The Mommy Wars, Revisited

For years I'd heard about the Mommy Wars: working moms vs stay at home moms. I didn't understand it. Moms do what they have to, or what they choose to. Live and let live. And then...



When I was a Stay At Home Mom (SAHM), the working moms I knew expected me, at a phone call, to drop what I was doing and watch their projectile spewing spawn, as daycare has a somewhat ridiculous rule about small children portraying the exorcist, complete with pea soup, not being able to attend.



These Working Moms assumed that I had nothing better to do. Never mind that if I really did have nothing better to do, it didn't mean I wanted their little possessed bundles of puke spreading their vile disease to my children, and I sure don't enjoy cleaning up vomit any more than your average daycare worker.



Keep in mind that I have never been the 'average housewife' or SAHM. If there even is such a thing. Most people think that because SAHM's don't' have 'real jobs', they do nothing but sit on the couch, munching bon bons, watching Dr. Phil and Oprah. Let me dispel this myth for you, at least from my own perspective:

• I do not own a couch.


• I have never made or purchased bon bons and only eat them at my MIL's because hers are to die for.


• I think Dr Phil is a pompous blowhard and why the heck does Oprah need to be on the cover of her own magazine every single issue? Oh, and I don't even pick up any channels to watch said mind garbage.

I've always had a major project of one sort or another ongoing. This is my third fixer-upper, so there's always been some sort of remodeling in my life. Not to mention gardening, landscaping, blah blah blah, you get the idea.

Fast forward to now, when I am a Working Mom (at least part time), and also a Homesteading/Farmsteading/Striving Toward Self-Sufficiency/Homeschooling Mom. Picture me in conversation with the Stay At Home Moms that I never thought existed: those with enough free time to actually sit on the couch, bon bons or no, watching said drivel on the tube. SAHM's with grown kids, or at least no kids younger than Little Sis, yammering on about some 'project' they would like me to become involved with, or some hobby that I should pick up. (Hah-Be? I know not this word.) Um, yeah, I'll get right on that, in between work, gardening, canning, freezing, blanching, firewood, and the mundane: laundry, cooking, cleaning, bathing. Who needs sleep, right?

I'm starting to see how the Mommy Wars began. If I take prisoners, can I make them haul firewood, or is that against the Geneva Convention?