Taking the day off today to stay home with a sickly five year old, I had my first experience at a Pinterest craft failure. It was pleasant....there was tantrums, snot, f bombs and finally the slam of a trash can lid. I really don't want to talk about it.....soooooo how was your day?
I mean, I know people get sick and that's what sick days are for but as a working mother, it is so stressful to have illness hit your house. I mean I pray for it to show up on Fridays around 3pm so I have the rest of the weekend to nurse my family back to health without worry. My luck doesn't work like that though so it seems to always hit on a Tuesday.
I am about to shock you. Most moms who work out of the home do it out of financial necessity. Gasp. Yes, it's not that we choose to abandon our children 40 hours a week with the added bonus of a paycheck for that time, but for the most part National Grid Electric company likes to have their money every month and the only way it gets paid is by someone bringing home some bacon. I don't have the body for prostitution or stripping so I had to get a day job. Which for the most part, is a great job. I have a job most would be envious of. I never wake up trying to think of a viable reason to call in. So when I do call in, you know there is some serious sickness going down.
I truly wonder how Moms who get to stay home do it. Are you a trust fund baby? Did you hit pay day by marrying a man who makes enough to support your entire family? Do you pinch pennies beyond belief? However you make it happen, I am jealous. If you ever want to shart your secrets, I have an ear waiting to listen.
My husband works full time for a great company as well. I think I would freak out more if he lost his job than if I did because he has the benefits. He provides our family with health, dental, vision, prescription and life insurance. By the time all those premiums plus retirement and his child support for his older two children come out of his pay it is no where near what we would need to support our family.
I am a couponing, sale shopping, penny pinching parent (the name of my Facebook page). We live in an older home, drive modest vehicles and have been known to wear underwear with holes in them. Without my paycheck, ends would never meet. Even with my paycheck, sometimes ends don't meet. I can clearly remember time where the bank account was empty and so were our cupboards. Pancakes for dinner kinds of nights. Just recently have I started to feel like we are back on our feet (Brian's sudden open heart surgery knocked us off for years).
Just this week alone, our propane ran empty weeks earlier than it should have, we discovered we need a new hot water heater (hence the propane running out), Brian shot a deer and took it to the meat shop and now I have had to take some unanticipated time off. Extra unexpected expenses, reduced expected income. Yikes.
Oh yeah and I had to put two new tires on my car.
When I encounter times like this I have to take deep breaths and remind myself tomorrow is a new day and that next month none of this will matter. It will all be dust in the wind. I repeat one of my favorite sayings...."This too shall pass..."
Madison is starting to run another fever.....maybe Saturday will be a new day....
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