I’ve been
away for a while, too much to do and not enough time. There have been way too many things I have
wanted to blog about, but grabbing the minutes to actually sit down and write
has been more than challenging. And if I
ever believe that my words are so much more important than the responsibilities
that I have to care for…well then I should give this up!!
Spring came
very early this year to South Carolina and it has been kind of weird. But broccoli is growing in the garden and
almost ready to be picked and many varieties of seeds are in the ground with
great expectations of their promises.
Thus begins a busy season for me as summer approaches, but then every
“season” is busy. I like it that way!
Last week
there was much in the news about a certain “talking head” remarking about a
presidential candidate’s wife, a stay at home mom, and the presumed “fact” that
she “hasn’t worked a day in her life.”
Yes, I know apologies were given and many weakly came to the defense of
the candidate’s wife, but the fact that this was ever voiced in the first place
is a sad statement on our world.
If you have
read this blog, or know me at all, you know what I think about what society calls
“Stay at home moms”. I prefer to just
call them moms, doing what they need to be doing. And I am not going to make commentary on moms
that actually need to work (i.e. not just so the family has a bigger house, newer
cars, more stuff). It is just so heartbreaking
that women who choose to make their family their career are still treated so
poorly. Honestly, it makes me ashamed to
call myself a female sometimes.
Of all the
choices I had 30 years ago (and there were many) I choose to put my family
first and that became my “career” choice.
As I have written here before, it has been the hardest job that I have
ever had, yet the most rewarding. I am
grateful, not only that I made this choice, but even for all the sacrifices our
family made so that we could take this road together. But to think that someone would look upon me
and think, “lazy, out of touch, unable to understand the real world, simple
minded, uneducated…” I guess that is their problem and their uneducated
conclusion.
But maybe
Miss “talking head” is right, I haven’t worked “a day” in my life, I work them
all!!!
