My Occupation

I’ve been a homemaker,

a stay-at-home mom,

I’ve loved it and found it

fulfilling,

until

the kids

left

home

housework can be a drudge,

I’d rather make fudge and eat it,

but then, I’d have to buy

new clothes to fit in again

tax time has come,

my husband filled out the forms,

then he informed me

that he did something new

I wondered and asked him,

he said he filled out my occupation,

not the usual way, as homemaker,

but wrote, writer, instead

I asked why and told him,

I don’t make money that way,

his reply, it’s not about

how you make money,

you made no money

being a homemaker, either,

it’s about what occupies

your time and, therefore,

you

are

a

writer

Precious Linda, c. 2013