MAN O MAN it has been forever since I posted! The house is still being remodeled. We still have only half a roof. We eat off a card table. But that is not why I decided to post.
I had an epiphany.
I finally started to realize why stay-at-home-moms sometimes find working moms so annoying. Working moms are sometimes so annoying! Why is it that the only moms I know who find it necessary CONSTANTLY to brag about their children are working moms?
The other week at the playground, Curtis and I had to withstand a certain mother talking about the 100 words that her 12 month old says. "We keep track of the words!," she gloated. "The other day we counted them! There are so many!" And last week at a party, an ob-gyn of all people was the WORST. I had said to Elan, "Look, Baby! Can you say, 'Baby?'" and the *mom* responded, "Yes, yes! My daughter can say the word "Baby!" (Her daughter was 11 months old.)
I was like, "Listen lady, I really don't care. And do you think I would be speaking to you in that voice?" Actually, I didn't say that, I was just *like* that. And quiet.
Is it that they feel so guilty about not being with their children that they constantly have to justify to themselves and to the world that their children are geniuses and thus don't need them to be home all the time. Or something.
Fortunately, I don't face these issues of guilt. I work because I make a great living and am the primary breadwinner. I have no mixed feelings and face no internal struggles. Plus - I think that Katherine Michiels School is raising Elan just fine! ;)
Posted by rebeca at June 15, 2004 02:28 PM