I can sometimes feel that I don’t have a “job” anymore since my daughters are grown. But yes, we do still have important work to do! I appreciate you sharing this affirmation, Lynn. Regardless of our work, we all appreciate encouragement to keep going strong in it.

Yes, it’s often hard to find words to try to explain our choices to someone who doesn’t understand. I suppose in an ideal world, we’d all just accept each other’s differences and move on. 🙂 Courtney’s book does help with a lot of this, but doesn’t eliminate it altogether; we have to each figure out the specifics on our own. Blessings as you do that, Dawn.

What a fantastic subject to write on and affirm others in! I have been heard making those bumbling efforts to try to explain what I do, and more often than not it was the defensive remarks to home education as opposed to stay-at-home momma. I still find myself back-peddling with the homeshcooling discussion, though I shouldn’t. Courtney’s book looks amazing.
Thanks for sharing this at the #GraceMoments Link Up.

Blessings,
Dawn

The author actually touches on having a housekeeper, and says no shame, even for stay-at-home moms! 🙂 Yes, I think most women (men too? I don’t know) fall into the trap of thinking we should do it all, whether we work inside or outside the home. But no one can do it all, as every woman anywhere can attest! Thanks for sharing your insights, Jean.

If you’re a mom of 5 kids, you definitely work hard, Julie! 🙂 If anyone doesn’t consider that a “real” job, perhaps they haven’t tried it themselves. ha.

This book would probably make you feel better, Rosanna. 🙂 It is very affirming to whatever work we are doing, without having to do more and more (although the author herself does “more” by writing books! ha). Regardless of our profession, at home or elsewhere, I suppose we all have to fight that feeling of “not enough” from time to time.

Those are two good aspects to bring up, David. (1) Hmm…I don’t recall the book making a distinction between why a person is at home, whether by choice or by circumstances. But if I had to narrow it down, I’d say the arguments tilt toward affirming the choice to be home. Could just be my perception though. (2) Yes, I definitely think the book’s points could apply towards ANY job, whether at home or not. The author didn’t often say that explicitly, but I often that it myself as I was reading. Even in my days as an accountant, I often felt the work wasn’t very meaningful, despite getting a paycheck and good benefits. So a book like this might have helped me value the work more at the time.
America also has less and less mom-and-pop bookstores; even the large retail bookstores struggle. Amazon has gobbled up the market (but I confess, to which I had a contributor). I’m still a huge public library patron though, so no store gets much money from me for books. 🙂