No not today. Nor tomorrow. But Friday. And I’m more than ready. I look forward to seeing my family and sleeping in my bed.
Category: thoughts
I have lots of thoughts. Some are more thought out than others. And I challenge myself to understand myself. When I do, I try to capture the moment. And hope that my haring of my (limited) insights may be helpful and inspirational to others.
best of intentions
Well, I had hoped that I would get a lot done today. Scrapbooks, a music review, leaves in the yard..these all need to be taken care of. But instead, I spent the day reading, doing a little scrapbooking, and hanging out with the kids. The girls spent the day making fairy houses out of odds…
upward is better than homeward?
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the Washington Post ran an editorial on June 18 entitled “Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms”. In this Linda Hirshman defends her earlier article “Homeward Bound” in The American Prospect. My first reaction to the Washington Post article was extreme anger. Stepping back from my desire to immediately…
The Mommy Wars part II
A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars by Miriam Peskowitz. While Ms. Peskowitz made some very interesting points, I did not feel that the book offered enough concrete solutions to the current social problem of the lack of choices in balancing family and work. She claims that the…