LadyMama in the Jewish Standard!

http://www.jstandard.com/supplement/item/19207

Check out LadyMama Mimi Hecht on the cover of The Jewish Standard's "About Our Children" magazine! Click on the link to check out the article and read about LadyMama and some other fab mama bloggers!

My Daycare Journey

By Mimi Hecht

 "Working from home with an adventurous and constantly hungry

 toddler is akin to riding a boat on pavement - it just doesn't happen."

MY DAYCARE JOURNEY

So how exactly did I know it was time to send my first child into the world of daycare? How did I realize I was ready for the next stage of his barely two-year-old life, sending him off every day into some other woman's competent arms?

In short, I was going nuts. 

There, I said it. I know, I know - that's not exactly a feel-good explanation, not a thought-out analyzation of his little-man needs. I was just losing my mind. You see, I'm not a stay-at-home mom. I mean, I definitely do stay at home, hardly ever putting on makeup or any other shoe wear but slippers. But it's not because I belong to the noble group of women who dedicate all their days towards caring for and occupying their little ones at home. It's because I work from home. And let me tell you, working from home with an adventurous and constantly hungry toddler is akin to riding a boat on pavement - it just doesn't happen. Every time I would sit at the computer to work, my 20-month old would think I was starting "Elmo" or "Eli" from Mitzvah Boulevard. When he kvetched and shrieked his way into my lap only to discover a boring document of "ABCs," the scream got louder. The result? No work. Just lot's of puppets.

The SAHM vs. The Working Mom

Check out these two cartoon monologues of two very differnt kinds of moms!
Found and sent by LadyMama Rochi Benjaminson from Brooklyn, NY.