Here...let me get that for you...

Sound familiar? I know it's been awhile since you've heard anyone say something like that. Chivalry!! It's dead, extinct, cu-put! But leave it to me to try to bring back the impossible. I promise you now that my son WILL learn chivalry. Opening doors for women, pulling out chairs, carrying groceries...all this stuff that was so romantic about men has gone out the window since us women felt the need to be equal! Now don't get me wrong our equality has brought forth some great changes, but I also think it has sacrificed some great things also! One being a chivalry.

I for one think that men should have never stopped the chivalry. There is something about it that really makes you feel like a woman. One of my ex's was great with this and it really made me feel good. Yes, at first I was a little taken back, but soon I really appreciated it. I think society has achieved the "equality" but I think that we've lost the respect for all that woman do and/or did. This is such a small gesture but really goes far in how it makes a woman feel. It is no not uncommon to see latch key kids. Kids that are left to fend for themselves from the minute they get home from school until their parents get home from work. It's also not rare that these children also are left to get themselves to school because their parents have to be to work. I think this is a lot of the reason our country is in a downward spiral. Stay at Home moms are few and far between, and when the family makes the sacrifices so one parent can stay home...it isn't appreciated like it used to be.

I hate to break it to you but those of you that feel that SAHM/SAHD is not a job title, I would like you to walk a mile in our shoes. I can PROMISE you that we end up more stressed by the end of the day than most working a "regular" 40hr job. The thing most fail to recognize is when we've had enough we cant just blow up, we cant just go take a break..we do not get vacation time, vacation is our same job just in a different area. Yes we chose this career path..and if you asked me if I'd do it again..I would. But don't tell me my job is easy. We wake up some where around 5-7..normal naps are 9:30 and again at 1. I have 2 or 3 extra kids a day and I'm constantly trying to find things to do to keep them occupied. Parents pick them up around 5:30...husband home at 5. From 5-8 I'm working in my shop. I DON'T GET BREAKS...so when you see me and my hair is a mess, I'm still in the clothes I wore yesterday and no make up...do not laugh, do not comment. If you do I cannot be held responsible for my actions there after. My family comes first. I only shower on the days I plan to get a little action or I can ACTUALLY for once get in without someone crying screaming or yelling. I cook I clean I raise children. If all I have to show in the end is a happy family regardless of how much money we have or how much of a mess my home is...I have succeeded. You...you will receive a paycheck-me I will recieve endless love. Which means more to you?

I'm sorry but by far the best jobs women have ever had and will ever have is being a mother. Now I understand mothers that work...I too work. But you cannot disagree with me that our family lives, our childrens lives and our love lives were definitely best when our country wasn't so caught up in the money you make but rather the lives you touch.