My Job

Most people have a job.Well at least one they get paid for. I get paid for my job but not in money. I get the joy of staying home with my two beautiful children each and everyday and watch them grow up never missing anything in their lives. Even when it comes to learning school. Im a stay at home mom. Our day starts out like any other day from any other person. The only difference is the timing. Where most families get up and start their days anywhere from 6-8am, we get up at noon. Why do we get up so late do you ask? I have put my children on my husbands work schedual. Meaning that they get the most quality time with him that they can get. My husband goes to work at 7am. and comes home at noon for lunch. So the first person they get to see when they wake up is daddy. When daddy gets home he gets them breakfast and a drink and spends his lunch hour eating and talking with them. Then its my turn at 1. We hang out for a few and then we start school. Luke is a full time kindergarten student and i am his learning coach. Incase you havent figured it out yet, we homeschool. then by the time we are done daddy is home. we eat dinner play watch tv talk have some laughs and then everyone goes to bed. there was nothing more that i hated when i was growing up to have to go to bed before my dad got home or shortly after he got home. i felt i was missing out on so much time with him. Right then i decided my kids will see their father every moment they could. Anyways being a learning coach isnt as easy as people think it is. You have to come up with different ways to teach your children if they arent learning it the way school tells you to try. It takes patients and lots of time. You have to make sure they understand something before you can move on. its a job in itself. But even tho its hard and tiring at times its still joyus and you have a feeling of accomplishment especially when you see the light in their eyes like they completely understand what they are doing..
Onto my other job.
Like mentioned before i am a stay at home mother. When you think of a stay at home mom you think back to the old days. husband goes off to work mom stays home and takes care of everything else. Well i hate cleaning. my house is messy most of the time and by the end of the day i am exhausted. I dont make home cooked meals from scratch like they did back then. But whatever i cook always comes out tasting good. I dont use recipes i just make things how i want and go from there. if it turns out good then great and sometimes its a trip to what we around here call the boulavard...On the boulavard we have wendys arbys mcdonalds burger king and taco bell..its a life saver at times. Along with taking care of the kids making sure they have food and drinks fun and learning comes the nursing,teacher,and many others. If a housewife could get paid for all the jobs she does in a day she would make more then the husband. The wifes job is extremely demanding. and is always different and never a guarentee that things will turn out great everyday. Where the husband goes and does the same thing day in and day out. Never having to deal with much change. Then the husbands ask why us wives are always tired at the end of the day. If its not one thing going on its another and it causes tons of stress. Your running around with the little ones chasing them catching them playing dress up and tea parties monster trucks and cars and tractors on top of teaching and cooking and cleaning and making yourself presentable each and every day. But i would not give up my job for anything. Some people wouldnt consider a housewife a job. But guess what i do and im sure that if you ask any other housewife they will tell you the same thing. It is a job you just dont get paid cash. You get paid the big smiles you see on your kids faces you get paid by love and support of your family. You get paid by the fact that inside you know you have done your very best with your kids and didnt have to leave them at all.
One thing that really makes me upset is people asking me why i dont get a job. My beliefs are the husband works and the wife takes care of the house and kids. They tell me that since money is an issue for us maybe i should get at least a part time job. Lets look at somethings here and put everything out on the table...If i get a job through the day i miss out on everything with my kids. Now they have to go to daycare. How much does day care cost? Prolly most if not all of my paycheck. Remember i have two kids i have to pay for not just one. And what kind of job am i going to get? Probably flipping burgers and theres no money in that. I should know i have worked at wendys and taco bell...So now i get a job on the weekends.. Most of the time my husband works.Who is going to watch them now..Again got to go and pay for daycare.But wait what daycare is open on the weekends. And if by chance hubby doesnt have to work weekends now it will be hubby and son playing video games all weekend and a poor little girl left alone because daddy dont know how to do girl things. Now what about nights..Who in their right mind would spend all day cleaning teaching playing cooking what have you and then go work 8 hrs at night or longer? I dont know about you but i think i would die of exhausten within a month or so. Most of the time i wish people would get off my back about a job especially when money gets really hard on us. I think i work just as hard as my husband does. This is our life. These are my jobs. People may not agree with the choices we have made but guess what? If you dont like it look the other way.. Im not changing anything in my life to make someone else happier. yes we have our money problems but im not at all dissappointed at the life we are leading.
I love my jobs.