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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-134</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Gayla! 

Thanks for coming by!

Well in that manager&#039;s defense, she was  a woman who had never not been in the traditional workforce. I don&#039;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 &quot;from home&quot; 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&#8217;s defense, she was  a woman who had never not been in the traditional workforce. I don&#8217;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 &#8220;from home&#8221; money is starting to get better for me too.</p>
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		<title>By: Gayla McCord</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gayla McCord]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[30 days huh?  Don&#039;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&#039;m right where I need to be.  At home with my kids!

I&#039;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&#039;s just no wondering for me.  I know!  I&#039;ve always known :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>30 days huh?  Don&#8217;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&#8217;m right where I need to be.  At home with my kids!</p>
<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;s just no wondering for me.  I know!  I&#8217;ve always known 🙂</p>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-29</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Melissa!

I don&#039;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&#039;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&#039;ve never known anything else, then that&#039;s what&#039;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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;ve never known anything else, then that&#8217;s what&#8217;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>
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		<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>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband I were just talking about this tonight. We&#039;ve been married for almost 8.5 years now and had our first daughter shortly after we said &quot;I DO.&quot; I&#039;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&#039;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&#039;t want to look back and regret not having spent more time with them. And had I been a working mom, I don&#039;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&#8217;ve been married for almost 8.5 years now and had our first daughter shortly after we said &#8220;I DO.&#8221; I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t want to look back and regret not having spent more time with them. And had I been a working mom, I don&#8217;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>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>https://opinionmom.com/2007/06/25/a-difficult-decision-remembered/#comment-19</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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&#039;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&#8217;t pull that off.</p>
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		<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>
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		<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&#039;t always easy to make sense of.  And then the guilt comes in because we aren&#039;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 &quot;fix&quot; 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&#8230;there is that yearning and it isn&#8217;t always easy to make sense of.  And then the guilt comes in because we aren&#8217;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 &#8220;fix&#8221; everything.</p>
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