Stay at Home Mom...

Ah, the never ending debate as to whether moms should stay at home or go to work... I could get into it and cause someones blood to boil, but I will keep my VERY strong opinions about this issue to myself! I do want both sides of the fence moms to know though... that being a mom is hard! EITHER way! It is a very difficult, frustrating, tiring job. Obviously, it is also the most amazing and rewarding job, but lets face it... the hardest things to do are always the most rewarding. This however is NOT what this post is about.

This is a post of 10 reasons why moms should be home... not for the moral reasons though...

1) Working moms have to get up AND out the door around 7:30. This isn't just getting HERSELF ready either, it is getting 3 children ready who cannot do a single thing for themselves... Trust her that is exhausting enough for the day!

2) As soon as she is ready her child poops and needs a diaper change as soon as she is about to put them in the car.

3) It is so icy outside she has to park across the street where the sun hits the ground, so she doesn't get stuck for a second time that week in her parking place and have to call her husband to walk home from work to push her out and show up late for work again.... it also takes her 3 trips to the car because she has to individually carry each child across the ice and all the things she needs to take to work.

4)Her other child has a potty accident in the car on the way to the sitter and she doesn't know until she shows up and also realizes she has no extra pants or underwear for him to wear.

5)She gets inside and realizes she also forgot to bring formula for the baby and has to run to the nearest store to buy some, along with a bottle, because her house is a 20 minute drive each way.

6) Then as she is finally pulling out to get to work she is already running late for, she gets stuck in her babysitters snow and ice covered driveway for 30 minutes, until 4 women are digging and pushing her mini-van out of the pile.

7) She shows up late, wet, and dirty for work.

8) After she struggles getting her children dressed and wrestled back into the car from the sitter she has to head down the street to the store. She places all of them in the back of the cart and uses the children's laps to place the few items she NEEDS on them. (She is planning another trip in her mind when the husband gets home to get everything she can go without for the time being.) People are staring at her as if she were a mutant from Mars. (It couldn't possibly be because of the squished and screaming children she is ignoring in the cart!)

9) She get home to put in a freezer meal that is only supposed to take an hour to cook, but ends up being at least 2 hours and now she and the kids are starving and it is way past their bed time. (She is wishing she picked up burgers or a pizza on the way home.)

10) She doesn't want a repeat of the same day so she parks at the end of the sitters driveway and somehow grows an extra arm to haul all the children through the snow up the large hill just not to get stuck on the ice. She picks up a pizza and spends more than her days pay on food for her family because cooking dinner just isn't in her physical capacity tonight.

DISCLAIMER: THE THINGS IN THE ABOVE STATEMENTS ARE ALL TRUE. THEY HAVE ALL HAPPENED TO ME AT SOME TIME OR ANOTHER. NOT ON THE SAME DAY.

There are many more reasons why it is nice for mom to be at home, but I will not discredit the stay at home mom either... BOTH are exhausting and time demanding jobs! One woman does not necessarily have it easier than the other. Yes, as a stay at home mom your anxiety level can be lower because time demands aren't as critical. However; stay at home moms never get a break all day and have rare adult interaction! I admire hard working women who help support their family when it is needed and I admire women who stay home to raise their babies when income is being sufficed by their husbands. I never thought being a mom would be so much work and I have never loved my own mother more than when I became one myself. :) Now off to plan lessons for school and hope to get off to bed before midnight...