When we were younger, my sisters and I used a\u00a0term to describe priests who were cute (and therefore should have been out among “us” and not off-the-market and all “dedicated to God” and stuff).\u00a0 We called them\u00a0“Father What a Waste.”<\/p>\n
Lately I kindof feel like a “Stay at Home Mom What a Waste.”\u00a0 And not just because I’m cute.\u00a0 I mean, I’ve got some mad skillzzz.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0am eminently employable and could be out there, among the rest of you,\u00a0earning six figures!\u00a0 Instead, I bake cookies, vacuum floors, clean bathrooms (poorly I might add) and\u00a0run nonsensical errands all while\u00a0contributing nothing to the family income.<\/p>\n
Also, I did the stay at home mom thing the wrong way around.\u00a0 I didn’t do it when the kids were babies.\u00a0 I did the requisite FMLA leave of 3 months then\u00a0dusted off my hands, hitched my breast pump over my shoulder and headed out!\u00a0 It would have made more sense to have done the stay at home mom gig THEN rather than NOW!<\/p>\n
(on the plus side, I can always liven up a party by trotting out\u00a0the\u00a0most-embarrassing-usage-of-a-breast-pump-while-on-a-business-trip story you’ve EVER heard!)<\/p>\n
But now?\u00a0 Now – I\u00a0just rattle around all day in my\u00a0constantly-dirty-house\u00a0avoiding Kohl’s and their ever-beguiling\u00a0“cash” (cash my a$$ – I should just drive by their store periodically and throw a $20 out the car window) trying to come up with craft projects and volunteer jobs to fill my time.<\/p>\n
Gheesh.\u00a0 What a waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When we were younger, my sisters and I used a\u00a0term to describe priests who were cute (and therefore should have been out among “us” and not off-the-market and all “dedicated to God” and stuff).\u00a0 We called them\u00a0“Father What a Waste.” Lately I kindof feel like a “Stay at Home Mom What a Waste.”\u00a0 And not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}