Kimberly Z. (chiKaD27) - , - 3/20/2009 9:38 PM ET

If I may comment..... you so don't think too much. You have to wonder about things or life becomes meaningless, tedious, and incredibly unbearable. That is not laziness, it is what you can do and what appears to be what you are great at. No one can say you are a good mother unless you actually are one. Career goals, Shmareer goals. If you are good at something, no matter what it is, do it! Quit worrying about what else you could be doing. There is always time for careers, but you can never have enough time for family.

Mary S. (HerMuffyness) - 3/21/2009 12:00 PM ET

Christina, me think you think too much! You sound like a lovely person and not all of us are even THAT!! (I'm a bitch!) You know what you are good at (being a mother) and not all of us are good at THAT!! (I had one child and it was too much for me - she is bi-polar) Your family loves you AND your husband loves you and some of us are not good at THAT either! (My hubby is still with me - he's my third - but I don't speak to my family) You are a great Mom and everyone knows it - what more can you ask for! Quit thinking and go forward! Her Muffyness

Linda (wherearemyglasses) - - 3/22/2009 9:27 PM ET

Don't think so much...gets you into trouble everytime. Just be.

REBECCA O. (sunnybrookgal) - 4/7/2009 11:41 PM ET

Thanks for sharing this, I wonder the same things too sometimes. I am also a stay-at-home mom and a homemaker. I have come to love the gentle rhythm of my days, the sweetness of caring for my daughter, sharing in her life as she grows. We live on a small farm and I feel very contented in what I have chosen: the repetitive cycle of my years, of new plantings and of harvests, of new lives and of losses. But it does nag at me sometimes, that maybe I should have been more ambitious, tried to accomplish more than live my simple, quiet life. I have a college degree and I feel sometimes that I should have done more with it, to justify the time and expense that went into it, and the sacrifice that my parents made to help me achieve it. Perhaps someday I will. But for now it is good to know that somebody else is out there questioning too:) So thank you.

Louis H. (swapcat) - 4/11/2009 11:22 PM ET

Your head-emptying worked! It is an excellent way to find out what is going on, and what the answers can be. And somewhere along the line you learned how to write well enuf that I read your whole "emptying". And am not sorry I read it, as I am about some stories I read.