Washing Update:
Laundry: Not too bad :)
Dinning Table: Covered in clean washing.:(
I can honestly say May is a pretty good kid, she helps me out with the babies and doesn't cause me much grief at all.
Until now... I swear 3 days at high school has brought with it a shift in attitude and I have had a number of "what evas" and the dish washer is missing her love, little brat.
Lucy (#3) wants to be like the big kids and is hanging to be 4 and go to school, so this week she has been keeping her dodo ( her dummy) in a sandwich lunch box ready for school. Today I had to put her lunch "samich" in it and she must have thought she was in the playground eating it because alll the crusts and crumbs got thrown on the family room floor, yay for me!
The babies have both caught Mays cold so it has been a grumpy few days on Neddys part and last night at work I felt it coming on and today I am the same and feel like joining Ned in his winging.
I am getting used to getting up for school again after a late night. Usually because I can't sleep straight away I dont go to bed until 1.30/2am but I have been trying to go staright to bed to make it a bit easier.
This brings me too...a facebook post with a link this week about being just a Mum. It was basically talking about all the things you do when you are being "just a mum" like being a chef, a taxi, a teacher and all those things and not getting paid for it. And so begins the never ending debate about working mums vs stay at home mums and how hard it is to be either.
Well let me put my 2 cents in. Yes its a job in its own right being a mother and housekeeper. All those things the post lists are indeed true and spoken (well reposted) by a currently stay at home mum. If I had the luxury of staying home I could definitely fill my day especially with four kids and I would stay home in a heart beat but COME ON ladies I just don't get the debate!?
Isn't it stating the bloody obvious to even have to stay working mothers are doing it harder??
Now wait, hear me out before all you SAHM's start sending me hate mail and death threats!
I have done it all. I have been a100% stay at home mum, I have been a part time working mum, I have been a full time working mum both days and nights and I have even been a full time and then some working mum when I worked full time at home as a family day carer and then at night waitressing to help pay the bills. Now here's the thing. When you are a SAHM you have heaps to do, cooking, cleaning, washing (shudder) and so on and so on. When you are a working mum you have to do all that AND go to work! Not to mention all the work that goes into getting TO work, like getting kids ready and off to day care before you can even start your day.
This is not a hard argument to win. Being a SAHM is the easiest. Working part time is harder than not working and wait for it...working full time is harder than working part time. The end.
Oh and by the way, the woman ( a fully paid up MGUG member) who posted the link to the "just being a mum " piece had posted a status update while preggers about how hard it was to have a toddler, be pregnant and work 1 day a week. Well...which is it you dumb ass, pick a team will ya and stop your boo hooing.
Jo x
