I made a choice to be a stay-at-home parent about 30 years ago. When young and single, I was a prestige-seeking, briefcase- carrying, suit-wearing career woman determined to make it in the corporate world because I felt that I had to prove myself to parents (who paid for my college education and wanted more opportunity for their one and only daughter) and prove myself to academics who felt that all women needed to modernize and get involved in the feminist movement which was just beginning to blossom at that time. I felt that I had no value unless I was a college-educated career woman. However.... as the biological clock ticked on with an Energizer bunny battery and my 30’s approached with frightening speed, that “old-fashioned” nesting/nurturing instinct kicked in with equal ferocity and I soon realized that I not only wanted to be a mother but I wanted to make a serious career out of it, much more than any corporate job I had ever had! Fortunately, The Doer of All Things Well h