HARDEST WORKER? MOMS FOR THE WIN

Who is the hardest worker you know?

If it’s not your Mom, or the mother of your children, you’re wrong.

I know this how?

Every baby boomer knows the answer.

Our moms were fifties women for the most part.

I’ll stick with my mom to keep things simple.

Like many of the era, my mom had plans which isn’t a surprise given her mom was a big planner.

My Grandma’s plan was to avoid poorly adjusted men after her first marriage ended in the 1930’s.

Luckily for her and her daughter, my mom, she found a good man at the right time.

Then she proceeded to make a real family.

My mom followed the Grandma-plan and found a good man and started a real family.

She and Grandma had lots in common, but my mom gets the big win because of the Korean War.

Her dreamboat joined the Marines, shipped out, and wrote her letters.

Love letters?

They got married, so there was something going on.

She got the biggest win for convincing her husband to leave the Marine Corps when he was on a career fast track with one promotion after another.

I asked him later how he thought that career would have worked out.

“I would have gone to Vietnam early and been killed,” he said.

Kudos for the hardest worker for saving her old man.

Why Are Moms The Hardest Worker Around?

It’s pretty clear when a man marries a woman and they have children together.

If the kids are young and squirrelly, mom gets the blame; if they get worse with each year, dad gets the blame.

No one will say it, but there’s a look, a phrase that says it all.

“Bless your heart,” is a start.

People without kids know they could raise yours better than you.

So do people with kids. But that doesn’t mean family failure.

The hardest worker moms ignore the attitude on the outside and focus on getting things right.

The mother of my kids, also known as my wife, set an incredible example.

But her good example wasn’t the same as conventional wisdom would have it, which made her an even better momma: her kids wouldn’t be cookie-cutter versions of either of us.

Millennial Moms

Things always change, right?

Is motherhood part of the change?

What I’ve seen in real life are moms, millennial moms, who embrace the challenge.

My children have found partners that fit the family mold.

They will put their kids first, guide them in their school work, coach their teams.

And I can’t wait.

Every stage of being a granddad has it’s rewards, from being a nap-landing pad to walking buddy, but I’m looking forward to watching and helping grand babies at every stage.

Will that make me the hardest worker?

No, but I’ll keep trying, along with hardest worker moms.

Isn’t that the granddad job?