'Being a stay-at-home mom is not for the faint of heart.'
One more time for everyone out there who deems me as a shitty housewife because I can’t keep up on a clean home: I AM A STAY AT HOME MOM. Nowhere in my title have I been labeled a stay-at-home maid.
Now, I know you like to think that I sit on my ass all day in between the moments my family acts like the Trapp family, and we partake in a playful sing-song ofBut this is the real world. And being a stay-at-home mom is not for the faint of heart. Because I am one of many titles already:And I am the never-paid taxi driver.
I am the calm in the midst of the storm. should be held responsible for cleaning the entire house. That’s a 1950’s mindset, and it’s bullshit.This stay-at-home mom is depleted, and this stay-at-home mom is fed the heck up, because I’m not the only family member in this household capable of picking up a damn broom. Yes, I stay home.
? Yep, I take care of those. I never have a day off. There is no overtime, and my pay comes in the form of smiles and gremlin-like tantrums. On the rare occasion I pencil in some “me-time” for myself, I am the only family member who has to make plans for doing so. I do enough, and I am enough. I will not be conformed into something I did not sign up for and then slack in another area all because of an old-fart type of mindset. Not. Happening.
If you need me to hang up my mop to prove that point too, I’m all for it. But I’d rather just hand it off to someone claiming they would or could be better. And if anyoneto volunteer as tribute, well then… there’s several spots that were missed in the kitchen and four screaming toddlers who need tended to.
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