Agreed Donna.

There is no way a woman could have a full time outside job and raise a houseful of children at the same time. She'd go insane.

Since I suspect you meant that in a nice way "go insane", and since I also suspect you generally appreciate the feelings I have for my mother, I don't feel so guilty about disclosing a bit of the experience from having observed my mother go "insane" raising 5 children by day and working as a nurse by night. For his part, father was a union mill worker who spent 45 years working the "swing shift". This occured in large part through the 60's and into late 70's. Times were different enough back then on a lot of fronts that the process of going insane had it's own set of cultural effects, including langauge and pop / conventional wisdeom, all mixed together and associated with it..... and mother did have her own plan as well. The main feature of this plan was that she waited until the youngest of the 5 was grown up enough in her mind (IE> well along into the grade school system) to offset the implied liability from her leaving the home for upwards to 8 to 12 hours at a clip....sometimes 16 hours. She specifically opted to work the "graveyard shift" - 11PM to 7 AM. Yes, even nurses back then, especially LPNs, were treated to all kinds "overtime". "coincidentally" as those with an accidentalists view of history are fond of saying, mother also became a chronic sufferer of miagrain headaches during this same period. That particular "insanity" has left a scar on her person through all the years since then, past the point of her nest being emptied and well past the time that she finally retired from the hospital. Talk about some irony, among the common orthodox approaches to treating migraine back in that era?....... opiates, derivatives of opiates and eventually synthetic substitutes...... demoral.....percodan......and eventually hydrocodone "viacadin". Mother now has a good 45 years worth of being addicted to that particular establishment brand of "insanity". It was only after I had attained the age of somewhere around the late 20's to mid 30's that I really began to appreciate the difficult sacrifices parents, including my very own, once were regularly committed to making in order to maintain the long lauded dream of stable home / family / house, down to the white picket fence.  Also note the particular Mz brand of stability introduced into the family dynamic .... by way of rendering it a bit more unstable, you see?

PS - Donna, you may not have noticed, but this "Paul is out of the race" rumor is persisting. Can you perhaps help shed some light on this? Thank you.