What kind of weird job do you have?

Until the moment you are holding your child, you will wonder this. I did, but I don't anymore. I had a job I loved, and was making good money doing it. I had planned on going back to work again shortly after the (first) baby was born, but after that 6 week mark, I couldn't do it! That's when I became a full time mom. And that's what I still am today. We have another baby now,and our first is 5 years old. My husband and I BOTH chose to stay home with our children. I work about 15 or 20 hours a week, on the weekends, and at night after he gets home. This is my BREAK (lol) and one of us is always home with them. I started back when the second baby was 8 weeks old, for the first time. On my resume I wrote that I was a full time mother, which is what I am. To me, that comes before everything. That is my job now. I really don't think this little part time job I have now will be a thing to me in 15 years, but my kids and the work I've done with them will always be with me. There will be another job waiting for me when they're grown and I'm bored, and that's the one I'll take. I understand if you're trying to build a career, and that's great. There are also options of taking classes on line now, and you could maybe add to the career of your choice in that way, and then you could have that behind you as you re-enter the work force. Until you're faced with the reality of raising a family, you'll never truly understand the magnitude of your role. "The measure of success to me, is not the kind you spend...it's the way your children speak of you when talking to their friends." That's a quote from my own mother. She wrote it down for me, and I still carry it around on an old crinkled peice of paper. That was 12 years ago! I think it means more now to me than it did when I made her write it! :^)