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.