Irreverent look at life today, relationships, family and health, because of course I am a perfect mother, wife, friend... Oh yeah! http://mmadison./ en-us Webligo BlogHoster Years ago, I went on a mini ski trip with my then-husband and another couple. Yes I am making a point, I promise. We didn't take many vacations except as a family. I never liked to stay away from my children for very long. I guess it was because my birth mother abandoned me when I was two years old and I never wanted my children to feel abandoned. Maybe I need to see a shrink... but I digress. <p class="MsoNormal">We were in the car, the men in front and my friend and I in the back chatting and knitting. We talked about different things, nothing of consequence, until she asked me if I liked my job. I was a sales rep for a software company. Yeah I liked my job, I got to travel to different cities in the province where I lived and even across the country some. She worked part time at a butcher shop. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">She started rambling on about how she couldn&rsquo;t understand me and my ambition because to her, family was the most important thing. Well, I'll say! I was a little surprised and hurt that she would think family is more important to her than it was to me. After all, we&rsquo;d known each other for at least five years; we&rsquo;d been through the birth of our youngest kids together.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I got me thinking later that women are so petty and jealous. We have to find fault with someone with a career and children because we know we can&rsquo;t do it all, and we think they can. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I did get my little schadenfreude (look it up at <font face="Arial"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude</a>&nbsp;I love the word!)</font>&nbsp;later that year. Our oldest children went to a week long school trip and were coming back a Friday afternoon. I was two hours away at a sales call with the president of the company I was working for. At 2PM, I excused myself and explained the situation. I had to get home and pick up my son who was coming back from a school trip. He'd been gone a whole week and I missed him. Everybody was understanding and my president drove me back to the office so I could pick up my car. I got to the school just as the bus was pulling up. My friend, who worked ten minutes away, could not take a half hour to pick up her daughter. She sent the babysitter instead. Family is important indeed.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sponsored by EnterTo.com the first REAL <a href="http://mail.enterto.com/signup.html">spam free email</a><br /> <br />Click Below to discover and share content from anywhere on the web<br /> <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> http://mmadison.3steps.com/20386/