how do mothers do it?

[LauraMc]

Most of you know I brag about how much my hubby helps with housework. He was sick the past few weeks. They finally put two stents in his leg to solve his problem with the venous malformation. And a week later, he scared me to death with a horrid virus that kept his temp 101 - 103 for 5 days and sent us to the E.R. twice.
Now I know I'm not just bragging about the man. I'm whipped after working, caring for him, cooking, washing dishes, grocery shopping and washing clothes. This was the first time since my exile to Houston that I have done laundry.
How on earth do women take care of a family and work? I don't even have any children to worry about. Here's to mothers........http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/1970_two_smileys_drinking_beer_together.gif

[justagirl]

I don't have any idea. I think giving birth gives woman super powers. I have a co-worker who works M-F with me then she also works Sat and Sun in a bar all day. She's got 2 kids. Fortunately her family is close by to help her out, but I can't imagine how she has time to keep a clean home, help with homework and projects, do laundry, cook dinners, ect. I imagine she sleeps very little. Never mind that she gets next to no time for herself. It's crazy.

[praline]

We love our kids more than anything in this world. So we just do. My baby is 5 today :(, my daughter is now 8. It was like it was yesterday that they were babies and I could hold them and cuddle them forever. While it seemed like it took forever for us to grow up, I have learned children grow up quickly when you are Mom and Dad. The days are finite so I do everything I can to maximize the experience. My reward is my healthy, smart, beautiful children who think I am their hero :)

[bam bam]

While I was staying with my parents during the hurricane, (well actually I never stayed there as I pretty much just dropped off laundry. I was living on my friend Gerry's couch in Manhattan.) my relationship with my mother fell into an irrevocable state of disrepair. When I picked up my laundry, my shirts were not lightly starched as I preferred. In fact they were what some might call the travesty of medium starch. I was so outraged by this that I told my mother that there were women who work who managed a household better than she did.

She didn't like that all that much and we haven't spoken since.

[Pelican Six]

Did she even apologize?

[Occasional Cook]

She could have at least offered to re-launder and iron them properly.

[cstoehr]

While I was staying with my parents during the
She didn't like that all that much and we haven't spoken since.


I am shocked!

[LauraMc]

Bam,

You remind me of my brother. In my last semester of nursing school, my father told me not to work. I had been working 16 hours every Saturday, Sunday & holiday for three years. One night my brother told me that if I was going to continue to live there, I really needed to get a job. At the time, I was 20 and he was 24. He had no job, my father was paying his truck note and giving him spending money. To this day, he doesn't understand why I got ticked off about it. :covri: