MOM is the word

Ok here's what it is, We are called stay-at-home moms. We don't like to call ourselves homemakers anymore. That word is too cliched now. Because we not only take care of the house we do something more than that. We raise children. We may not have a 9-5 job. We don't bring home salary. But that does not mean that we are not contributing enough. Isn't raising a child good enough. Are we supposed to feel guilty that everyday morning we don't wake up and walk out of the house carrying a laptop. Are we supposed to be ashamed that we walk into our house single handed carrying a grocery bag of minimum 10 kilos. We may not be whacking our brains making power point presentations or business proposals but hello we do whack our brains thinking of ways to keep our little ones busy, ways to distract them from the TV and ways to make their daily meal more interesting and edible. We have no idea how the day is going to turn out when we wake up in the morning. We don't know if our little one will successfully finish one meal, throw a tantrum, fall and hurt himself. We don't know any thing before hand but we need to be prepared for this. All those who go out there to work are slogging their ass off because they know that if they perform they get paid well. What do we get? We work our ass off bringing our child up so when they grow up we get to hear this - 'Shut up mom you don't know anything.' Ya right !! We know that a day like that will come but we can't walk out of our jobs can we? We don't have weekends. Everyday is MONDAY for us. Everyday is MONTH END. We have job appraisals everyday. But on 30th of every month our bank accounts don't go up. We don't hear people saying this very often that we are doing a great job but we do have people telling us what a bad mother we are. But that does not bring our spirits down because when we look at that little cherubic face smiling back at us and calling us 'MOM' we forget everything and start claiming that we have the best job in the world. So the next time someone walks up to you and asks you if you're working, then you bloody well know what to tell them right? They don't call us Super moms for no reason right.