A Woman’s Nation: A new report from Maria Shriver tells us just how much women’s lives have changed
Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress commissioned a study of the state of women today – their work life and their home life.
Through polling and interviews, the partnership has produced a VERY meaty report called “A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything.” Time Magazine and NBC news outlets have been reporting the results of this study all week. There is also a Web site with all the findings.
Here is the web site The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything
Here is the link to NBC news with videos from the Today Show and MSNBC.
We can’t deal with the whole report at once so here are few highlights to start us off:
From Maria Shriver’s opening essay:
- … fully HALF of U.S. workers are female—and mothers have become the primary breadwinners in 4 in 10 American families.
- Half of all families rely on the earnings of two parents and in more than 20 percent of all families a single mother is the primary breadwinner.
- Seventy percent of families with kids include a working mother.
- Shriver says “And more and more of them, like me, are moving into what I call ‘the squeezed generation,’ caring for both kids and our own aging parents.’”
(Shriver found that caring for elderly family members is becoming a huge issue for families.)
- …Today, women now earn 60 percent of the college degrees awarded each year and fully half of the Ph.D.s and the professional degrees.
- Almost 40 percent of working women hold managerial and other professional positions.
- Women make 80 percent of the buying decisions in American homes.
- “Virtually all married couples told the pollsters they’re negotiating the rules of their relationships, work, and family. An overwhelming majority of both men and women said they’re sitting down at their kitchen tables to coordinate their family’s schedules, duties, and responsibilities, including child care and elder care, at least two to three times a week. Men said it was more like every day!”
- “In the Rockefeller/Time poll, more than three-quarters of both men and women agreed that the increased participation of women in the workforce is a positive change for society. Both sexes also agreed that men are becoming more financially dependent on women. And both women and men said they’re still adjusting their lives, their expectations, and their assumptions to the change.”
Some interesting stats from Tuesday’s Today Show with Shriver:
- 86 percent of women who work feel like the majority of housework and childcare still falls on them!
However, Dad are helping more.
- Since the 1960s, men helping with housework has jumped from 15 percent to 30 percent.
- Since the 1960s, men helping with childcare has tripled!
- However, 70 percent of women polled said they feel like they alone are responsible for childcare and eldercare. (There seems to be a disconnect in how much women think men are helping or in how much men are reporting they are helping.)
What do you make of this study?
Are you working? Are you the primary breadwinner? How has that affected your family life or your relationship with your husband?
What do you make of women earning 60 percent of the college degrees each year?
What is the work split at home for housework? For childcare? For eldercare?
Is eldercare becoming a big issue for you?
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146 comments Add your comment
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
12:57 pm
@ Vork…who is bickering? I’M just saying.
Vork
October 21st, 2009
12:59 pm
@Hate Working
How about, hey my husband’s paycheck just is not enough to support us financially so I have to take on a job to make sure we can pay bills and put food on the table…..
Please tell me that you are intelligent enough to realize that not all working moms do so out of choice.
Vork
October 21st, 2009
1:05 pm
@Hate Working..
My bad I was responding to your 12:38 pm comment and did not see your 12:39 comment….
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
1:06 pm
Vork, if you’ll re-read her post, that’s what she said. She works because she has to and that her paycheck doesn’t go far enough to pay the bills. She wishes she could stay home but can’t out of necessity. How is that any different from what you just said but in different words?
FCM
October 21st, 2009
1:10 pm
Hate Working don’t stress yourself out. Add some broccoli to that Ragu or change it up with some aspargus and garlic/olive oil and your treating your family just fine. Personally I would hope if I stayed at home I would have more to show for it than a clean house and a dinner that took 2 hours to cook — at that point I would have to agree with Steinheim’s assesment that there is more to my life than a clean toliet.
Kendall – stop the judging. The lanuage and puncuation comes across as superior and judgemental. What will you do if hubby is downsized? What if he gets in a horrible crash like those folks on Hwy 78 last week. You so don’t want to go there with this crowd. I’m just saying.
YUKI
October 21st, 2009
1:10 pm
Kendall, please get a life. I’m not going to go into detail defending my choice, I’m just going to say I’m happy in my NECESSARY decision to be a working mother. I don’t get home late and I don’t take work (physically or mentally) home with me. My child is not suffering because of it. Sounds like you need to loosen up and go have a margarita with the other snooty SAHM’s in their tennis skirts and visors…..
