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I am what some call a "stay at home Mom". This is seriously annoying and I find myself always having to explain why and then justify it...
Here are a few comments that make me completely insane;
1) "You don't do ANYTHING?!"
2) "You don't feel guilty not contributing to the family?"
3) "Must be nice to have that luxury!"
In regards to comment #1... Of course I don't do anything! The kids have been able to feed and clothe themselves since birth! The house stays perfectly clean because my children are absolute angels and always insist on cleaning up after themselves...Now if you'll excuse me I have to go and lounge on my sofa and watch soap operas all afternoon...
Comment #2... Not contributing? I would like to sit down and add up what it would cost to hire someone to look after the kids and house... but my tiny little housewife brain just can't handle those big numbers.
Comment #3... Luxury? Doesn't feel like a luxury when I am nursing two sick kids while trying to keep up with the barfed up bedding they keep producing. While you are going out for lunch with your co-workers, I am having headless animal crackers (because my darlings find them "creepy") and watching TreeHouse while sitting on the floor and being used as a human bean bag chair. There is no extra money for evenings out, hair appointments, nail appointments and girls night involves Polly Pockets spread from one end of the house to the other.
I am not complaining! I chose this life and I have loved it (Well, MOST of it). However, when some snotty desk jockey mom looks down her nose at me simply because I opted to stay at home and raise my own children *gasp!* I get a little annoyed. And if she dares to go into the "poor me... I miss my babies all day! It breaks my heart to leave them!
Uh... bite me! Yes some moms have to work, especially if they are a single parent or the father can't work for whatever reason. But again... did you NEED to have half a dozen kids? (because these people never have just one or two.) I guess it's easier to have a baby knowing you don't have to be the one staying at home and raising it. I think that is a MAJOR insult to the Moms out there that are forced to work because of situations beyond their comtrol. I know of some who would love to stay at home with their kids but thanks to disappearing husbands and fathers, they can't. And if I hear the term "SuperMom" one more time I may actually have to hurt someone. Unless you are wearing a red cape and can actually fly; you are NOT super. You're a Mom. Working all day and then volunteering on every committee there is doesn't make you a super Mom. It makes you an absent one.
All I'm saying, is that just because what I do all day isn't witnessed by an office full of people that doesn't make it any less important.
I'm sure lots of women out there would disagree with me but I will share with you a valuable life lesson I have learned from my kids...
Place fingers in ears and shout,
"I'M NOT LISTENING AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!!"
