Since I quit my former day job a few months back, I've been having trouble with this whole labeling thing that comes with being home with your kids. I stay at home, but I also work from home. I work from home alot - basically any moment the kids are asleep. And then I do everything else associated with being a stay at home mom, except cleaning bathrooms. I leave that for Noah Drake (even doctors have to clean bathrooms).
If I were a true "stay at home" mom, let's face it - it's still work: taking care of your kids and running a household is a shitload of chaos.
I get irritated when people need to classify moms - and dads for that matter - into one bucket. You're either one or the other. How could you possibly be more? You're either a stay at home mom/dad, a work from home mom/dad, a stay at work mom/dad. But what if you're like me - an insane mix of all of the above. Just because I work from home it doesn't mean I have a nanny taking care of my kids. I just work around their nap schedules. And late at night. I have employers, I have clients. I still have a foot in the door in the corporate realm. And I know I'm not the only mom who's doing this.
I've decided to come up with my own label for what I am: a slash/mom. It covers stay at home/work from home/stay at work MOM. Everything is a slash. It's the only way you can capture what you do.
But in the end it doesn't really matter what's in between the slashes. They all add up to the same thing.
I'm a mom...and then some.