Sorry to make this about SAHM vs. WORKING Vork, but these people trying to say working mothers are choosing career over family need to mind their own business and do what is right for thier families…
Vork
October 21st, 2009
1:12 pm
@Kendall
Thanks….I think I went a bit crosseyed for a moment, but I think the problem has been solved.
Vork
October 21st, 2009
1:16 pm
Ideally, what difference does it make if you “choose” to work versus being forced to work? I don’t understand the difference…..as long as family comes first no matter what in both cases WHO CARES?
Hate Working
October 21st, 2009
1:28 pm
FCM..spending two hours in the kitchen is a luxury for those of us who like to cook. It’s a hobby. I watch Food Network Channel and Hell’s Kitchen and would love nothing more than be able to create masterpieces. Pardon me for disagreeing, but simply adding a few different ingredients to a can of RAGU at different times does not change the same-ole, same-ole. As for cleaning house? The toilet has to be cleaned at some time, doesn’t it? As it is, it’s only once a week my floors get vaccuumed, mopped, bathrooms cleaned and laundry caught up. I’m forced to deal with all this on the weekends since I work during the week..leaving no time to me. If I didn’t have to work I would have the chance of being a better mother, wife and pick up some much needed ME time for my own hobbies and interests…including having the luxury to experiment in the kitchen.
Jo Yo Yo
October 21st, 2009
1:30 pm
Maria Shriver? Is this the same woman that breaks the law by talking on a cell phone while driving? Is this the same woman that has very little in common with the average woman? Oh yes, yes it is.
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
1:32 pm
Yuki, yuki, yuki. Well you certainly aren’t home at 3:00 when your children arrive home from school nor is dinner on the table at 5:00 when the husband arrives. So in essence…yes you are late getting home. Who is there for the kids? Oh Grandma? Yep..parental substitution. They get to see mommy for a few hours at night before bedtime at 8:00. My family gets ALL of me…not just squeezing them in between my job.
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
1:36 pm
Enter your comments here
YUKI
October 21st, 2009
1:41 pm
Well good for you. You are much better off than the rest of us. I’m pretty sure the TWO hours between 3:00 and 5:00 aren’t going to make THAT much of a difference in the kid’s life. Sounds like you are up on your horse so high you can’t see that for the rest of us this is working just fine. I’m not a 50’s wife rubbing my husband’s feet and having dinner on the table when lovey walks through the door. Do you have a “manhattan” ready in the cocktail glass for him as well?
Hey, if that is what floats your boat.
Like somebody said before, hope you don’t end up on the other end, a single mom or husband loses job and you end up having to actually contribute to the family income. Heaven forbid you would do what you have to do…
judgemental much
October 21st, 2009
1:44 pm
Geez Kendall, God forbid someone doesn’t choose to live their life exactly the way you do, it doesnt make them a bad parent, BTW how are things back there in 1950.
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
1:48 pm
I think the 1950’s were great. Our parents loved attending those sock-hops. Our grandmother’s had all the time in the world to sew those cute little poodle skirts for their daughters (our mothers) because grandma didn’t work!
New Stepmom
October 21st, 2009
1:50 pm
WOW as a first time expectant mom, today’s topic is interesting. I am unsure what I want to do as far as work is concerned and hearing both sides feeds the confusion. Right now we do need my income but are hoping that will change before September of next year when I would return to my current job. I have had “my own money” since I was 12 years old and ending my career is scary to the extent of not wanting to completely rely on someone else financially. However, I love keeping a wonderful home and it is difficult right now with only a part time child, so the struggle in my brain continues.
My husband falls into the category of not helping much in the house, but wanting the house to be run smoothly and be kept clean. I am insistent on having a housekeeper twice a month while I am working and I will ask for help when I need it, but I do sometimes have to nag. He does work longer hours than I do at times, but most of the house “stuff” falls on me to manage. That is the key reason that staying at home following the birth of our child looks appealing. I do not want to be one of those moms that is doing nothing well because there is too much on my plate.
The bottom line for us is, everything has fallen into place perfectly and I know this piece will too…right now my brain does not shut this issue off very much though…
Victoria
October 21st, 2009
1:57 pm
Here is a voice you haven’t heard. Yes I work because I chose to. I did not have children so I could focus on my career and am very happy with that decision. I know I would have had to make sacrifices either in my career or at home and I wasn’t willing to do that. Some of my friends who choose to work do so because they love what they do but they are still stressed out. Sometimes they are forced to choose their job over their children if it involves a deadline. So I understand what some of these stay at home women are saying and that is exactly why I chose not to have a family. I never have to feel guilty.
