Talent and Brains-A New Breed of Young Women

I was a teacher and been "in the classroom" for ten years. With the birth of our first child, I took the maternity leave, found day care and went back to work. Then the second child arrived and we followed the same routine. Then it all went foul. The children were seemingly always sick. We tried to make it work until one day my husband said: "You need to stay at home with these kids. This is not working." I had never occurred to me to give up my career for which I had carefully planned and studied for. I even completed a master's degree to earn top pay at my position. He was correct, though, so stay at home I did. For five years I was a stay at home mom. I took pride at homemaking and rearing the kids. I had an immaculate home, brilliant children, supper on the table every night and a skinny body (probably from the pace I kept!). But something was lacking. Considering myself an expert seamstress I decided that I could augment our one salar