Stay At Home Thinker

Was listening to NPR this morning and recalled a story told me by my "West Coast Mom" (mother of my best friend from university, lives in Vancouver, B.C.). On a trip up there once, I was mildly lamenting the fact that often it seems that being a stay-at-home mom garners you about three minutes of "hm...interesting" at parties, and then it's on to someone with a more glamorous 9 to 5. She patted me on the shoulder and said, "well, Heather, I had a similar feeling back when Camille and Peter were young, and then I actually ended up at an event where a male family friend told me that he much preferred to talk to stay-at-home mothers because they listened to CBC all day!"

I certainly felt a lot better about things after that, but also realized, I'm more of a driving-in-the-car-endlessly thinker. This whole stay at home thing is a LIE.