Hey Hate Working...
October 21st, 2009
1:57 pm
…” If I didn’t have to work I would have the chance of being a better mother, wife and pick up some much needed ME time for my own hobbies and interests…including having the luxury to experiment in the kitchen.”
Geez, lady, want some cheese with that WHINE? I guess you haven’t seen too many fat, bon-bon eating, Jerry Springer watching SAHMs who have plenty of ME time yet still think life is all about THEM.
There are good and bad parts about being a SAHM or being a “working mom”. In either situation it is what each person makes it for their family – so don’t me started on the sanctimonious KENDALL who knows it all – I would love to have a 24 hour camera on her so that we could show just what a beotch she must really be!
Hey wait a minute...
October 21st, 2009
2:03 pm
…Kendall darlin’, is that you – my beer needs refilling – please hurry!!!!
Uconn
October 21st, 2009
2:03 pm
All I can say is WOW… Let me start by saying I do not have kids… Yet… BUT… I will NEVER let myself be defined by having dinner on the table by 5pm for my soon to be husband… Marriage is teamwork and let me say that I will be working after I (we) have kids… Partly by choice and partly by necessity. I am home today because I had a lot of dental work done and I am CLIMBING the walls.
I have heard that it does not matter how much time you spend with your kids, but rather the quality time you spend with them. What about the SAHM who watches TV all day and does nothing with her child ? And the working mom who comes home and talks with her child and spends time with them? It may only be an hour of QUALITY time but I bet that kid would value that over a mom being home and cleaning and cooking all day.
Kendall – The 50’s ended about 50 years ago… but if thats the way you feel and you enjoy doing that, then good for you, its just not for everyone. But for me? BLECH… I am no one’s slave… If my soon to be Husband expected dinner when he got home, he knows where the refrigerator is… I do it for him becuase he doesn’t expect it.
YUKI – I bet you are a GREAT mom … :) and I mean that with sincerity… From your posts you sound intelligent …
Have a great rest of the day…. If I could only get my tooth to stop hurting :(
Hate Working
October 21st, 2009
2:05 pm
What is your problem? You’re the one who sounds whacked out. There is nothing wrong with a working mother wanting more time to themselves. I would bet most of the posters who work feel that way.
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
2:10 pm
If you need a beer in the middle of the day, go for it. I’m sure as a working mother you’re stressed out and need that buzz.
FCM
October 21st, 2009
2:14 pm
hate working have you missed the 92 times I have said I am a Single Mom (and Vork you’ll have to forgive me for saying it a 93rd)…who the heck do you think does all those chores you list at my house?
New Stepmom
October 21st, 2009
2:15 pm
Kendall….I have to say that my dear friends who are SAHMs are just as stressed as the working moms (again leading to more confusion for me). I think your last comment was a little harsh and definitely does nothing to further the cause of women in all walks of life.
YUKI
October 21st, 2009
2:26 pm
well I made a comment earlier that did not post so whatever….but thanks UCONN for the kind words. I really don’t take what people that judge working mothers say to heart…to each his own.
Hate Working
October 21st, 2009
2:27 pm
FCM…and I know you’re stressed. That’s my point. Imagine if you had a spouse to take care of the bills and you stayed home to care for the home and family.
New Stepmom…it is way more stressful going to a full-time job. SAHMS get to cook, clean, grocery shop, garden, attend children’s school events all during the 8-hour day that I am slaving away at a job. Those things SAHMS do still have to be done at my house but I have to squeeze them in AFTER my job and on weekends. Trust me…try working for a while and only then will you understand what I’m saying about staying home.
Hey wait a minute...
October 21st, 2009
2:27 pm
…Kendall darlin’ – it’s me, your husband who allows you to stay at home and shelter the girds of my loins that is requesting, and now DEMANDING that you bring that d@mn beer to me, woman!
HB
October 21st, 2009
2:30 pm
“I think the 1950’s were great. Our parents loved attending those sock-hops. Our grandmother’s had all the time in the world to sew those cute little poodle skirts for their daughters (our mothers) because grandma didn’t work!”
