Being a stay-at-home mom is a true gift — you get to be there for your child basically all the time and do a job in which you are a completely irreplaceable "employee." But as with any job, there are struggles and challenges you face on the regular, and for SAHMs, those range from having your deepest conversations on the topic of Doc McStuffins or figuring out how to be in seven places at once because everyone assumes that staying at home means you have — laugh with us — free time.
If you're a SAHM, read through for 11 struggles that you probably know all too well.
As if taking care of a child isn’t a full-time job that has you running around like a chicken with no head all day.
Your conversations with adults have likely suffered as a result.
It’s a catch-22 that gets you every time.
Then you find it freezing cold in the microwave the next morning as you go to nuke your fresh cup — the cycle continues.
When the leggings you’ve been wearing for the last three days in a row are as comfy as they are, why shake things up?
And then have to care for the rest of the family as they fall victim to the germs like human dominoes.
Paying the bills is totally at the mercy of the baby’s nap — oh well.
Meanwhile, the reality is likely that after child care and commuting fees, you’d bring home about $37 a week, so it’s not so much a choice as a responsible financial decision.
On the plus side, you always have baby wipes in your purse.
But just because your job isn’t in an office doesn’t mean you can bake 400 cupcakes for tomorrow's bake sale.
Well, I actually do it all — what do you do again?