I Gave a Dozen Years To Be a Stay-at-Home-Mom

And I’m Really Proud of That

Photo by Alexander Dummer on Unsplash

I am a child of the seventies and eighties, when we were told that we could have it all — career, motherhood, marriage — the whole ball of wax. Women were wearing big, floppy bows where men wore neckties, and they were headed to Wall Street with briefcases and navy blue skirt-suits.