Hahahahahaha! In the 50s, my grandmother was working in a shirt factory and my grandfather in a textile factory. My mom came home after school and took care of her youngest brother, bringing him along as she and her other brother did their farm chores. Then she helped make dinner for the family. She says her aunts who didn’t work outside the home didn’t spend much more time with the kids and certainly didn’t spend much time on homework (back then, that was seen as primarily the kids’ responsibility) because housework took a larger chunk of time back when there were clothes to hang out to dry, vegetables to can, dishes to wash by hand, dresses to sew to save money, etc. Such a lifestyle was probably more common throughout Georgia than the Donna Reed, middle-class lifestyle you describe.
OK, all you stay at home moms...
October 21st, 2009
2:31 pm
…don’t you just love how “Hate Working” thinks you have it so easy? She is one self-centered beotch who thinks the world owes her something. She is really having a bad life, and wants to blame it on everyone but herself – and deep down she is blaming her husband – but who made her marry him?
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
2:36 pm
Toodles…off to pick up my child from school. No school buses or daycare for him. And why are you picking on Hates To Work? Must be the same poster again. You really have it in for her. I don’t see where she said any of those things. Are you just trying to stir trouble? Again…you may need to double on those beers. Sounds like you could use a chill period.
Hates Working
October 21st, 2009
2:41 pm
Since you don’t want to post with a name but hail insults, I suppose you must be a SAHM yourself and married a man for his money so you could do just that. I don’t blame my husband and I don’t have a bad life. Is it stressed? You betcha. Would I chose to stay home. Certainly. So does why does that paint me to be a pity party? That’s not what I’ve been saying at all. I just don’t know why anyone would chose to work if they don’t have to. That is all I’m saying. I don’t EVEN know what YOU are talking about.
judgemental much
October 21st, 2009
2:42 pm
Let me guess Kendall, you are an ITP mom driving your giant SUV with the “W” sticker still in the back window, probably yapping on your cell phone with your kids in the back glued to the head rest DVD player. I may be wrong but you just scream stereotypical ITP SAHM snob.
Hates Working
October 21st, 2009
3:05 pm
And by the way, I have a wonderful husband. Definition of Wonderful – loving and caring. Wonderful does not equal MONEY if that’s what you were implying. I didn’t marry for money. Why would I? Did you?
What's wrong with a W Sticker?...
October 21st, 2009
3:12 pm
I would venture to guess that “Hates Working” is an ITP working mom who lives in Grant Park or Inman Park and just loves Obama and all his give-away programs!
motherjanegoose
October 21st, 2009
3:15 pm
Wow Vork….I was not here all day and the kids are still fighting, Since I have not received notification from Theresa that you are making good on your comment to pay me to shut up ( that was all hype) I guess I will chime in.
I LOVE MY WORK.
Yes, it is stressful and yes I feel overwhelmed sometimes but at the end of the day, I am more proud of the ideas I shared with educators and students than any toilet I ever cleaned or dinner I cooked. The cleaning and cooking may last 24 hours but my work lasts a lifetime.
There was a time when I was content with being able to focus on my house and family ( luckily I worked part time) but now that I am 50, I AM OVER IT. The same routine gets old after a while…some SAHM folks have not hit*** a while*** yet and some have worked so long that they DO need a break and would cherish being a SAHM.
When folks share thoughts about me at my funeral, it will not be:
HER HOUSE WAS SPOTLESS, SHE PICKED UP HER CHILDREN AT SCHOOL EVERY DAY, SHE COOKED DELICIOUS MEALS AND SEWED THE CUTEST CLOTHES
I think it will be:
SHE LOVED WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND EDUCATORS AND HAD A PASSION FOR SHARING IDEAS THAT ENHANCED LITERACY. SHE CONNECTED WITH HER NEIGHBORS AND ENJOYED TRAVELING, MEETING NEW PEOPLE AND LEARNING NEW THINGS.
I have stepped out ( of my house) and worked with almost 100,000 educators who are using the things I created and embracing the ideas I share.
My children are not fully grown yet but they are ( generally) great kids and I get compliments from folks about them all the time, in spite of the fact that I was never a SAHM. It can happen. They are independent and mature too because I have not been there to handle everything for them. They rode the bus home all by themselves and even made their own snack too.
