February 12, 2016
My 'Mommy Hat'

Dr. Laura:

There was a story today on my company's intranet site about an employee who recently lost her one year old son due to an accident at the child's daycare.  Our company is sponsoring a 100 day walking challenge and this mother spoke of how this challenge was helping her cope with the loss of her boy.  My co-workers have been talking about this mother's inspiring strength and how sad her story is.  I can't help but think of her poor baby.  If this mother had not gone back to work and stayed at home with her child, would he still be with her today?  

It is stories like these that make me thankful for my mom who stayed home with all four of her kids, and my dad who worked so hard to make that possible.  I don't have the honor of being a mother yet, but I know when that time comes, I will not waste those precious years at work.  I'll spend my days with my children reading, snuggling, making homemade Play-Doh, and stamps out of potatoes like my mom did with my sisters and me.  

I cannot imagine the horrible tragedy of losing a child, but instead of inspiring my fellow co-workers to get in more steps every day, I hope it opened the eyes of the working moms.  Instead of being my co-workers, I would hope they would realize they should go be a mom to their babies.  I look forward to the day I get to turn in my pink slip and put on my
mommy hat.

Lavinia



Posted by Staff at 10:59 AM