So. It’s Monday morning, 8:30 AM. I have no place to go, no obligations, nobody to answer to. (Well, I have lunch with a friend scheduled today. Thank GOD.) Call it maternity leave, but I am a freelance worker, so nobody is paying me to sit around in my pajamas and contemplate my free time. I am unemployed. I am a “homemaker.” A housewife. A VALLEY HOUSEWIFE – for sure. Soon I will be a “stay-at-home-mom.”
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
I planned this myself. It was my choice, my grand design. Stewart and I have been saving money ever since we found out I was pregnant, so if we need it to, our savings account will pay us the salary that I was making. So I’m not worried about money.
But listen. I went to school from the time I was five years old (possibly earlier) until I was 21, the goal being that I would take what I learned and fashion a career for myself. I have been gainfully employed since I was 16 years old (14 if you include my paper route). Up until last summer, I have always had a job – I overlapped gigs, like I did with my boyfriends. There has NEVER been NOTHING to do.
And of course I am exaggerating. There’s NOT nothing to do. I could put my list of tasks here on this blog, but it would only illustrate how type-A I can really be. Nobody needs to see that. I’m an unemployed producer – I need a project – and for now, priority number 1 is nourishing the little person growing inside me. I have been pretty lazy for the last few months – not exercising because of my back, eating poorly because of my voracious appetite and lack of time to prepare healthy foods. I have no excuse now. Project Baby gets my full attention.
Oh, and an update on the sleeping situation: I didn’t go to bed until 12:30AM last night and I thought I was doomed. But I drank some milk before I went to bed, and I put my earplugs in, and I slept until 6:30! That, my friends, is progress.
“Stay-at-home-mom” is NOT a bad word!. In fact, it is one of the hardest jobs a woman can have in her lifetime. We all go through various identities in our lives and this is another of them. And NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE should make us feel guilty of the choices we make, let alone doing a number on ourselves.
Here’s a question, not just for you, but for the women out there, “Are you happy?” Because if YOU are, the people around you will be too! And certainly that little one you are carrying.
OK I’m off the soap box….
“Stay-at-home-mom” is NOT a bad word!. In fact, it is one of the hardest jobs a woman can have in her lifetime. We all go through various identities in our lives and this is another of them. And NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE should make us feel guilty of the choices we make, let alone doing a number on ourselves.
Here’s a question, not just for you, but for the women out there, “Are you happy?” Because if YOU are, the people around you will be too! And certainly that little one you are carrying.
OK I’m off the soap box….
“Stay-at-home-mom” is NOT a bad word!. In fact, it is one of the hardest jobs a woman can have in her lifetime. We all go through various identities in our lives and this is another of them. And NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE should make us feel guilty of the choices we make, let alone doing a number on ourselves.
Here’s a question, not just for you, but for the women out there, “Are you happy?” Because if YOU are, the people around you will be too! And certainly that little one you are carrying.
OK I’m off the soap box….