This blog post has been reposted, with permission, from Bril’s Blog.
Every stay at home mother has a few confessions that she would rather keep to herself. But bring in anonymity and there are some surprising (and funny) revelations! We spoke to some to stay at home mothers to children of varying ages and came up with some gems that will have you smiling, if not rolling with laughter.
So, here goes!
- The nights that my husband is away on tours, I sleep with a hammer under the bed and my neighbor’s phone number on speed dial, in case somebody broke in and I had time only to press one number.
- Sometimes when I switch on the TV, it is set to Disney Junior channel and I secretly enjoy watching it even when my kids are not around.
- I have become so used to 5 minute showers that even now when my kids at 12 and 14 respectively, I bathe as furiously as I did when they were toddlers.
- When my child asks me to read the same story book 10 times in a row, I actually hide it.
- I use frozen food for my kids tiffin sometimes
- I let my toddler watch TV when I need some alone time.
- When asked what do I do the whole day with a baby, I feel like wringing the other person’s neck.
- My cleaning schedule depends on when we are expecting guests
- I sometimes spend the day in pajamas. Don’t shower or clean the house till it is time for my husband to get home
- Sometimes I feel how to other mothers do it all so easily? But then there’s something called “Faking it till you believe it” Maybe they fake it better than I do.
- I’m the kind of mother who forgets to make her kid wash his hands before meals and brush his teeth before sleeping
- If my daughter goes for a swim, that totally counts as a bath
- I let my kids eat everything!
- When my husband said he wouldn’t be able to change the nappy of our baby because he doesn’t like the smell, that night I shoved a used nappy under his pillow just to teach him a lesson. As if I like the smell!
Do you have any confessions that you would like to share?!
Hilarious! I totally agree with 2, 5, 6 and 7.
I am a Work-from-Home-Mum and I must admit that I have never regretted not working outside the home. I totally enjoy the years that I have spent with my daughter (she is eight now), and am grateful for the flexibility that my job allows me. Especially more so that my ‘job’ is something I am passionate about! When my daughter was young, I decided that I would go back to a full-time job when I started feeling frustrated about staying at home. Hasn’t happened yet! Having said that, I must say that this is, of course, a privileged choice to make and I am well aware of that as well, and grateful that I can afford to make this choice.
I just loved 3, 7, and 8!
Two confessions from a non-full-time-working-mom:
I still feel taking long baths is a luxury though the kids have been managing a lot on their own since the time I have begun counseling – it is just because I have managed them during their infancy with only very little outside help and so having quick baths has become a way of life for me!!
The days I feel mentally exhausted with my counseling sessions, I keep story books and drawing books in close proximity of my younger kid and I pretend not to look her way.
Ha ha Aparajita! Nothing to confess there – story books and drawing books are a good idea, not matter the situation you are in. But I totally get your point about eye contact! Sometimes I will spend longer than necessary in the toilet and pretend not to hear, because I can hear my daughter calling me to her room for some inconsequential question – the 100th in that hour! Such a bad mum, no?!
I see this as a funny post, at least some of the points are. But I agree on the frustrations a stay-at-home mom can have. I have had my share of frustrations and joy.
Somewhere I feel the word ‘confessions’ comes from a place of guilt. I do not feel guilty for being frustrated, for doing or not doing things .. just learn, observe, appreciate, enjoy, forgive, move on.