It's Sunday. That means I am tired for no good reason and under-motivated. However, it is also my assigned day to post at BlogHer, so I wrote up a rambling essay on how child care workers are completely screwed by our dysfunctional American society that needs women to work but insists that they are bad mothers if they work.
On another note of American dysfunction, I received a nice letter yesterday from my unsurance company with a detailed explanation of why they rejected my bilateral breast MRI. It turns out that my doctor is a lazy son of a bitch who neglected to submit very basic information such as: the age of my first menstrual period, my age at first live birth, the number of previous breast biopsies including the pathology and my ethnicity. Perhaps this information would make no difference at all, but it certainly is not hard to submit. There are 45 days in which this information can be submitted for consideration. I shall call the unsurance company myself tomorrow. Then I will search for a new doctor. Bah.
Otherwise, Husband and I had a delightful Saturday. We visited Dianne and her precocious daughter and fun husband for the day. Steph also joined us for good eating at a hibachi grill place and two rounds of bowling. We raced back to the City to join Dr. H for her 30th birthday bash, which was fun. (Dianne's birthday was this past Thursday, so happy belated birthday to her!)
Maybe my lethargy is explained by a Diet Coke, cake, cookie, and Jelly Belly hangover? My hard partying ways are catching up to me...
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Oh, you hit such a nerve with me. I went and read your blog-her post too. Awesome. Totally awesome and we are on such the same wave-length.
ReplyDeleteI make a really decent salary. When my kids were in day care I sent them to the "best." This cost more than my undergrad AND graduate school. The teachers were absolutely awesome and got paid not very much (my best friend also worked at that school - and it is the best day care in the city. She was treated well, but not paid very well.) Even things like insurance wasn't great at this school. She quit and went back to school to become an elementary school teacher.
I love your comment that in America - society needs women to work (and often requires it - if they want a house and a regular life) but insists that they are bad mothers IF they work. Can I tell you how many times the MEN I work with tell me how great it is that their wives get to stay at home to RAISE THEIR KIDS??? Damn... I raise my kids too. I do work, but my kids now go to school. I absolutely ban Dr. Laura anywhere where I can hear. My kids so far are happy and productive and smart. May not be when they are teenagers, but so far it isn't destorying them too much.
My mom was a working mom and I'm not terribly screwed up. Maybe a little, but at least I'm not a drain on society.
Thanks for your post it was a really good one!
Cindy aka Hecticmomundone.
Thanks Cindy. I find it unfathomable that your co-workers would say something so obnoxious to you, but then again, people never fail to surprise me with their capacity for being douche nozzles. And when your kids are teens, they probably will be miserable, but that's because all teens are. Yours will be the positive and healthy kind of miserable, though. :)
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