I Stand Here Ironing
In I Stand Here Ironing, a mother talks about how she became a young single mother with a husband who walked out on her and his daughter. She discusses year by year and step by step how everything happened in her daughter’s life; from the first steps to her first day of college. It all begins right after her husband leaves them saying that he can no longer stay with them. Times are tough as this period in their lives takes place in the Great Depression. She talks about having to work long days and leave her daughter with a baby sitter downstairs and never spend time with her except a few hours each night and how she then changes jobs to work nights and spend all day with her daughter.