To each his own. Some women prefer to stay home and some prefer to work. I was home a lot this summer and thought I was going to lose my mind. I need more stimulation than cleaning and cooking. Just being in Alaska, this weekend, was amazing and talking to the teachers there was wonderful too.
madmommy
October 21st, 2009
3:27 pm
Kendall,
I’m sorry if you feel as if you are master of the universe because you stay at home. Honestly, I feel that I give my child all the love and attention that a small child could ever want. Granted, I’m sure she would love to stay home with her mommy, but why not allow her to be around other kids her age and other adults? It’s good for the both of us and I feel that I am a better mom because of it. You have to take care of yourself first before you can take care of anyone else.
FYI, I make home cooked meals just about every night (that we aren’t having leftovers) and I work full time. Ever heard of a crock pot or being able to make things ahead of time? Duh!!
Hates working, I think you need to carve out at least 30 minutes a day for yourself regardless of how you have to do it. I workout everyday and it’s my own time. Sometimes I do have to be home in order to get that workout in, but at least it’s my own time to turn my brain off and switch gears. You don’t have to defend your choice on a husband since I know plenty of men who would love for their wives to be able to stay home, but it can’t happen.
Most women I know don’t want to lose their own sense of identity just because they had a child. Yes, it is life changing, but I’ve had one name up until I started hearing mommy and I will be with that person for the rest of my life. Can’t just turn her off because I’ve had a child. How do you want your kids to live life? Teach your daughters that they are nothing if not mothers taking care of someone else without regard for their own personal happiness? Geez, get over it. When your kids move out and don’t live up to your expectations, your going to just lose it. Relax as Frakie says.
This has nothing to do with men helping with housework or the kids by the way. Just another way women get katty with each other.
FCM
October 21st, 2009
3:28 pm
MJG — at your funeral I think what I may say is “that is the briefest thing I have known her for.” of course at mine they will say “she finally stopped talking!” many hugs! ;)
New Stepmom
October 21st, 2009
3:39 pm
Hates working….I do work full time and have a step child at the house only part time, so It does give me some idea of the struggles. Again, I have no idea what I will do when our child comes, but i do see stress on both sides on the SAHM or working mom debate.
motherjanegoose
October 21st, 2009
3:50 pm
@ FCM…thanks for the laugh. When I was in 1st grade, the teacher sent a note home, to my mother, that she had to put tape over my mouth to keep me quiet…( imagine doing that now). When I was in 9th grade I was sent out of the Home Ec class because I was the only one who was sewing and talking at the same time…everyone else was listening and talking to me. When I was in HS and college, I was the one who made the announcements on the PA at Wal Mart.
Now, I get to talk for a living and get paid nicely too…wish my first grade teacher could see me!!!
It is amazing but I do have teachers who e-mail me and say,
” I wish you could come and share your new ideas at our school every week….”
I do have lots of ideas but I AM NOT THAT CLEVER.
LOL
October 21st, 2009
4:43 pm
I knew she couldn’t make through a day without telling us she gets paid to talk….too funny!!
Christina
October 21st, 2009
4:54 pm
I think some of our “need” to work is self-inflicted. Yes, I currently am a mom who also works full-time outside the home. Yes, I want to give up my career and stay home. Yes, my husband and I are taking strides toward achieving that goal.
How many of us who “need” to work live in a three-bedroom, one-bath house and share only one car for the household? How many of us have no cable bill, no cell phone bill, no internet bill, no housecleaner bill, no car payment? Most of us probably have some of those things and more. How many of us buy new clothes, toys, appliances instead of fixing the old/broken ones we’ve got? If we’re comparing to an era when women stayed home, let’s consider the standard of living. Today’s typical home is much larger than it was 20-30-40-50 years ago. Today almost all of us have one vehicle (or more) per parent. If we were to cut out all the expenses that previous generations didn’t have, how many more parents could stay home (or at least cut back their hours–or cut back to only one job)? We’ve been evaluating all these “needs” since my husband’s salary cut last spring and have managed to cut more from our budget than we thought possible.
The final hurdle will be selling our house . . . we made an investment by building our own house (he was a residential builder before the industry collapsed), and we thought we could carry it a couple years, sell it and it would turn a profit. A couple years came and went, and now we can’t even break even on it, so we continue to carry the mortgage until things improve . . . even with the morgage, we probably can swing me working from home and taking a small pay cut, but we could easily halve our mortgage and allow my income to become supplementary, if only we could sell the house we’re in! “Need” to work? Yes. For now. Completely self-inflicted? Yes.
