Everyone has their own opinion...and that's okay.

The other day I ran into a girl I had graduated from high school with. We chatted about what life had brought for these past 20 years and I learned some things. She was apparently pregnant when we graduated and now had 5 children who were all almost grown and she was herself a grandmother. CRAZY! She asked about me and I told her that I had gone to college, worked in advertising for several years and then had my children who were now 7 and 9. She said what do you do? I said Oh, I stay home with them. She looked at me so very confused and said, but you went to college.

I went to a new doctor yesterday. She looks to be about my age. As we talked, she told me that she has two children 1 and 3. She explained to me that because she was a doctor and her husband was a lawyer they had decided that a nanny was a requirement. I was probably just as dumbfounded as my former classmate who couldn't understand why I was wasting a college education on being a mom. I don't understand why on earth people have children if they don't want to raise them.

Before everyone gets all mad at me I'm not talking about parents who have to work because if they don't there isn't going to be food on the table. I'm talking about a lawyer dad and a doctor mom who have decided to hire someone to care for their children the majority of the waking hours.

That is about as foreign to me as the going to college to stay home is to my former classmate. I can't wrap my brain around it and it drives me crazy. I can stand on a soap box and argue until I am blue in the face about why people should stay home with their children but you know what? That is my opinion, and other people have their opinion and it takes a whole bunch of opinions to make this world go around and if everyone thought exactly like me it would be a very boring world.

So, your thought for today is to respect other's opinions. I'm not going religious or political on this because that is much deeper than the big blue chair can handle for this morning. I'm just saying there is a reason that when you go into a grocery store there are umpteen million different flavors of ice cream. There are a lot of us sharing this little planet and we all need to get along. We don't all think alike, we don't all look alike, but we all have something in common. We are all human and God loves us. Today celebrate who you are, but don't criticize someone else for who they are. You are the chocolate chip and they are the cherry vanilla.

Have a wonderful day my sweet friends!