Being a stay at home mum is not work!

Hubby and I barely fight but when we do you can be almost sure to bet it will come back to "I go to work all day and your at home! So why can't you do it?"

Almost without a doubt. Now I don't know about anyone else but I've had a 8 till 5 job with an hour off for lunch and two 10 minute breaks, and I've been a stay at home mum.

I can tell you which is easier - work by far. I can only imagine what it would be like to have a designated hour for eating and a whole day where I didn't have to look a poopy nappies or pull things out of someone else's mouth. Walking in at 8 and out at 5 and that's it. I can also tell you which I enjoy more - being a mum. The way his face lights up when he sees me. The wet sloppy kisses and the super tight bear cuddles. The cheeky grin when he's doing something he shouldn't, the ever so cute "mum mum mum" when I'm not paying quite enough attention. Watching him grow and learn and develop new skills.

However my husband can't quite see that this on top of everything else that I do around the house is equal to him going out to work.

I don't think he quite realises the time and effort that I put into each and every day, often with a very broken sleep the night before because Master B had been unsettled and wanted his boobie.

There's washing (at least 2 loads a day), gardening, picking up after the monster, organizing the mail, paying the bills, buying the groceries, budgeting, appointments for B, phone calls. (those are just the things off the top of my head, there are heaps more)

While I love every minute I get to spend at home with my little man and am extremely grateful to my husband for allowing it, it isn't as easy as turning on Dora and suiting on my bum as he seems to think some days.

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