Christina
October 21st, 2009
4:55 pm
Article about how the housing standard has changed since 1950: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5525283
motherjanegoose
October 21st, 2009
5:10 pm
@LOL….this JUST came in today from Alaska…an actual teacher sent it….enjoy:
It was so fun having you up here at the Alaska _________
Thanks so much for coming. You inspired me and I’ve been having a
blast with my kindergartners. It’s always good to be reminded to smile,
move and wiggle. It’s what kids do best!
Fondly, __________
@ Christina…I hear you! No car payments here and no flat screen or Wi ( sp?) or Ti Vo ( sp?)!
No housecleaner either. We also have no retirement package as that was eliminated a few years back and we are socking away everything we can. Eight years left on our mortgage, so we are not going anywhere. Like they used to say, “this is not your father’s Oldsmobile….”
This is not the way things used to be either!
Off to make a real dinner for my family and then pack for St. Louis…have fun!
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
5:46 pm
Christina…my friend you so understand and I applaud you. These nitwits judged me without knowing me. Guess what people. I am an OTP. I have no college degree. I rent. My husband and I both drive cars that are 7 years old with over 100K miles on BOTH of them…a stripped down Ford Explorer and a stripped down Toyota with a crack in the windshield. I have no cell phone…why would I need one if I don’t work? My TV is 36 inches. We never eat out because I can cook delicious gourmet meals at home for half the price because I do not work. As for “W” on my rear window…I am democrat, voted Obama and support PUBLIC HEALTH CARE!!! Talk about looking like an idiot for those of you who THINK you know what SAHMS are!! We are not all married to a Bernie Madoff ripping off those who are in the dark.
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
5:53 pm
Madmommy…I did work the first years of my child being in school. Pre-K all the way through 4th grade. Every day was the same. My child asking why I had to work…why couldn’t I be there like the other mothers. We lived in a WEALTHY neighborhood of SAHMS and my son was the ONLY kid who had to go to daycare. And he cried about it. We sold the $300K house with the $1000K HOA dues, we got rid of the expensive cars, all so that I COULD BE THERE FOR MY SON WHEN HE ASKED! Now…if you think YOUR children don’t feel the same? You women are dilusional. There is not a child on this earth that would say “sure, mommy, I don’t want you home when I get home from school” Enjoy those paychecks ladies…just so you can drive the LEXUS SUV’s and shop at Nordstroms. And especially for your kids…it’s important that their shirts say “Abercrombie” on the front. $50.00 to $200.00 a pop….depending on what you buy…a t-shirt or a jacket!!
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
6:00 pm
But I am flattered that someone thought I was some rich Bernie Madoff bride without any regard for the working class.
Hates Working
October 21st, 2009
6:04 pm
I simply think you working women have lost your way. It’s all aobut your job. Your paycheck. Your self-ful-filled destiny in life. You don’t need to have children because YOU come first!
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
6:08 pm
Oh hi H-W…glad to see you back. I believe some of these phonies are trying sooo hard to justify their position to neglect their children. I recently got to attend an OVERNIGHT field trip and chaperone the entire 5th grade on a camping trip. Now you moms who chose to work? You are NOT able to participate in something like this unless you submit a vacation day and god bless…you better hope it doesn’t fall on a day where the business module is being shown in a quaterly meeting! You wouldn’t get to attend…would you! Have to choose ladies..Job or family! Know what I mean? Been there…done that!
Kendall
October 21st, 2009
6:21 pm
Well…I’m off to eat my delicious dinner….swedish meatballs with rosemary/thyme seasoning in a mushroom/alfredo sauce that has been simmering on the stove for a few hours. If I worked, I would be serving my family something frozen in a bag!!!! Not this gourmet dish of flavor!!! Eat your heart out ladies who chose to work….hope that Stouffers tastes great…or at least if you attempt to cook something homemade and delicious that your family doesn’t starve to death before 8:00 when if finally hits the table because your job is so important!
deidre_NC
October 21st, 2009
6:22 pm
kendall i honestly hope nothing bad ever happens to your husband but just in case i hope he has a fantastic insurance policy…some of us have to work…some of us are not married to a man who makes enough money to support a family and some of us dont have a husband..or an ex who pays child support…you really should be more careful in being so judgemental…sometimes judgements will come back and bite you on the butt….