Sunday, January 23, 2011

The birth of a housewife

Ok, so I am new to this world-o-blogging. Other than a few rants on my old Myspace page, I have never made a blog before in my life. So, this being said, I want to thank you in advance for reading and I hope I don't sound too retarded. (That's probably not politically correct, huh? Oh well, this is the internet...nobody said I had to be PC).

For my first entry, I would like to provide a little background on why I decided to do this in the first place. I am 25 years old, married to an awesome man, and we have a 2 month old daughter together. We live in a 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bathroom home and we have 4 crazy, tiny dogs. I have a degree in early childhood, elementary, and special education, have previously taught preschool, and substitute taught for a great school district. I have not worked since the end of May 2010, thus making me a, wait for it, housewife.

I could easily continue being a substitute teacher, but when I graduated college, I had it in my head that I would enter the real world and land MY ideal job of teaching kindergarten. "Picture it," I once said to myself, "Your own classroom inside of an amazing school within an amazing district, your own teaching style, implementing your own lesson plans.Picture it." What I didn't picture was how competitive this damned county is, how hard it is to get a job in the ideal district (fuck you, nepotism!), and how disappointing it would be in the long-run of teaching preschool. (sigh).  Throughout my pregnancy, the husband and I discussed what I would do about working. Would I substitute teach every day, 3 days a week, or less than that? What about childcare while I was at work? The husband works nights, and has to catch up on sleep during the day. My parents offered to babysit as often as possible, but surly they couldn't do it every day.
"What if you stayed home for a while?" The husband asked one day during my 2nd trimester. Hmm...what if I did? But then where would that leave us financially? What about my degree? Well, the husband said not to worry, we will be fine, and I can always go back to teaching at a later date if I so desired.
Who in their right mind would argue with this?! Most new mothers would kill to stay home with their babies. It's a privilege that I am truly grateful for. Now I can stay home and relax, cuddle my baby as much as I want with no interruptions, and sit on my ass eating bon-bons and watching soaps all day. AWESOME!

Ok, no...guys, seriously. Housewives DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT sit on their bums all day eating and watching television, nor do we all get the luxury of taking our husband's hard earned cash for a week full of shopping sprees with our bestest girlfriends. Forget about what you saw on those network shows about the "Real Housewives of (insert major city name here)" Those women aren't "REAL" housewives. They are rich, snooty, wenches who wouldn't know the hardships of being a housewife if it jumped up and bit them on their implants.

So follow me on my journey of being a young housewife. I will try as often as possible to update my readers (if any) on my day and what exactly I have been doing with all this "spare time."

I thank you kindly for reading my very first blog post, and hope that you become a regular. :)

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