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MOTHERHOOD IS TOUGH
I read recently that the average housewife has some “105,823 Tasks Demanding Her Daily Attention.” (We do not know the original source, but we have been told that the figures were provided by a female homemaker) That figure is true whether she works outside the home or not. Another woman wrote: On the twelfth day of Christmas
My littlest love gave to me
Twelve dogs a-leaping
Eleven cats a-creeping
Ten fingers gripping
Nine toes a- tripping
Eight drinks a-spilling
Seven glasses filling
Six friends and things
Five telephone rings
Four crayoned walls
Three loud calls
Two kisses free
And one mother up a pear tree. Today, that’s where a lot of mothers are — up a pear tree! They feel no one cares, no one understands, no one appreciates, and that what they do is not important.