1) You will wear the hell out of some yoga pants. My four year old walked into the room this morning and said, "Mom, why are you always in your pajama pants?" "I'm not," I snapped. "These are my yoga pants."
2) You will finish your kids food. Peanut butter and jelly crust. Sure. Apple peels. Why not? Three Goldfish crackers left in the bottom of their snack bowl. This may be your only lunch.
3) Wine time just keeps getting earlier and earlier. When you had a baby, it was after the baby went to sleep. Then it became wine time with dinner. When the baby is about two, wine time gets moved up to while you are cooking. When the kids hit three or four, wine time suddenly becomes 4:00 pm, unless you have a play date scheduled at 3:00 pm and then, well...
4) You vacuum just to get some peace and quiet. Sometimes mom needs some white noise too. When the vacuum comes on, kids seem to wander off and do their own thing.
5) You pretend to need to go to the bathroom when the kids are distracted with something. It feels like sneaking off for a moment to yourself even if it's only to stare in the bathroom mirror and wonder if you should put mascara on before your husband gets home.
6) Sometimes you get dressed and put on mascara right before your husband gets home.
7) You convince yourself that PBS is really, really educational and watching it for an hour or two in the morning, and the afternoon, is OK. Sometimes it's the only way to get stuff done.
8) Walking up and down the stairs fourteen thousand times, carrying cups, books, toys, children and dirty clothes is not really like going to the gym. Damn.
9) Sometimes you make four different meals for dinner. Because you really don't feel like arguing.
10) Sometimes you don't make dinner at all. You serve your kids a hodgepodge of sliced cheese, grapes, teddy grahams, ritz crackers and a piece of rolled up deli turkey. And that's OK too.
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
The Lost Art of Being a Stay at Home Mom
Yep, that is what I named my blog and it is also the name of my first post. Actually, this is my second post. My first post is a disclaimer/caveat in which I explain that it is not lost on me that staying home with my children is not an option everyone has.
This blog will be about entertaining kids, husbands and most importantly, entertaining yourself. It will be about budget-friendly activities, dinners and clothing. I will share tips, tricks, failings and happy moments, doing what I think is the best job in the world.
Stay at home moms should be proud and honored to have such a great job. It's a hard job. Exhausting and frustrating, and amazing too. And for some reason, over the last decade or so, it is losing the respect it deserves.
Most people I know work full time. I don't have many mom friends who choose to stay home. Almost all of my friends decided to go back to work once they had their first child. The job of the stay at home mom is becoming a lost art.
I know my grandmother's generation and probably my mother's too, didn't have much of a choice. They were made to feel staying home was their only option. Women wanted careers and had passions that extended beyond the home but they weren't given the opportunity to fulfill them because of the way society put pressure on women to stay home. Forty years later, I feel almost the reverse has happened. Society now puts pressure on women to work. Women are supposed to by Super Moms - working full time jobs, raising children, looking perfect, going to PTA, coaching soccer! Hooray! And with that, stay at home moms are now frowned upon. That shouldn't be the case. Stay at home moms should receive just as much respect as working moms. When I left my full time corporate job to stay home with my newborn son, someone actually told me my brain would turn to mush. Seriously. Said this to my face.
I want this blog to highlight stay at home moms. Showcase what we do! Display the lost art of being a stay at home mom. And yeah, prove that our brains do not in fact go soft.
This blog will be about entertaining kids, husbands and most importantly, entertaining yourself. It will be about budget-friendly activities, dinners and clothing. I will share tips, tricks, failings and happy moments, doing what I think is the best job in the world.
Stay at home moms should be proud and honored to have such a great job. It's a hard job. Exhausting and frustrating, and amazing too. And for some reason, over the last decade or so, it is losing the respect it deserves.
Most people I know work full time. I don't have many mom friends who choose to stay home. Almost all of my friends decided to go back to work once they had their first child. The job of the stay at home mom is becoming a lost art.
I know my grandmother's generation and probably my mother's too, didn't have much of a choice. They were made to feel staying home was their only option. Women wanted careers and had passions that extended beyond the home but they weren't given the opportunity to fulfill them because of the way society put pressure on women to stay home. Forty years later, I feel almost the reverse has happened. Society now puts pressure on women to work. Women are supposed to by Super Moms - working full time jobs, raising children, looking perfect, going to PTA, coaching soccer! Hooray! And with that, stay at home moms are now frowned upon. That shouldn't be the case. Stay at home moms should receive just as much respect as working moms. When I left my full time corporate job to stay home with my newborn son, someone actually told me my brain would turn to mush. Seriously. Said this to my face.
I want this blog to highlight stay at home moms. Showcase what we do! Display the lost art of being a stay at home mom. And yeah, prove that our brains do not in fact go soft.
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