I am, (once again and for good), a stay-at-home mom, and this time I'm not hugely pregnant or recovering from having a baby. This means, not only do I have to energy to be productive, but no excuse not to be. This has actually been kind of difficult for me. For the last 30 years of my life, I have had to be productive. Either because I didn't want grounded or priviledges revoked, or because I didn't want to be fired from the job that I was being paid to do. It wasn't hard for me to be productive, because I've always had a good helping of work ethic and pride in doing a good job, or my slight OCD wouldn't let me do a lesser job.
Housework on the other hand.....well, let us just say I did it because it had to be done if I wanted clean clothes, or dishes to eat on, or gross bugs to not infest my house. Mostly I think my attitude towards the house duties, were because I was pretty wore out from my job and trying to meet my husband and childrens needs, that I just didn't have the energy left to keep up on the housework.
Yup, I now have a new job, and I've settled into actually taking pride in the work I do around the house, instead of doing it begrudgingly.
It helps that when my husband gets home, and I tell him to go look, that he does, and gives me the appropriate approval comment (something along the lines of "ooooooooh nice!"), accompanied with a smirk, a kiss, and a wink. Yup, I may seem a lot more boring to some of you now, but hey, I know what that wink meant and boring isn't it.
My job has some great perks!
