Watch your toes, I have big feet. Seriously, size 10.

My next assignment in my speech class is a persuasive speech. Honestly, I cannot express how much I do not like the subject matter of this course, but again... it's required so I have to tough it out. I'm not into researching and talking about something I don't know anything about, sure I might learn something, but isn't it bad enough to have to record myself talking to a camera while my husband makes odd expressions for 5-7 minutes. That's a long time! So I pick subjects that I know a little bit about, for example, my first speech was an introduction speech. No problem, I know all about myself. Second speech was the informational, I chose how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This speech, persuasive. Problem, what do I know enough about to try to persuade someone that it's the way to be? What do I choose?

The pros of being a stay at home mom. Why? Because there are a lot of pros to being a stay at home mom. The con... not being able to list the cons. I don't want to come across like some super mom because I'm not, I'm average mom who sometimes exceeds expectations or occasionally falls below the line. I'm human mom. Regardless, I was required to post my outline a week in advance and while her comments are normally sugary sweet and over the top, mine was not so now I'm feeling discouraged and intimidated. I know she's a mom, I think to a 4 year old boy and she probably has some kind of daycare because let's face it, educators are seriously underpaid. I wasn't trying to step on her toes or claim some kind of superiority over her. I am a stay at home mom because I do not have my college degree and therefore it is cheaper for me to stay at home with the kids then work some minimum wage job and hand my entire paycheck over to some daycare. I didn't choose this, I'm grateful for the opportunity and no, I wouldn't change it for the world, but I think parenting is not easy and there is no perfect way to raise a child and so I do not look down on using childcare, it just wasn't how my family ended up.