Do working moms have an easier life?
I was disturbed to see how dark it was when I got up this morning - this was partly because The Kid had decided to wake at the ungodly hour of 6am AGAIN, and partly because the winter mornings are drawing in.
Bleary eyed and tired, I began to warm the milk for porridge and make my tea, and wonder (as I often do on a weekday morning) how on earth I'm going to get through a day at work? My usual answer to this question is a lovely large cup of coffee on arrival, followed by many more lovely large cups of coffee as the day unfolds.
Would I feel any different if I were like one of my stay at home counterparts, I wonder. I'd still be just as tired, AND I'd have a one year old toddling small rings around me all day. Sometimes I have a romantic vision of what it would be like be a stay at home mom, but the reality is I don't know how I'd cope.
Surely it's easier to sit at a desk, firing off emails and chastising teenagers in a caffeine fuelled blur than it is to chase round after a cheeky toddler all day every day?
As I loaded my life into the car and set off for another day, I thought even if were about to spend a day at home, at least I wouldn't have to try and look smart and do a good impression of someone who's following the conversation. The Kid wouldn't mind if I spent the whole day in pyjamas watching In The Night Garden, and that's a fact, not a romantic notion.
It might be a place to escape to, but work will always be work and home will always be home.
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Emma Deadman - is a first-time mum-to-be. She gives her take on life... from bump to beyond.
I think it's important to find a happy medium. We all need time away from the kids to just be ourselves. At least at work you can be YOU and not someone's wife or mother. Spending time with our families is so very precious. But spending everyday at home with them...ummm....maybe you can too much of a good thing??
After watching about 10 mins of In the night garden, he would be bored and want to do something far more entertaing! Then after another 10 min another change of activities and as soon as you stopped to make the coffee cry that he wasnt being entertained!
Perhaps I do have a romantic view of what it would be like! I just like the idea of staying in my pyjamas all day long!