[MJemison]

Brava, Suzanne. A fine requiem to a life of huge value.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

An excellent piece, thank you.

When I realized how little I was giving my children when I was teaching full time and I realized how much they needed me, I gave up my much-worked-for career.

Yep, I miss the money sometimes, but the value of being able to attend every one of their field trips, classroom events, etc was far more rewarding then any monitary compensation I had ever receved in the workplace.

[nothingnew]

Dang it!!!...Where's my tissues?

Good post friend...My Mom left her mortal coils last year, almost to the day.

She worked for a short while out of high school for the RailRoad, but soon married...and then worked her butt off taking care of my Father, me, and my three brothers...

Hi Mom!

FMCDH

[lsucat]

Great post!

[cubreporter]

Excellent article. I must tell these feminists that having my mother home every single day when I came home from school was wonderful.

Let me tell you how we used to come in the front door from school to smell our delicious dinner cooking on the stove. Or...perhaps my mother was ironing our clothes and we could smell the starch as she ran the iron over the damp clothes. Or how she said hello to us or how we said hello to her. How we ran upstairs changed from our school clothes to our play clothes. How we ran outside to play for awhile.

Then we came in and set the dinner table for our family meal. How we said hello to our father as he came in from a long day at work. How we ate our wonderful dinner as a family no matter how big or how small it was. How after dinner we cleared the table, washed and dried the dishes, swept the kitchen floor then did our homework. How that evening we sat together as a family doing this or that and then it was time to go to bed.

I would not trade my mother being home with us for all the money in the whole entire world. I was able to do the same for our children too. We didn't have a lot but we had what we needed. My mother's warmth, smile, love and happiness when we came home each and every day was a great source of comfort for all of us and none of us...none of us would ever trade her being the housewife with the apron on for nothing in this whole wide world. She had a treasure trove of things in those apron pockets from picking up this or that all day long.

She had more going for her in her life and had so much to give of herself with personal satisfaction knowing she was the best mother she could ever be to her children than any feminist anywhere. She knew without the shadow of a doubt she had the love of my father and her children. More than anything else though she had the RESPECT she deserved from CHOOSING (which is what I thought the fems were all about) her career as a loving wife and mother.

For that, my brother, sisters and I will always feel blessed. She epitomized everything in my opinion of what a mother should be. So, feminists...go do YOUR thing. My mother has passed knowing she had the love and respect of her husband and children. A priceless trasure for sure. So, in closing, fems have no idea what being a mother is or they would not knock it. I think they are just jealous. Don't you? God bless all our mothers out there.

[Search4Truth]

God bless the homemakers.

[reformed_dem]

I will never regret my decision to stay home for my kids. I love being able to keep my house clean and tidy, do laundry in the morning rather than trying to fit it in late at night or on weekends. I love not being physically and mentally drained at the end of the day, trying to fit in "quality time" with my kids. My kids and I love that I am able to help in their classroom, drive on field trips, help out at class parties. I would never trade my life and I can honestly say that I don't need a career to feel fulfilled. I tried that and there was nothing fulfilling about it.

[stands2reason]

Funny. I think of stay-at-home moms as the producers of continuing civilization.

[avenir]

That is truly beautiful!

[Lizavetta]

Of course, modern feminists also rail at their workaholic fathers, whose lives they often imitate.

They also rail at what sex-obsessed bed-hopping jerks men are....and many of today's women have become exactly that. At least women used to get flowers, or some sense of responsibility from the man if she got pregnant. Now she's just a warm place to put it and expected to "take care of it" at Planned Parenthood. How desolate it must be to be a single nowadays.