Hey guys, so thanks for tuning back into the Clutterbug Podcast.

Today I want to talk about being a stay-at-home mom or a work-at-home mom and the expectations that come along with that.

And some of those expectations we put on ourselves,

but I think there's also expectations from society

and our loved ones, friends and family, all of that.

So as a stay-at-home parent, or a work-at-home parent,

it's hard to really have a lot of tangible results.

So if you're going to work outside of the home, you can sort of show people with whatever type of work you're producing, what you've actually accomplished.

But when you're home and you have small children it's so much harder to show

you know what you've accomplished in a day because it takes so much longer to do

everything and if you are a stay-at-home parent I know you feel me and if you're a work-at-home

parent I think this is even magnified and you know made worse so I've always called

myself a stay-at-home parent and it's sort of a touchy subject for me because the truth is there's never been a moment where I have not worked full time.

As a parent, as a stay-at-home parent, I wanted to stay home with my kids, but I still needed to earn a full income

So I ran a daycare for six years and I started blogging

Probably three years into that daycare and when I started earning enough money after three or four years I started earning enough money that it made as much as the daycare

then I could finally quit doing the daycare and switch to blogging full time but there was

a time where I was not only home with my own kids running a full-time daycare,

taking care of the house and everything that entailed and blogging, all at the same time.

And I wasn't doing any of it particularly well to be completely honest but I was

busy I was crazy busy and then when I switched to just blogging and being a stay-at-home

parent my life definitely got a little bit easier for sure, but I'm still doing both jobs so I still feel like

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