Working Moms

[LizAgna]

Another working mom checking in here...I work full time about 5 miles from home. I am very lucky to have a flexible work schedule. I am always able to take off if one of my DD's has something going on at school/daycare. My DDs 10 & 3. Oldest rides the bus to school & DH takes youngest to daycare. My hours are 8:30 to 5:30 with very little OT.

My house is also a mess but when the girls are grown I'll have time to keep it clean. For now I will take them where they need to go and sew for them while they still enjoy it...at least the youngest does, the oldest likes for me to monogram things for her instead of sew for her now.

In addition to working full time I monogram for people...that's how we get most of our Disney money! I'm glad to know there are so many other working moms that are Disers!

 

[becky_AK]

I'm a working mom I have a 5 month old son. I went back to work 3 weeks after he was born!! It was soooo hard, but my DH quit his job and stayed home with our son, so it wasn't so bad. My DH is starting a job next week & we are putting our son in full-time daycare. We are both so nervous & sad about this, but we can't get by on 1 income, it's just too tough. I wish I could work from home, but it seems that there are not really any legitimate opportunities out there & I work for a college, so it's not realistic for me to bring my work home.

 

[vern]

i work full/part time love getting home a 3 and vegging with my ds7months for 30min-1hr before dbf and the girls10 & 6 get home but soon i'll be going back to full time(not if i can help it)

 

[pigletforever]

I worked outside the home for 12 years until my oldest was in 7th grade. He is almost 18 now. We then adopted our other son who is almost 5. I have been a SAHM since he was born. I will be going back to school full time to finish my degree in social work this fall and then I will be back in the workforce part time.

 

[funcinderella]

I'm also a working mom, have b/g twins that are just about 6, and am recently divorced. I had a plan all laid out, my ex worked p/t while the kids were smaller (I made the larger salary), and the grandmas also helped with daycare, and our house would have been paid off when the kids hit 12, so then it was supposed to be my turn to work p/t (or not at all!) Unfortunately, I'm now divorced and back to 29 years left on the mortgage (ouch!) so I guess I'll always be working full time. I think part time would be the perfect compromise (I'd definitely be one of those Moms that would be off to the zoo or the amusement park if I was home all day!) My Mom watches my kids, takes them to the doctor and activities, etc, without a complaint (she really loves doing it) so I definitely can't complain; I also work only 3 miles from home. She also cooks dinner for us every night, and has the kids homework done; yet I STILL feel like I don't have enough time to get everything done! I guess I still need to come to grips with the fact that my house will never be clean! I think it goes back to when I was married, my mother in law and sister in law were both neat freaks, and would drop the hints about my messy house; I tried to console myself with the fact that neither of them ever worked at all while there kids were little, and never had twins either, while I went back full time when mine were 4 months old, but it still got to me.... it's hard to get rid of that "perfect Mommy " syndrome...

 

[cedmonds]

Hi I have had the opportunity to be both a SAHM and a full time working mom.
when my big ones were little I stayed home full time. Money was tight my dh worked two jobs and we never went to Disney-dreamed but we were happy. We live in a beach community so all summer my children had in their back yard what people spent thousands of dollars to have for the summer. So our life was okay. I really loved being home but we missed having dh around and the stress of two jobs was starting to wear on him
After ds was born 12 years later I went back to work full time as a teacher when he started kdg. It was tough, no matter how much dh thought he was helping the dinner, laundry, hosecleaning kinda still ended up in my lap.
We now are DVC members and have been on 6 trips to WDW and one to Disneyland in the last three years so feast or famine. But my oldest was 18 on her first trip to wdw. Everything is a compromise and whoever said we could have it all LIED but I try to embrace each day and have learned to let go of the things that really donot matter. Laundry gets done, in time, house is clean ..enough and everyone helps so this way we still get to travel to our favorite place.