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WHAT
IN THE WORLD DOES A MOM DO ALL DAY? (Taken from Focus on the Family, April 1994, written by
Linda Weber) Being a mom is a job with a capital J. We work our fingers
to the bone, push our nerves to the edge and use every skill we have to
accomplish the day’s demands. Just what does a mother do all day? Today’s college
student can’t imagine. Numbers of women are baffled by what they’d do with
“all that time” if they had to be home. Sometimes Mom herself can’t
remember. Well, what am I? I’m the following: baby feeder, changer, bather,
rocker, burper, hugger and listener to crying and fussing and thousands of
questions picker-upper of food and debris
cast on the floor comforter, encourager,
counselor linguistic expert for
two-year-old dialects listener--to the husband and
the children--about their day, their needs, their concerns, their aspirations teacher of everything from how
to chew food to how to drive a car assistant on school projects censor of TV, movies and books reader of thousands of
children’s books planner and hostess of
children’s birthday parties planner and hostess of dinner
parties central control for getting the
appliance fixed or the carpet shampooed executioner of ants, roaches,
wasps and other pests resident historian in charge of
photo albums, baby books and school record books resident encyclopedia source
for all those hard questions defroster of the freezer food preservation expert keeper and locator of birth
certificates and other valuable documents ironer of wrinkles appointment desk for the
family’s visits to the doctor, the dentist, the orthodontist, the barber and
the mechanic one who prays cleaner of the oven, the
drawers, the closets, the garage, the curtains, the windows and even the walls refinisher of furniture emergency medical technician
and ambulance driver hubby’s romantic, attentive
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