Comments on: A riddle, wrapped in an enigma

By: jane

jane — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:52:28 +0000

hey i need your help with something…how much of this web design did you learn? i bought photoshop and am LOST

By: little miss mel

little miss mel — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:39:23 +0000

Hubs said my job title was housewife the other day and I almost lost it. He actually was perplexed by my reaction?!? He didn’t think it was offensive. HELLO??

Nice post sistah. See you in a week!!!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:56:06 +0000

I know exactly what you mean. I am a SAHM (I don’t mind the term) but I always feel that I need to be working on something that generates money, even from home. As if that somehow makes me more valuable……

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:28:32 +0000

A master’s is exceptionally far off since I can’t freakin’ spell! I meant to say “looong” in the comment above. Geez.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:27:45 +0000

I love hearing fellow moms’ insights into this topic. I feel the same as you, but a master’s for me is a looon way off! I hope to finis my degree (2 more years) once our kids are school-aged. I know these years of our babies being so young will fly by and I don’t think we’ll regret being so present for them, but I agree that it’s good not to find one’s identity in only one thing. Preach it!

By: Eve

Eve — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:31:12 +0000

I have been both and currently all of my kids are in school and I am working. Personally I hated the label stay at home mom even more I dislike the “SAHM” (sorry to all of those who like that). Just as I hate the term working Mom. What the hell…don’t all Mom’s work?

Personally I am a domestic goddess! lol No matter what you do we all are WOMEN & MOTHERS period!

By: BeachMama

BeachMama — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:54:00 +0000

Such a touchy subject. I am a SAHM, and I love it. Some days I would like to get up and go to work, but knowing that the work I am doing here is the most important of my life keeps me going.

The question I hate the most is, “where do you work?”. When I reply at home, I always feel like I have to add that I am a SAHM instead of just leaving it like that. Someday I will learn.

By: gorillabuns

gorillabuns — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:20:17 +0000

i can TRULY understand your position!

i feel like i constantly try to explain my degrees and work experience, due to my uncomfortable state as a SAHM.

while i mostly LOVE staying home, at times, i feel like a piece of me is dying slowly.

WOW, that was kinda harsh!

clarification: it seems to me, your peers (a few select women) don’t give you credit for staying home because you are over-educated and once a professional while on the flip side, you feel guilty for dreaming of aspirations of more than wiping butts and screaming, “because I said so!”

the balance doesn’t seem to be there in the form of support between women for women.

this is probably not your situation. i guess i’m interjecting nonsensical crap because, this dynamic is what i have been going through for the past 3 years.

to be or not to be, that is the question….

By: Angella

Angella — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:27:50 +0000

I hear your struggle. That’s why I like that I can work AND be a “SAHM”

By: 180/360

180/360 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:03:36 +0000

I still have a hard time believing you were in a sorority! :O

I like being a SAHM, but I too look forward to the day when I can coexist as a successful, working photographer and a happily, fulfilled mother.

PS. Funny that both of our posts today are about balance!