Before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became a politician, she was a stay-at-home mom. She ran for office only after the youngest of her five children was ready to go to college. Common knowledge. But she and two daughters were interviewed for an article in the San Francisco Chronicle today, and I just had to write about this:
Alexandra cited the difference between her life and her mother’s – “I work. And when I go to work, I think work is a break from my family” – Pelosi smiled at the notion that family life isn’t work. “She doesn’t remember how much work it was,” she said of raising such a large family.
Sort of ironic that Pelosi’s daughter would utter something like that. I wonder if it was just an offhanded remark, and whether Pelosi’s “smile” was genuine. Five kids? That’s what I call work. And to reach such political heights after her first career as a stay-at-home mom? Sounds like even more work.
