First Mother's day

Being that Mother's day has come and gone, I have a few thoughts regarding the statement "just a stay at home mom". I learned to hate this saying!!! There is a negative connotation to this saying! The word "just" shortens the whole statement! Moms are such bad asses! They push out a baby for starters and then have to take care of this baby from the get go. Women are instantly put into many roles and become a nurse, a cook, a chauffeur, a coach, a maid, a teacher, a tutor, entertainment, laundress, and within those things there is like 50 more things that they have to do! All while trying to raise children to be civil out in public. The word "just" does not simply cover all of these roles! This sentence makes everyone think that a mother just sits around the house and does absolutely nothing. Just sit on the couch and binge watch Netflix for hours on end. (Although lets be real...sometimes binge watching Netflix is totally a must some days!) It shortens the mothers ability of what she really does from day to day. I have realized this, and I was one of those people who looked down at women who were "just stay at home moms". I looked down on them and thought that being such a thing was the worst thing for me to be when I was "older".

Side note: I never wanted to get married. I was never one of those girls that dreamed of getting married to "Prince Charming" and living happily ever after. I never really wanted a family either. In fact mormon guys hated how much I did not want any kids and broke up with me because of that reason! haha! Lame I know! I never thought that being married and children were in the cards. Plus I never really was that young woman that loved baby sitting! In fact after a certain incident, I swore off babysitting!! And no need to run to Tyler saying all of this to him, he already knows, and in fact he never wanted to get married anyway (he wanted to be that cool rich single Uncle)...and yet here we are! Married and have twins! JOKE IS ON US! haha!!!

So now that I am a actual stay at home mom, living in California where this profession rarely exists. I learned to say that I am a VP of Domestic Affairs. Which totally fits and gets rid of that stupid saying. It's the 21st century, this whole "just" thing needs to be kicked out the door! I say that I am the VP because my husband is also the VP. There is not just one president of the family that makes all the decisions. Parenting takes two people in a family.

All in all, this is my little rant. A rant that I have been thinking about for a while now, and just need  to get it out. Mothers are more than "just" and they need to be celebrated and loved! I wouldn't change my first Mother's day for the world. I love all of my boys, and wouldn't change my job as a VP for the world.

Our first beach trip. Overall good experience, minus the cold.