<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title>Comments on: A Difficult Decision Remembered</title> <atom:link href="https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/</link> <description>A mom gives her opinions on life and stuff.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:41:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.32</generator> <item> <title>By: Laura</title> <link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-134</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:18:04 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-134</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hi Gayla! Thanks for coming by! Well in that manager's defense, she was a woman who had never not been in the traditional workforce. I don't think she was even a mom. Your comment about placing God first and family second is so true! We are much better money managers now than we ever were before AND the "from home" money is starting to get better for me too.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Gayla! </p> <p>Thanks for coming by!</p> <p>Well in that manager’s defense, she was a woman who had never not been in the traditional workforce. I don’t think she was even a mom.</p> <p>Your comment about placing God first and family second is so true! We are much better money managers now than we ever were before AND the “from home” money is starting to get better for me too.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>By: Gayla McCord</title> <link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-133</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gayla McCord]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:59:45 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-133</guid> <description><![CDATA[30 days huh? Don't you just love that? For me, I truly believe God is blessing me more and more as each month passes as a way of letting me know I'm right where I need to be. At home with my kids! I've always felt that when you place God first and your family second, everything else just seems to fall into place. There have been times when I was truly amazed at where the money would come from when I needed it most. Somehow it was just there. How else besides a divine force keeping things right? There's just no wondering for me. I know! I've always known :)]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>30 days huh? Don’t you just love that?</p> <p>For me, I truly believe God is blessing me more and more as each month passes as a way of letting me know I’m right where I need to be. At home with my kids!</p> <p>I’ve always felt that when you place God first and your family second, everything else just seems to fall into place.</p> <p>There have been times when I was truly amazed at where the money would come from when I needed it most. Somehow it was just there. How else besides a divine force keeping things right?</p> <p>There’s just no wondering for me. I know! I’ve always known 🙂</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>By: Laura</title> <link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-29</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:35:50 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-29</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hi Melissa! I don't want to mislead you. In my case it took quite a few years as a working mom before I was able to make the decision to stay at home. I really related to Dana's story, especially the part about going to work missing my kids. I remember crying on the way to work. I think what you said about being accustomed to one income is true. If you've never known anything else, then that's what's normal for you. For us, we had become accustomed to two incomes. Having me stay at home seemed totally impossible. I still come to the end of every month with a tremendous feeling of awe that it worked and gratitude that God has seen us through another month.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Melissa!</p> <p>I don’t want to mislead you. In my case it took quite a few years as a working mom before I was able to make the decision to stay at home. I really related to Dana’s story, especially the part about going to work missing my kids. I remember crying on the way to work.</p> <p>I think what you said about being accustomed to one income is true. If you’ve never known anything else, then that’s what’s normal for you. </p> <p>For us, we had become accustomed to two incomes. Having me stay at home seemed totally impossible. I still come to the end of every month with a tremendous feeling of awe that it worked and gratitude that God has seen us through another month.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>By: Melissa R. Garrett</title> <link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-28</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa R. Garrett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:00:28 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-28</guid> <description><![CDATA[My husband I were just talking about this tonight. We've been married for almost 8.5 years now and had our first daughter shortly after we said "I DO." I've been an at-home mom (now to three kids) this whole time, even going back to school for a bit. Money is TIGHT. However, we've always managed on one income, and we know nothing else. These times I have with my kids, as difficult as they may be some days, is fleeting. I don't want to look back and regret not having spent more time with them. And had I been a working mom, I don't think I would ever have had the thought or made the decision to start my writing career. I can do it all on my terms, even, and not feel as though I have to sell an article because we need the money. I can actually take my time.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My husband I were just talking about this tonight. We’ve been married for almost 8.5 years now and had our first daughter shortly after we said “I DO.” I’ve been an at-home mom (now to three kids) this whole time, even going back to school for a bit. Money is TIGHT. However, we’ve always managed on one income, and we know nothing else. These times I have with my kids, as difficult as they may be some days, is fleeting. I don’t want to look back and regret not having spent more time with them. And had I been a working mom, I don’t think I would ever have had the thought or made the decision to start my writing career. I can do it all on my terms, even, and not feel as though I have to sell an article because we need the money. I can actually take my time.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>By: Laura</title> <link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-19</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:29:48 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-19</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hi Dana! I think that somehow our generation was raised with unrealistic expectations. We expect that we should be superwoman, and we feel guilty when we don't pull that off.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Dana!</p> <p>I think that somehow our generation was raised with unrealistic expectations. We expect that we should be superwoman, and we feel guilty when we don’t pull that off.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>By: Dana</title> <link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-18</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:58:51 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-18</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this as well! It is a hard decision. We are so full of different, often conflicting ideas of what it means to be a woman and mother...there is that yearning and it isn't always easy to make sense of. And then the guilt comes in because we aren't living up to what we think are the expectations. At least that was something of a problem for me. But I needed to get past the idea that simply being home was somehow magically going to "fix" everything.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this as well! It is a hard decision. We are so full of different, often conflicting ideas of what it means to be a woman and mother…there is that yearning and it isn’t always easy to make sense of. And then the guilt comes in because we aren’t living up to what we think are the expectations.</p> <p>At least that was something of a problem for me. But I needed to get past the idea that simply being home was somehow magically going to “fix” everything.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>