There are many benefits to being a work-at-home Mom or WAHM. You can be with your kids and you can get rid of daycare costs. You are never late for work. You can hang out all day in your pajamas if you want to so long as you make sure that you are working. You can be an entrepreneur and make a ton of money. And you can battle with keeping your house clean and getting your laundry done just like any other Mom.

Moms are the Chief Executive Officers of the entire household. If a mom works at home or if she goes off to a job outside the home, it seems that her main job is to make sure that the household runs effortlessly. Work at home moms have to be even more disciplined since she needs to work and make a living rather than stop and mop up the mess of the house, do the laundry and scrub the toilets. It could just take a minute but she is supposed to be working!

Mom is responsible for most of the cleaning of the house, like the washing of the dishes, the doing of the laundry, the scrubbing of the toilets and as well the bulk of the grocery shopping and meal preparation and the mom is the one who attends all of the PTA meetings. Dad’s help and some dad’s help a lot but for some reason it seems to be more of moms responsibility.

Certainly, most of that is mom’s fault. Most mom’s desire to have it all, a fantastic business or career, loads of money in the bank, well behaved and beautiful children and a clean house to boot. In addition we also want plenty of free time to exercises and get in shape, read books, surf the Internet and enjoy family time. Can a WAHM have it all?

The reality is that when you are trying to do it all by yourself something has to give. After all there are only so many hours in a day. We have heard that following every successful woman is a huge pile of dirty laundry and that is true. It’s tough to get the laundry done when you are working on much more important things.

But money notwithstanding and in a perfect world, moms could delegate out the chores that they struggle with and of course, one of the first things to hire out would be a housecleaner. There are people who love to clean and they are very good at it. Perhaps Mom’s time is better spent doing something else and the person who loves to clean can stop by and make a living by cleaning the house.

Then mom can get someone to do the laundry, the yard work, and start getting the groceries delivered. Mom’s time is better spent working on something else!

However even with all of the challenges of working at home while getting the laundry finished and keeping the house clean being a WAHM is a fantastic job. Can’t beat it. However the kitchen is still a mess and there is a large pile of dirty clothes on the laundry room floor. Better hire that maid right away!

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