the NY Greekie parade, on her bike, of course.
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Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:38am

Very cool!

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Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:40am
You hussy, you!
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Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:43am
I LOVE dykes on bikes -- they always open the gay pride parade in Boston and they ROCK. One of my friends this year said "hey how was pride" and I said "oh the usual, women on motorcycles with duct tape over their boobs and men dressed liek Glinda the Good witch...same ole same ole really"

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:45am
Ah yes...singlemomdom does have its moments. I had to scrounge the car for pennies once to buy insulin...and still came up $.18 short. Luckily the Walgreens guy took pity on me.

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Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:52am
last spring i had dropped my car off for inspection and was having breakfast with two friends while I waited. The dealer called my cell phone and told me I needed "at least two, probbly four" new tires. I put down the phone and started crying. My friend who was a single mom for over 25 years said "ok. I'll drive the getaway car, you get the masks ready"
sigh.....

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Thu, 08-23-2007 - 11:58am
Yes, but that is a good thing! It proves that you were not working for "extras." Eyeroll assumed, I hope.

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