When I went to K-4 at our church all the way across the street from our house, my mother told me that she went home and cried and then came back, sat in the parking lot, and cried some more and waited until I came out.
She also told me that she was thinking about and planning towards going back to work when I was in school. This book changed her mind. She said that I came out to get in the car one afternoon with it behind my back and was SO excited to show her that I had finished this first workbook and was now allowed to bring it home! She said that that night she told my dad that she would have been said if anyone else had gotten to share in that excitement with me and that she did not want to go back to work!
My mom often joked that she needed a taxi sign for her car and that she was a professional grade mother/room mom for me at school and she was amazing at those things. I think that being a mom (working outside the home also, or solely at home or anywhere in between) is the greatest (and some days the hardest) job in the whole world and one of the most important! I love being able to go on field trips and eat lunch with Ashley-sadly parent visitors at middle school lunch are not really appreciated! and do things with/for them that being at home allows me and this book was the beginning of it.
Until I became a mom myself I didn't appreciate enough all that my mom did for me and am glad that I have the opportunity to do the same for our children!
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