Posted on 12/19/2007 11:00:10 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
The love of my life is seeing other women. It started innocently enough, a bite to eat, a stroll through the park -- the stuff I never have time for. Then came the private jokes, the pet names, the stolen kisses, the bubble baths.
At first I was crushed. What did these women have that I didn't? Sure, they're gorgeous, but I happen to look very nice in navy; and, yes, they're bright, but I scored unbelievably high on the SATs ... if you don't count the half with all that math.
I told myself it was just a fling, but a blind man could see that wasn't the case. The truth is this: My daughter, Julia, would follow Dina Sotomayor, her nanny, and Lidra Basha, her babysitter, to the ends of the earth, and the feeling is more than mutual.
For a while, I worried that with Julia's grandparents living so far away and her father -- that would be Johannes, my boyfriend of the past 6,000 years -- working in Europe for long stretches, Julia's world would be pitifully small, but then along came Dina with her arroz con pollo, and Lidra with her Kosovar lullabies, and everyone's life took a major turn for the better.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Three moms? Are they hot, and if so, what are they doing this weekend?
Okay, I will read the article now.
>> If you can get any further than the portion I excerpted you are better than me...
Nope, which prompts me to ask... WHY on earth did you post it? :-)
It takes a village.
If you've been with him for so long, why not just make it official and tie the knot?
Oh wait, now I remember: It's cuz you're a whore.
Just kidding, but really: You're a whore.
For crying out loud...
Nope, started barfing within the first three sentences.
Since Johannes is getting the milk for free...
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I will resist a smart-ass reply congratulating you on being one of the 11 remaining members of society who can get by on a single income, especially given the forecasts that 15 years from now (when my daughter is ready for college), four years at a public institution will run somewhere in the neighborhood of $129,788.
And should Julia be smart enough to get into an Ivy League university, we're looking at roughly $279,760. Fortunately, she recently spent the better part of an hour with her little head stuck inside a shoebox, so affording Harvard may not be an issue.
But I can't help thinking how incredible it must feel to be unfazed by this prospect.
So let me get this straight. As the mother you don't have time to raise your child yourself because you are too busy working to pay for her nanny, babysitter, and future education?
That's pretty funny...who writes your material? ;)
Wow, I never thought pogroms were a source of humor, but gosh, with your clever turn of a phrase it almost becomes rife with comedic material!
Just the pure absurdity of it.
My poor children have been crippled with only the one old mommy. As if that weren't bad enough, I'm mean and demanding (do your homework! do your chores! come give Mommy a kiss!).
How they ever manage to excel and remain healthy and happy is beyond me.
So, I see you made it further than I. So what was the point of her whole “piece”?
Seriously, how is this less expensive than living on one salary? Hiring a nanny and a babysitter - huh? that’s a horrible adult-to-child ration compared to a stay at home mom with five - plus the accoutrements of a career and all the additional expenses there... in the rest of the horrible article she claims to not be able to afford to stay home but I think it’s bunk.
I suppose if you’re planning to get your kid into government daycare - I mean school - as soon as possible it makes sense not to take the career break but ugh.
Did we do something exceptionally bad that you are inflicting this on us?
Ah, so when you saw the title did you immediately think “lesbian threesome”?
You forgot to mention what calling Daddy in Europe for months on end may cost. Hey, what's good old Dad kicking into the equation, by the way?
DUH! Why do you think I clicked through to the link!
This is so true in L.A. I can’t BEAR to read on. I am a SAHM and I love being the one my kids run to and love and the one they can depend on to pretty much always be by their sides.
Many two-earner L.A. families have fulltime nannies while the mothers focus on “Things More Important” than their kids. But dammit, the kids will be seen in the best designer clothes. And after a week of almost never seeing their own kids, then comes the weekend when the babysitters show so the parent(s) can go out and enjoy their “free time.” (And the nannies go home to see their own kids, whom they have abandoned all week to care for little white rich kids.) I fear for the good people of the next generation who will have to deal with these pass-around possessions the Hollywood/wealthy types call children, once they are grown — and needy as hell.
Lovely sentiment. What a b****
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