I got this one from the reader's Digest. Great morale booster...
Tribute to working moms
By Elizabeth Ralph Mertz
When Aristotle wrote his books, when Milton searched for rhyme
did they have toddlers on the knee requesting dinner time?
When Dante contemplated Hell, or Shakespeare penned a sonnet
did Junior interrupt to say. his cake had ketchup on it?
When Socrates was teaching youth and Plato wrote the Phaedo
were they the ones to clean the mess the children made with play dough?
If Edmund Burke had had to work om all his kids' ablutions
Would he have had the time and strength to speak on revolutions?
Did food get bought when Darwin sought the origin of the species?
Or did he have to rush the tots and tell them not to tease please?
When Judge Holmes and Brandeis donned their robes and gave their wise opinions
was laundry piled a meter high with socks mixed up with linen?
How much greater then the task of those who manage both
who juggle scholarship with child development and growth?
And how much greater is the praise for those who persevere
and finish their advanced degrees to take up a CAREER?
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