So I was watching a TV show today and I heard something that I've heard so many times from guys before. The man said that he doesn't know why his wife has it so hard being a stay at home mom. Well let me tell all of you guys that are my friends that may read this, being a stay at home mom is a full time job and is just as stressful as your jobs and require just as much work! Some moms have just the child to take care of but in most cases, if you are a stay at home mom, it's because you're married and your husband has the income so that you don't have to. So as such, of course your first responsibility is to your child. That means that you never sleep in. As soon as your child is awake, they are up. Needing either a bottle or diaper change. Especially when you have a baby. Then, once you have the baby taken care of, your next responsibility is to get your husband up and off to work, making sure their breakfast is done, lunch is made and ready to go, coffee is brewed, and if you have a man that takes any medications, you have to make sure he takes his meds. And you do all of this because you love him, not because you have to. Once you have him taken care of and off to work, you go back to your child. Who now that they are done eating, is needing mommy time. Once you cuddle a bit and give that baby some mommy time, there has to be some play time and some reading. Then after about an hour of that, you lay the baby down for a nap in which if you're lucky, you get about thirty minutes to an hour to have some breathing time and pick up close by. Or at least I do. My daughter doesn't nap in her crib. So I get the living room picked up and by the time I sit down for a bit, she's awake. By this point it's almost noon. It's time for me to eat and getting close to time for her to eat again too. So I fix myself something, make her a bottle and feed us both. Then we once more have some mommy and me time and by around 1, I have her hooked up to a pack on my chest and I do the rest of the house work. Dishes, getting food ready for dinner, sweeping and mopping (Because I have hard wood floors), and of course, lets not forget, calling around and paying bills, talking to doctors, fitting a phone call into my husband in there once in while and putting her down for her afternoon nap. I get about 2 good hours to do what I want, which is usually napping myself because I've already been going for 10 solid hours non stop. Now she wakes up and is ready for her afternoon bottle which I give her while doing laundry, making sure that my child has clothes to wear the next day and my husband has work clothes and clean drawers to put on every day. Oh lets not forget, every other day, while cleaning after lunch, she gets a bath too. Anyway back to my point. So once she's done, she goes into her bouncy chair and comes up stairs with me so that I can start dinner and have it ready for my husband when he gets home. I don't do this because I have to, I do it because I know that my husband is out there busting his hump so that I can set here with the baby and watch her grow up. Once he gets home it becomes a run around of making sure his coffee cup is clean for the next morning, taking care of any left overs that may be still on the stove, running the dish machine again, checking my husband for ticks because he has a job that keeps him outside all the time, making sure his plate and glass is full, and getting him some of the clean drawers that are in the dryer, as well as his shorts to wear. Now somewhere in the midst of all of this, my daughter gets a jar of food to eat and another bottle and IF her daddy gets home in time to see her and kiss her good night, then it's been a good night. Other wise she goes down for the night. Now I don't think I need to mention through out the day I probably change 30 diapers, give a million hugs and kisses and clean up drool and spit up. All day long. Now, once she's asleep, if by some miracle I'm not dead on my feet, I get to spend about 30 minutes with my husband before he crashes out completely because he's been working for around 12 hours. Now I suppose you could say by this time I've technically been going for about 16, maybe 17 hours by now. Knowing that in 7 hours I've got to get up and do it all again. And that is only IF my daughter doesn't wake up in the middle of the night with a night mare, needing a diaper change, or suddenly in a growth spurt and needing another bottle. Oh and somewhere in the midst of my pretty much 24 hour a day job with a few down times, if I'm lucky, I can get a shower every other day. I get no me time, unless my husband actually has a few seconds to watch the baby and I can get out. Or my brother in law, which has been an absolute blessing in my life. Point to be made here is those men out there that think that life is so easy for a home maker and stay at home mom, of a baby at that, have no idea what my life is like. And to top that off...I don't get a paycheck for it! So don't judge, and don't think you know what happens behind closed doors, because you don't! Learn to appreciate your wives/mothers whatever and understand that life aint any easier or less stressful because I don't go to work for 8 hours a day, because you have NO IDEA what my day consists of.

Okay folks gonna step into my soap box and get a little bit political here. It's frustrating and here is just my humble opinion. I think it's deplorable for what's happened in Nashville to not be even commented on by our famous wonder. You know Bush was on the television 3 days before Katrina hit, he was on the tv the day Katrina left and was ready to help out the second they asked. Obama hasn't said a single word about what's going on in Tennessee right now. Oh wait...could it be because Tennessee is a Republican state? Begs the question doesn't it? Or does it? It took him over a week to say something about what was going on in the gulf so that doesn't really say much about that. But you know, everyone and their brother was all up in arms about how Bush didn't do anything for La when Katrina hit is just absolute crap but oh no one says anything about the fact that Obama not only takes a WEEK to even say ANYTHING about the oil rig and hasn't even said ANYTHING about the tragedy in Nashville? Whatever people! I'm so tired of the freaking double standards that everyone shows him because "Ooh he's the first black president..." Ahhh! So what! News flash folks....HE'S NOT EVEN BLACK! I'm more Native American than he is black and I don't have much of that in me! Oh and here's another one... HE STILL has yet to PROVE that he's even a US citizen! Yeah! And he hasn't been questioned yet? WTH America!? Anyway, again, these are just my opinions on this subject. Love em or hate em it is what it is.