If I’d had any idea of the condescending blather that would be dumped on Jodi and then Kelly, i would have thrown myself into the fray earlier.

So here goes. I know what it was like to make the decision at 32, single, and pregnant to become a mom. I also know what’s it’s like to have kids with a husband. I’m happy to share my perspective with anybody who asks. As of yet, no one has asked me. So speaking for married women everywhere—oh wait, no I’m not because I’m err, not every married woman. So, Jodi, Kelly, and any married with kids moms out there. Buy me beer at Grumpy’s and I ‘ll regale you with story after story about my lfe, and my kids, and my husband. It won’t get you any closer to your own personal decisions, but it will get me drunk.

I appreciate you granting me permission to learn my own lessons in life. You say that you “shouldn’t have even taken the time to try.” Ask yourself: try what? That’s my point. Jodi, me, any single women out there, we don’t need to be “taught” about how it is to be a mom. I don’t think that all the advice in the world, all the planning, all the forethought, can prepare someone for the experience of having a child. You said it yourself : “It is a very private, independent choice.”

Anyway, I’m sorry again about being negative, and I know that Kelly was only supporting you, but all of a sudden I’m pigeon-holed into a single hating woman who is damn condescending, so I’ll just get over it.