It’s Mother’s Day week (yes, we’re mommies for ever, so we might as well take the whole week), and flower orders are at an all-time high. After all, Mother’s Day accounts for one-fourth of the floral purchases made for holidays. For the last few years, I’ve been exercising my right of choice when it comes to floral gifts for Mommy Day. Basically, as far as I’m concerned, forget flowers, get me some shoes!
Don’t get me wrong, flowers are cute (especially for that price)! It’s also largely assumed they’re what most moms want for Mother’s Day, that and the Pandora bracelet from the commercial when blindfolded kids try to recognize their moms and moms get to feel extra special because 1) their kid claimed them, and 2) now their significant other will have to fork out the cash to buy jewelry to celebrate all that love. Anyways…
Just like in the workplace, or at least most workplaces, where it’s also largely assumed all moms want is work-life balance and smashing the glass ceiling while teaching our little ones how to code. Yet what is often overlooked is that the same way you can’t lump all moms under the same $19.95 deal at Proflowers, you can’t get a work-life bundle for all working mothers either.
Some of us moms do want the pretty flowers, and ideal work-life balance (which by the way is just as elusive as it is never ideal). Others don’t feel the need to do it all, or spend afternoons at the park with a kid in one hand and our BlackBerry in the other (yes, I’m a die-hard BlackBerry fan). And some of us actually find peace at work 5 days a week trying to hear our thoughts (finally), away from our kids’ cries (shocker!).
In the midst of all the “lean in”, “lean back”, gender equality talks, the biggest power working moms can harness is that of choice. The choice to decide what we want, and create our own sense of balance. The choice to do it all, do some, or heck, take a nap and do nothing for a little while…
As for me, at the risk of repeating myself (which is more of a regular occurrence than a risk these days), I’ll pass on flowers, jewelry, and most shiny Mommy Day stuff. Shoes, tall, badass, defiant shoes, get me those in a size 6, please and thank you!
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