Paid work vs. Mom's work

I do both, and for the record, the mom's work is harder. Forty hours a week on campus never tires me so much as a single afternoon at home with three strong-willed children. And they're always hungry? It's a full time job just keeping them fed. I feel like one of those mama birds who keeps frantically jamming worms down all those open cheeping throats.

Thank god they're not all mine. I'd have keeled over from a stroke long ago.