I am so sick of the way that people perceive stay-at-home moms. I’m tired of the condescending looks and that baby tone of voice people get when they learn that I do not leave my house every day to go to work. My least favorite question that people ask right after I’ve told them my un-worthy profession is “So aren’t you bored all day? Not going to work every day would drive me nuts.” BORED?! I don’t have time to be bored and even if I gave myself the chance to be bored I would be opening myself, my day and my household to any number of disasters.

These people that seem to think that all I do is sit on the couch and watch my kids run around all day and maybe do a little cleaning if I feel like it confuse me. All I want to know after they talk to me that way is what is it like in their house? Are there not a million loads of laundry to do? Or how about the constant battle over the TV channel while your fighting everyone to find something more useful to do? Is my house unusually busy?

Yesterday I had one of these particular women who think that I’m useless cause I stay home. She harped me about saying that I was busy all day, and then went on and on about how I have all day to get things done and that SAHM are just not as efficient as a working mothers because they are careless with their time. Of course like an idiot I sat there and took it all cause I am not the type to try to defend what I do, I have two beautiful kids and a happy husband who do that for me. The only thing I told her was that I sure would love it if I could look at a schedule and KNOW that I only had to work 8hrs, and during that 8 I KNOW I am guaranteed a couple of breaks. How lovely it would be to get a DAY OFF scheduled to me to use however I please. Instead I trade all of it in willingly in order to have the peace of mind that my children got as much quality time out of me as they wanted, and my house is never a burden to me, always a clean and happy place to reside. I wouldn’t have it any other way I haven’t missed a single thing in my children’s lives and I LOVE waking up to them every morning no matter what.

Gotta go my boss’ are calling a last minute Play-Doh meeting.