Even Doctors Get Into Water Fights With Their Kids.
So this can be a very touchy subject. I grew up and still have a career mom. She is very focused and has taught me value lessons about making dreams come true. She has shown me that no matter how many times you've been pushed down you can stand back up and accomplish something. My mom is a mother of 8 and a physician. So many people told her she was crazy trying to become a doctor and have a large family but she did it and continues to do it.
Now that I've got it clear that I have an amazing mom, which I do. There are trade-offs having a working mom. One being that I didn't get the experience of going on a field trip with my mom, not saying that if she could have she wouldn't have because should would have. When I was younger and I needed help on my homework I went to my big sister or my very smart little brother cause my mom was working or my dad was busy. Because my mom worked I have a great relationship with my dad, sometimes I catch myself calling my dad for something that I would typically call my mom for.
Life is different now, my mom has a little more time and makes herself available for us if we need her and my little sisters get to go on field trips with my mom. We have found a happy middle point. I will say that my mom would have gone completely insane being a stay at home mom and she is an amazing doctor. I wouldn't want a different mom.
So now you know how my life was I'll tell you how I hope it will be for my children. I hope that I can be a at home mom. I have always dreamed of it. I think that it would be very hard for me to leave my children in some else's care when I could be doing it. The way I see it my dream is/has been/will continue to be a mom and then a career woman. So that is my plan... what's yours? How was it for you growing up? Leave a comment.
Great blog. Now I know just a little bit more into the life of my favorite person, and her amazing mother. By the way, Great Picture of your mother.
ReplyDeleteI had a stay at home mom but my sister was/is and always will be my go to person. My mom stayed at home by force and wanted to work. She had a hard life growing up and for some reason missed the memo on trying to give your kids more then you.
ReplyDeleteI know that all sounds confusing to anyone else who might read this, but I think you know enough about me to understand.
My plan is to continue at home with my sweet girls and any other babies that decide to come along, and then maybe some day go to school and work.
I really want to be a photographer but we will see how or if that ever ans out LOL.
My mom was mostly a stay-at-home mom. Once we got into school she worked for the school district for a few years, so she was always home when we were home. That was handy. By the time we were in high school, she decided to go back to school for her LPN. Then she wasn't really there for us, but we didn't need her as much, so it was fine. As for me, I'm a stay-at-home mom and I hope to keep it that way! Who knows, I may get a part-time job later when all of my kids are in school, but I'm not set on it.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I'd like to go back to school to get a masters degree, but I really don't know how that will work. Maybe if I didn't have high-risk pregnancies...but I don't know if I will ever have a 2-year stretch of time where I don't have to worry about staying pregnant, having a baby in the NICU, or nursing a baby. Hmmm. Maybe 10 years from now.
ReplyDeleteWell, since you mom is my mom, it was the same for me. When my husband told me I could be a stay-at-home mom I couldn't believe my ears. But my plan is to take care of them until they go to school, go back to school myself but only part-time so I'm home when they're home. And then work part-time until they graduate (again, part-time so I'm home when they're home). I don't feel like I HAVE to work, I just think I'll get bored if I don't.
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