Currently reading: “Just Let Me Lie Down”
June 28, 2010 | 3 Comments | Currently Reading, Quotable

An attending I recently worked with is a married mother of two kids (now 18 and 20) and just could not fathom what stay-at-home moms do all day. The impending doom bliss of my growing belly has prompted many similar conversations with women at work. Whether you choose to stay at home or go to work while your little one grows up, I think there are a lot of misconceptions and misinformed stereotypes on both sides of the fence.
Organized in an alphabetized list of definitions, this book by Kristin van Ogtrop is fun and funny and easy to read. Brandon picked it off the “Mother’s Day” table at a local bookstore and it’s a good little read.
One of the main themes of this book is that there is no single path in motherhood. Every mom makes her own way as she learns from her mistakes and figures out what works for her family. I like this open, non-judgmental approach. I am probably secretly envious of women that have the luxury(?) and leisure(?)* of making their kids their full-time career.
But, as van Ogtrop says: it’ll probably be better in the long-run for me to be around less because it gives me less of a chance to screw my kids up.
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*Would stay-at-home moms really call their life “luxurious and leisurely”? Not likely. But I consider the ability to comfortably live and pay down debt with one income a luxury indeed.























