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"  It&amp;#039;s time for me to decide whether to continue my holiday into 2010. I created &amp;quot;Please Take My Children to Work Day,&amp;quot; a holiday for full- and part-time at-home moms, years ago when I was (mostly) a stay-at-home mom of two little kids. I knew that at-home moms wouldn&amp;#039;t take time for themselves, and that few people would believe they deserved or needed it. So I made it official by creating the holiday. Over the years, the holiday, held annually in June, has even been officially declared by governors in several states. But now that I&amp;#039;m (mostly) a working (at home) mom, I wonder: Should I stick my neck out for at-home moms, especially when, last year, an angry mob of moms took offense for what amounts to eight hours off for moms who have no sick days, vacation days or holidays, and chased me across the Internet? Should I send in the holiday renewal papers? Uh, yes. Yes, because I believe that all moms deserve a day off, but at-home moms in particular need a voice as so many of them are with their kids upwards of 100 hours a week doing the same thing over and over with nary a break. Also, because I believe we can and should all get along, whether we get a paycheck or not. That&amp;#039;s why I like to visit all sorts of web sites for moms, at-home, work-at-home or work-in-an-office moms. I get the inside scoop on all sorts of issues which helps me understand where we&amp;#039;re all coming from. And frankly, we share a lot of the same concerns, no matter what the angry mob says. Here are a few of my favorite sites: WAHM 2.0 ( http://www.sparkplugging.com/wahm/) Kelly McCausey&amp;#039;s blog, which is housed on Sparkplugging.com, claims &amp;quot;This isn&amp;#039;t your mother&amp;#039;s work-at-home business.&amp;quot; And it isn&amp;#039;t your mom&amp;#039;s blog, either. Kelly, the host of Moms Talk Radio, covers all sorts of work-at-home issues that go beyond the usual space and time issues. Recently, she wrote about a mom who implored, My Husband Left And I Still Want To Stay Home!&amp;quot; Kelly&amp;#039;s advice: She should pack up and move in with her parents, because, &amp;quot;By securing a roof over her head and help with the kids, she can be more free to build a new business that will eventually support her and the kids.&amp;quot; Kelly features work-at-home profiles of all sorts of moms who&amp;#039;ve created businesses around their kids&amp;#039; stuff and schedules. And she maintains a great rule for brainstorming: &amp;quot;If I don&amp;#039;t come up with an answer, I&amp;#039;m probably asking the wrong question.&amp;quot; Ah, but WAHM 2.0 has so many right answers. Check it out. How Does She Do It? ( http://www.mommytrackd.com/features/wendysachs) Wendy Sachs&amp;#039; blog, housed on MommyTrack&amp;#039;d.com, touches on the anxieties that affect all mothers, but some are specific to moms who work outside the house. An award-winning television producer, former Capitol Hill press secretary and the author of How She Really Does It: Secrets of Successful Stay-at-Work Moms, Wendy worries that the choices our generation of mothers has make life too complicated. In &amp;quot;Who Wants to be a Super Mom? she writes, &amp;quot;Technology has created a 24/7 work week with longer hours and no boundaries.&amp;quot; As someone who has been interviewed for a newspaper article on my cell phone outside my son&amp;#039;s choir practice, I agree completely. Whether you&amp;#039;ve got a paying job or not, Wendy&amp;#039;s blog is a must-read for today&amp;#039;s moms. The Chronicles of a SAHM ( http://www.napwarden.com/)Cynthia Davis, a.k.a. &amp;quot;The Keeper of Naps and Sanity&amp;quot; has taken it upon herself to tell the neighborhood it&amp;#039;s high time to take down the Christmas wreaths off their front doors. (Guilty as charged. I&amp;#039;m glad Cynthia doesn&amp;#039;t live around here.) This at-home mom of two little ones spends her days searching for stuff around the house, contemplating the best way to get us out of this banking crisis and photographing the laziest creature on earth. It&amp;#039;s no wonder: She seems to suffer from that common at-home mom affliction...She says she has no mom friends in The Big City, even though she had loads of friends when she was single, back when &amp;quot;Life was one big bucket of fun.&amp;quot; She finds herself comparing herself to other moms, even TV ones: &amp;quot;First, could Kelly Rippa be any tinier?&amp;quot; She adds, &amp;quot;I know it&amp;#039;s just a commercial. It might be that it just speaks to all of the inadequacies I feel every day when it comes to running my little household.&amp;quot; Yep, been there, done that. Sounds like Cynthia could use a day off. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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