I’m JUST a Mom…try again!

So here I am-another woman with a ton of things to say.  Who am I?  I am a mom.  That’s all you ask?  You’re JUST a mom?  JUST a mom?  Are you kidding me?  You can never be JUST a mom.  Because a mom IS a job!  In fact being a mom is the absolute HARDEST job on the planet.   If you are not yet a mom yourself, then you probably won’t agree with that statement.   

Remember when you were a kid and your own mom would say “wait until you have kids of your own!”  You know…when she was screaming at you for something you did or didn’t do and “can’t wait” until the day when your own children pay you back for everything you did to your parents when you were a kid?  I remember hating to hear my mother say that to me and thinking…”yeah whatever!”   Well I am a mom now and I am here to tell you…now I “get” it!   Soooo…. my blog is about just how MUCH of a job being a mom really is.    

Being a mom is a profession really. 

I guess I need to tell you a little bit about me.  I am a thirty-something year old stay-at-home mother of two boys ages 6 and  3.  Before I had my first son, I was a middle school teacher.   Teaching was the hardest job I’d ever had…until I had kids.  However, teaching prepubescent preteens was certainly a good lesson in patience, discipline, and guidance (”training”  if you will) for what would later become the teaching  job of a lifetime….motherhood.