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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

"Momglomerate..." Get it??

Hello, world!  I had an epiphany today: Every mother is indeed a one-woman "momglomerate."  (I do believe that I created this word.  I Googled it, and nothing--yet!  Mark it down: March 23, 2011.)  Want proof?  Check out Wikipedia's definition of  a conglomerate pasted below:

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Conglomerate (company)

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A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses together into one corporate structure, usually involving a parent company and several (or many) subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company. Conglomerates are often large and multinational.

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See?  Sounds eerily familiar, right, Mom?  Under the general infrastructure of your "parent company," you are also heading up a plethora of wildly-varied "entirely different businesses."  Previously, you may have unimaginatively named this parent business "motherhood," and considered your other industries "cooking," "cleaning," "laundering," "driving," "homework-checking," "diaper-changing," etc.  But, now, as you can clearly see, you are totally a "momglomerate!"  Being the "CEO" of your momglomerate sounds so much more glamorous than "stay-at-home mom" or the un-PC: "housewife."  Another perk: you can now call what was something as mundane-sounding as paying the household bills, "managing corporate finance" (or whatever).  Hail to the Chief!  It is all in the rhetoric, you see.

This blog is dedicated to the business of motherhood and to the respect of the professionals who carry this title.  (Aretha Franklin's "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" is playing in my mind.  Can you hear it?)



1 comment:

  1. I love this! Your fans are waiting for the next post ...

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