Invisible

Being a mom (especially a stay at home mom) is sometimes an invisible job.

I can't speak for other moms, and maybe some have never thought of it like that.

I was just browsing my facebook feed on my phone and saw a friend's status...She was supposed to be busy baking cookies, wrapping presents, making food, and instead...she was holding her crying baby. While it was the right thing to be doing, she was frustrated and felt invisible.

I thought to myself...wow, I feel like that all the time. Invisible...especially when the kids aren't listening, and need to sit in time out.

Or when the girls aren't getting along, and need to wear their get along shirt.

I take care of my girls all day, and I'm on-call at night if one wakes up crying. I haven't gotten a full nights sleep in years.

But that's part of being a good mom...the details you do for your families that go unnoticed and unknown unless not taken care of.

And being a mom isn't about getting acknowledged for all the unspoken things we do. It's about doing the things that need to be done and knowing we accomplished it...even if its rocking our crying baby to sleep. Or buying a new toothbrush for a kid that just got over a cold. Or washing a blanket to get the spit up out.

A mom's job is not invisible. A mom's job is just a behind-the-scenes kind of job. Like at a play...the person that directs the cast backstage where to go next, make up, hair, costumes, etc. Or the person that makes a snack for the cast...I mean no one thinks, wow the person that had water waiting for the characters off stage in between scenes was great!

But instead... mom's get rewarded with smiles like these...

So even though we may feel invisible sometimes...our kids know us, even when they don't listen. We help shape our kids into who they grow up to be.  And that's very important.