easy bake coven | since 2002

To Work Or Not To Work


For me, it's an ongoing dilemma. When I'm working, I yearn to be home as a 'Stay At Home Mom' . After I'm home for a while, I wish to be working again. To bring in more scratch, to expand my career wings. I fought as a women's libber for the right to have it all in the early 70's. 'I am woman, hear me roar'. [Hear me barf if I ever hear that song or mantra again] I have that choice guilt-free, don't I? I have that choice anyway. Now I've been a SAHM long enough to get the itch to go back to work. My youngest child is 14. Can I work again without guilt? Or does that not happen until she's 18, or on her own? Will I ever feel normal about the decision to work? Or will I always feel like I can contribute more if I stay at home? How do other moms manage to hold it together? Or do they have this internal struggle as well. I sure have a lot of questions today, don't I?