About this column:
About this column: Being a mother is a difficult job but the good thing is that there are other moms out there to which we can all relate. This weekly rotating column will feature the writing of four phenomenal women—Angela Atkinson, a mom that runs her own business from home, Helena Hewlett, a stay-at-home mother, Marsha Hays, a mother of teens and Candice Macko, a single mother.Prior to becoming a mother some of us were in-training for the job and didn't realize it. We helped with younger brothers and sisters. We helped change diapers and even with feedings. While mom, dad or both, worked, it was us older kids going for walks, taking them to the park and keeping an eye on them. I watched my now 11-year old brother Noah, while my mother Cindy worked overnight. I made sure he took his bath, went to bed on time and woke up in time for school. I'd have his breakfast ready for him and sent him off to school each day. While there were days that it annoyed me to postpone…
It seems like during spring and summer the only thing you hear in the neighborhood are kids outside playing and running around. Yesterday I was outside not too long after the neighborhood children arrived home from school and I noticed the lack of sound: There was complete silence outside. That got me thinking and really as the weather began to cool, the children seem to be around less. It's almost as though children today don't know the good time to be had in the winter, and people have forgotten how much fun fall and winter can be inside and outside. Or maybe they don't want to deal with …
