*word to the mothers!*

I wish I had written this. This lady nails motherhood on the head-- and when I am talking nails it, I am talking one of those hits with the hammer where you hit it in and it goes in just right and you are like, "ah yeah, that was a good one." You know the kind. Funny, I have a memory of being a teacher and driving from one job to the next... at the time I was teaching 160 kids, had to prepare 5 different class preps, teach 7 classes a day at two different middle schools including: journalism, 8th grade honors English, 7th grade honors english, 7th grade regular English and 8th grade reading. So I was driving between the schools during my lunch time and I saw a lady pushing a stroller. At that moment, I decided to "quit" my teaching job and start "trying". ( I really hate that phrase, BTW. Don't know why, it just sounds funny to me and rubs me the wrong way. "trying". ugh. JUST DO IT. no pun intended) I remember thinking..."ohhh, it'd be so nice to be a mom... I could catch up on all the extra reading I want to do, we could go on walks, I'd have no schedule, I can stay home and never get dressed again..." Well, hands down, motherhood is harder than anything those middleschoolers every threw at me... including the F-word, which coincidentally I threw back at the kid, but that's another story. And, just to make myself clear, I don't have any friends that I feel are as idiotic as the person who wrote in to Carolyn. My friends without kids are all very "with" it and probably understand parenthood better than I do most the time. I just liked the way Carolyn nailed the lady and her description of S.A.H.M's. (Super Awesome Hot Moms or Stay at home moms- whichever applies. Depends on the day for me.)

Enjoy!