the wife, mom & maid.

Do people ever make you feel like your "job" is as meaningless as washing your car on a rainy day? Well, I've been faced with this a couple of times this week. It's the most irritating thing. Sometimes...well, most of the time they aren't direct blows just little comments that make you want to go nuts. So, my daughter isn't crawling, walking or talking yet but that doesn't mean I have nothing to do all day. There is plenty-dishes, laundry, put the laundry away (this one gets me every time), errands (if I have any), bathroom, those stinkin' wood floors that have to be swept atleast twice a day, bathe my daughter...and myself if I get a chance. Then there's changing her clothes a couple of times and more than a couple of diapers, quality time with the babe, teaching her to sit up-roll over-self soothe-laugh-no fussy-etc., feeding her with a SPOON (which takes forever sometimes), putting her down for naps (which is no small task either). THEN there is the dreaded question I have to ask myself, "What are we having for dinner?". Whoops, I didn't take anything out to thaw....now I have to scram to think of something more simple. Sandwiches. Okay. Good. THEN, the second dreaded question...which doesn't come from me but the husband, "Are you going to the gym tonight?" Which makes me feel guilty because I haven't gone all week and money is basically going out the window. Great. Now I have to pull up my boot straps...well, more like tie my tennis shoes and go to the gym...only to come home to a messy kitchen (the one I cleaned earlier that morning)...and a baby who still needs to be put to bed. Wonderful. That will take atleast another hour.
So, as I contemplate my "job" as a wife, mother and maid I see no where in the whole shabang the words easy, simple, menial or even boring. And please don't think I am complaining because that's not the case at all, I'm just trying to prove a point. I don't sit on my butt all day...although I do have a little more time to do that than others, I don't sleep all morning, I don't frolick through the sunflowers with my hair blowing in the wind. AND I wouldn't rather be doing those things (okay, maybe sometimes I'd like a break) because I LOVE MY JOB! I LOVE MY HUSBAND! I LOVE MY BABY! I LOVE MY HOUSE and for it to be clean! I LOVE IT ALL! But again, it isn't just doing nothing! So here's to all the stay-at-home moms out there. I feel ya.
Haha.