<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/StDeYrTrSYI/AAAAAAAABhQ/Ejw3-OdcbPU/s1600-h/DSC05996.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/StDeYrTrSYI/AAAAAAAABhQ/Ejw3-OdcbPU/s400/DSC05996.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391053269485963650" /></a><br />I've been a work-at-home mom for the past two years, and let me be the first to tell you: It ain't an easy gig.<br /><br />To all you moms who find out how I spend my days – juggling work and caring for a 19-month-old boy and a husband who works full time and attends night classes at Oklahoma State – and wax poetic about how much you'd love to be able to work from home so you could spend more time with your kids, I say, walk a mile in my shoes. That way, when you are still talking about how much easier and serene my life seems than your work-outside-the-home-mom life, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have my shoes.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ttownmoms.com/?page=blogs/view&amp;BLID=6270"></a><div><a href="http://www.ttownmoms.com/?page=blogs/view&amp;BLID=6270" style="text-decoration: none;">Read the rest of this story on my blog at Ttownmoms.com</a>.</div>