If you’re home with your kids, this is your life. In list form.
Okay, lets get it out there first. This isn’t a Stay-At-Home-Mums vs. Working-Mums thing. The fact is there are Stay-At-Home-Mums, there are Mums who work, and there are many who do a bit of both.
This isn’t an us vs. them. This isn’t a woe-to-me. It’s a celebration. It’s for every mum who stays at home (and there is probably one here for the many Mums who head out to work as well).
If you’re a Stay-At-Home-Mum, here are 13 things you’re sure to understand.
And if you’re a Working Mum, your post is coming soon…
1. There is always…
A pile of something at the bottom of the stairs that needs taking up to somewhere at the top of the stairs. Always.
2. There is never…
Anyone else in the household who notices those piles. No one ever.
3. You can tell…
What the time it is by what’s on ABC Kids.
4. There are not…
24 hours in a day there are five. They are 9.30-2.30. By the time you do school drop off and then have pick up the day is gone. GONE I tell you.
5. At home there is…
No water cooler, no coffee man downstairs, no popping out to the shops at lunchtime. In fact, popping out to the shops is now an all out combat mission that involves several bags filled with “just-in-case-items” and those all-important Tupperware boxes of snacks.
6. Checking Facebook is…
Something that has to be done surreptitiously less your preschooler asks you if they can play on your phone. It is now no longer something you hide from your boss – but from your child.
