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"I mentioned recently that I&amp;#039;m worried Emmett will like his nanny more than he likes me, so some of you suggested I try being a &amp;quot;full-time mom&amp;quot;*. But I can&amp;#039;t! First of all, while Rory&amp;#039;s salary is great, he doesn&amp;#039;t make enough to support the three of us if we&amp;#039;re going to continue living in Brooklyn. (And saving for our future.) Of course we could move to the &amp;#039;burbs, but Rory doesn&amp;#039;t get home &amp;#039;til 8 p.m. as it is; we&amp;#039;d never see him if he had a real commute. Besides, we&amp;#039;re just not ready for Connecticut yet. And even if Rory were making $2 million a day, I still don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;d want to be a stay-at-home mom. I really enjoy my career. I&amp;#039;m proud of what I&amp;#039;ve accomplished and excited for what I&amp;#039;m going to accomplish. And I like that my job allows me to interact regularly with grown-ups who have no opinion on Pampers vs. Huggies and are oblivious to the scandalous Sponge Bob news. (For the record, Team Pampers, and theres&amp;#039;s a reason Emmett doesn&amp;#039;t watch TV!) Plus\u2014and this is harder to admit\u2014I&amp;#039;m just not that good at doing 12 hours straight of baby stuff. I love my baby with every ounce of love I have, but after eight consecutive readings of Let Your Light Shine!, Emmett&amp;#039;s current favorite, I&amp;#039;d rather smack myself in the face with the book than read it for the ninth time. I&amp;#039;m happy to take him to the park, the zoo, the aquarium, the children&amp;#039;s museum\u2014heck, I&amp;#039;ve taken him on field trips to Target just to get us out of the house. But doing that stuff all day, every day just doesn&amp;#039;t appeal to me. And I think that&amp;#039;s okay. I didn&amp;#039;t go into this &amp;quot;mom&amp;quot; thing thinking I&amp;#039;d be the type of woman who&amp;#039;d want to be a stay-at-home mom. (Not that there&amp;#039;s anything wrong with stay-at-home moms! It&amp;#039;s just not the job for me. Please don&amp;#039;t freak out on me\u2014unless you&amp;#039;re also going to freak out on Rory for not wanting to be a stay-at-home dad.) Are you a stay-at-home mom? Do you plan to be one day? Or will you always be in the workforce? * I hate the term &amp;quot;full-time mom.&amp;quot; As my wise, working-mom friend Deb once said, &amp;quot;EVERY mom is a full-time mom. You don&amp;#039;t stop being a mom when you go to work.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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