I was talking to my own mother this morning about the latest media frenzy over motherhood. My mom also raised five boys (plus a daughter — me). She also did her time as a stay-at-home mom, but also a working married mom, a single mom, a work-at-home mom (I remember months when our dining room was covered with legal folders from a big class action suit she was working on) and just about any of other type of mothering you can think of. She was also started raising her kids about ten years before Ann, but her youngest was born the same year as Ann's second oldest, so there is a significant overlap in time, too.
So we're chatting along and then she told me, "I just posted a blog about it."
I said, "Mom, you really should talk about that at Daily Kos."
"I'm 75 years old and the fact that I'm blogging at all is pretty darn good," she replied.
So on the other side of the squiggle, I'll put some of her thoughts because she really is an expert on the subject. And if you want to see what else she has to say, you could read the rest on her blog. She loves the traffic. Thanks
My mother's blog: http://outfrontpolitics.blogspot.com/
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2012
Ann Romney "At Home" with $20 Million a Year
It doesn't matter whether Ann Romney stayed at home to raise her five sons. Nobody cares.
What matters is that she stayed at home to be a full-time mom with millions of dollars of annual income. Maybe when her sons were young the family income was lots less than the $20 million annually of recent years. Maybe it was only 10%, only $2 million a year.
That's still an awful lot of money.
I raised five sons and a daughter. Sometimes I was a full-time stay-at-home mom; sometimes I was a married working mom; and sometimes I was a single parent working mom. In any of these situations I sure would have been glad to have millions of dollars in annual income.
Think how different being a mom is when you've got bushels of money! You can hire household help - lots of it. Someone else can cook, clean up the kitchen, do the laundry, fold the clothes, do the marketing, pick up the kids, wash the dog (when he's not on the roof of the car). Someone else can go to the dry cleaners, sweep the porch, call the plumber, make the beds, pick up after the kids, pick up after the kids, pick up after the kids. Someone else can bake the birthday cakes, wrap the presents, address the holiday cards, take your various Cadillacs to be serviced, schedule the pediatrician appointments and the dentist appointments and the barber shop appointments. Someone else can take the kids to get shoes and school clothes. Someone else can make sure teeth are brushed and ears are clean.
You get the picture.
So that's the beginning of it. You can read the rest here:
http://outfrontpolitics.blogspot.com/
And if anyone has some suggestions about how I can get her writing for a wider audience, I'd appreciate the information. I think it is super that she's writing these and posting almost every day. My mother is amazing and I'd love to be able to share her wisdom, experience, and insight with more people without overtaxing her.