First of all let me just say I would never judge a mother for working outside the home to support her family. With that, you that do work and have kids don't act like you can judge me for not having a job. I'm tired of everyone thinking staying at home with your kids is all cake and icecream. I work very hard at my job as well. Do I not deserve a night out or times to do fun things without my kids b/c I get to stay at home all the time and I don't go to "work" and then come home and take care of my kids...?? What's up with that? I"m tired of everyone thinking stay at home moms just have days of leisure and then get judged if we want to go out by ourselves like to scrapbook or whatever. You know no one judges our spouses when they want to go play golf or get out of the house, b/c they've been at work all day and then come home to the kids, which is more work apparently, they deserve the "fun time." Well whatever to that. I work all day long without breaks, without other adults, changing diapers, wipping poop, dressing both kids, fighting about naps, teaching them to be the persons they will become and I want some recognition and respect for that. My husband gets plenty of time to do the things he wants and he's certainly not mistreated if he doesn't get to go play golf all day on a saturday when he's been at work all week and hasn't gotten to spend much time with our family. Spending time as a family all day is our fun times and what we enjoy the most. So, I guess what I'm saying is we both need breaks from our jobs, his is home, and mine is him at home.
Let me say this is not directed at my husband. We have great understanding about how hard being a stay at home mother is, he's reminded when I work a saturday every once in a while and he's at home with the kids all day. And, right now I"m doing a workout program that is three nights a week from 6:30-8, and Darren is being very supportive about that. So thanks honey.
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Whatever, you know you're just eating bon-bons and watching Oprah all day. Piece o'cake!
Holy cow! Who ticked you off?
Sing it sista! Brad is wonderfully supportive, but not everyone else in the world shares that same philosophy. After teaching 20 five year-olds for three years, I can say hands down that staying at home is that hardest job I've ever had! But on the other hand, I try to always remember what a great gift I've been given and what a great gift I'll be giving to my girls.
You go girl!!
As a future "go to work to support the family" mother, let me just say that I give any stay at home mom the biggest pat on the back and recognition because I GUARANTEE my day at work is not nearly as exhausting as a day in the life of a stay-at-home mom.
Of course I don't know this from personal experience, but I'll report back those 8 weeks I stay home with my lil one.
Amen Sista! I can already tell Im gonna thoroughly enjoy reading your blog, especially the venting, opinionated, etc. ones. You are awesome.
Oh and what you write is so true! Hell I have 2 days of Mother's Day Out a week and I'm still exhausted and overwhelmed somedays! Brad and I took the boys shopping yesterday and afterwards I asked Brad if he could imagine taking both boys on a 2-hour wal mart trip (which is what I do one of my MDO days) and he quickly admitted that "Yes you definintely do NEED Mother's Day Out!"
Another conversation Brad and I have is that Yes, there are days where I nap for an hour while the kids nap, but there are also days when I dont sit down vs days when he gets an hour lunch break with his friends or goes to the gym for an hour to work out and some days where he works 15 hours strait!. We both work hard and get "breaks" every now and then, so its fair.
Yes you do deserve it! Tell me who said you didn't and we'll drop of all our kids at their house for one hour and see what they say then!!
i kinda have the best of both, being a teacher. I have said since we had Bennett and especially since the other two came along, that working outside the home is much more physically demanding, but mentally the most challenging job is staying at home. So there you have it, no matter the job, it is a job! But I love it!
Amen sister :)
Thanks for the advice with Paige. She doesn't seem to have any other symptoms, so I think it's just a chap. I used Vaseline at home on her last night, but I forgot to take it to school with us today so I applied some triple antibiotic ointment. Both seemed to do pretty well taking the burn away. I hope ya'll are doing well!!! Ada and Isaac are so darn cute!
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