Amy at Milk Breath and Margaritas (love that blog title!) gives a big shout out to the Room Mothers:

I want to say thank you to all the Room Mothers.

Thank you for organizing the class parties and offering to drive for the field trips. Thank you for all that you do to help the teacher throughout the year.

Amy works full-time and can’t be a school room mother but she willingly helps out in ways that she can. And that’s the way it should be. The stay-at-home mothers shouldn’t be expected to do all the work and the work-away-from-home mothers should be able to contribute as they can without anyone passing judgment. I’m a stay-at-home mother but I’m not the room mother for my daughter’s class. I’m her Brownie troop leader and I have a three-year old son at home with me. I know my limits and how many commitments can be too much for me. There are so many times that I wish that I could be in her school room more often but since I can’t be, I do what I can.