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I had always decided that if I ever had kids, I would leave my job and stay home with them, in one capacity or another. I mean I never really thought I was going to have kids, and I was chronically dissatisfied with my jobs, so I chalked it up as one of those like-that-will-really-ever-happen scenarios we all speculate about and left it at that.
And then I got pregnant. Not only was I not married but I was at the beginning of an illustrious career as a college professor. I had just published my first textbook and I was working 12 hour days and loving it. Here it was - the world chewing up my famous last words and spitting them right in my face.
© 2006, Kristen Chase ( motherhooduncensored.typepad.com)