I admit it: before I was a stay-at-home Mom, I believed stay-at-home Moms had it easy.  Oprah all the livelong day!  Special multi-layered casseroles sprinkled with cheese, a pink-cheeked baby smiling serenely from his high chair!

When I left the corporate jungle for my maternity leave last August, I quickly ingested a bunch of crow, complete with birds, beak, feather, and feet.  And I whispered silent heartfelt apologies for my previous ignorance to stay-at-home Moms around the world (Multi-layered casseroles!  What was I thinking?)

I worked as a sales executive in various no-holds-barred corporate environments for nearly ten years.  I have been a stay-at-home Mom to one sweet infant for 8 months.  And I can honestly say that the latter job is harder for me.  But I wholeheartedly believe that each Mom must make the choice that is right for her and her family. 

And I don't understand the whole business of office Moms criticizing home Moms and vice versa.  The reality is: both parties are working Moms, and both work hard for a living.  But the media keeps reporting on the War of the Moms.

Now, in time for Mother's Day, at least two websites are lashing out at the so-called "war" and encouraging Moms to band together to fight for equal rights.

Both sites have petitions to sign encouraging the media to "focus on real problems in need of real solutions" instead of on the divisive "Mommy Wars."

That sounds like a good idea to me.

(Thanks to Officially a Mom for the photo!)