A little story for you guys, I'm a little hormonal (page 3)

teejay

Very nice, closer.

..whoever wrote it. And here I was thinking that fatherhood was great!

LDH

Great thread. Hope your pregger's better than mine. [8>]

Looking into my new little baby's eyes.......could do it all day.

Hubby asks, "What'd you do today?" I answer, "Nothing much. Just spent it with Son and Daughter."

We decided last week I would not be going back to work for now. Luckily we are in a financial position where I don't have to work if I choose not to.

We decided it together. Nothing like being there for your children, constantly, consistently. The 7th grader needs me just as much as the newborn.

I'm loving being a mom all over again. My 34 year old sister's biological clock is doing the Marisa Tomei imitation from "My cousin Vinny", and her success as an independent restauranteer is not all she wants.

She wants a husband and babies. And, I can understand her.

The ERA and NOW wasn't about women HAVING to stay home, it was about women having the right to CHOOSE to stay home or have a career OR doing it all and being respected no matter what.

I didn't have children for other people to raise, that's for sure.

Lisa
She-bear Class (Ask Focus)

closer2fine

I didn't have children for other people to raise, that's for sure.

Some of our friends (and even family) were surprised I stopped working a month before my daughter was born and I haven't been back since.

"Why did you work your butt off getting that college degree if you weren't going to work again after you had kids?"

Well, for a variety of reasons. I wanted to do it for myself. To prove that the WTBTS didn't win. (I graduated the bottom 40% of my class in high school - saw no point in it if I was just going to get married and pioneer. I graduated with honors from a University that I worked my ass off to get into.) So that my children would know that I CHOSE to stay home with them and raise them - especially my daughters. Because I'm a better mother, I learned so much about child education in college. And because I am fortunate enough to have a hubby who provides for us so I can :o)

closer

cellomould

thanks for posting that Closer!

I want to be a daddy someday too for sure. Maybe not as many though as you've had, LoneWolf.

I'm only 24, still got time...

cellomould

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke

plmkrzy

Congrats and that was beautiful. can I keep it?
My boy's are all grown up now but reading your post took me back.
Now I am looking forward to going through it all again with different perspective, what will grand kids do to me.
plm
p.s. I love the way you write U should do it as a Pro.

thinkers wife

What a beautifully put piece of writing. I can only imagine that it is true!! Please bear with me if some of you already know. Because I was in an abusive marriage for almost seventeen years, I gave up my most important dream. Having children with the love of my life. Since part of the equation was missing, I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Since I am with Thinker I have a step-daughter. She will be fourteen in March. The bane of my life is that her mother has custodial care of her and we only have visitation. The up side is that even though we only have her briefly, I can see my influence in her life. It saddens me to see what her real and IMO, unfit mother does to a perfectly good child. But my hope is that being able to see healthy normal familial love will help her in the long run.
Congratulations Closer.
TW

teejay

Closer,

I know you don't need to hear this from me, but I'll say it anyway. You made the right choice leaving your career to raise your kids at home (and you'll still have it 15 years from now, anyway). Man, if I could be there for my daughter 24/7, I would... in a heartbeat. There is nothing better we can do than help the next generation, and no better way to do that than help build good people.

Making money, having a career—all that's fine—but if we have to sacrifice our own kids to do it, it's not worth it. I'm happy that you and your family are in the situation where you can stay home. That's rare these days. Even rarer for people who've had any associaton with the Org (w/ it's ban on higher education). You and your kids are very fortunate.

Again, thanks for sharing that essay. I saved it to hard drive and am passing it on.

Peace, and kiss that baby girl for me,
tj

SYN

Wowee! Did you write that C2F? If you did, you are an ace writer!

I really didn't have an inkling of the level of emotional involvement of a woman with her child until I read this...it's been an educational experience.

Sometimes, it sucks having Y chromosomes!

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.

A little story for you guys, I'm a little hormonal

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