NIAGARA, Wis. — My husband and I met in college, and we soon learned that we had come from very different backgrounds. While we both had grown up in blue collar families and each had three siblings, our mothers were very different from each other. His was the typical ’50s homemaker and most definitely a stay-at-home mom. She was a wonderful, caring woman with a very traditional role. Growing up, she had taken over running the household for her mother who was busy keeping the books and helping her husband run their dairy business.

My mother was anything but traditional. She could not stay home, as she was both mom and breadwinner for our family. Thankfully, she had attended business college after high school, so had secretarial skills that came in very handy after our father’s untimely dea

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