I'm A Work At Home Mom and I Don't Do Sh!t.

Whether you are a stay at home mom or a work at home mom, I'm sure you've already heard a time or 20 how lucky you are to be able to stay at home all day and that you must basically do like, nothing, right?  Like, you couldn't possibly do as much as all those mom's that have to go to work everyday. 

​I. Don't. Think. So.

​You see, I've been both, and let me tell you, being the working mom was easier.  Maybe it wasn't as rewarding, necessarily, but it was easier.  I could go to work and focus on the task at hand while someone else cared for my child.  That's not a knock to the working mom, either.  It's honestly just what my experience was.

​Now, though it may be more difficult, I wouldn't trade being a work at home mom for anything, but imagine my surprise when I received these text messages from my significant other with quite the colorful choice of words (hehe)!

​Good ole auto correct corrected my "nothing" to boring, so I attempted to fix it just for you (haha), but you get the drift.  Before you get too mad at my dude - he was uber stressed at that particular moment, and none of us are perfect, so let's forgive him and move on.

But just to clear things up for everyone that loves to be up in my business:  ​I am how everyone's laundry gets done, I am how people have towels to dry off with when they get out of the shower,

 ​I'm the one who wipes people's pee off the toilet seat, I'm the one who picks up various articles of clothing on a daily basis and gets them to the laundry room, I am the one who puts food on the table (and not your run of the mill mac n' cheese or frozen pizza - I make healthy shit for my family), like my, "Make you poop Chili", Veggie Pot Pie (like chicken, but better, and vegan friendly), and my Baked Spaghetti (where I hide garlic, peppers, and other healthy stuff that the kids don't know about) which you can find in my recipes section sometime next week.

​I am the one who drops off and picks up from school, I am the one who makes sure there are groceries in the house,

​I am the one who makes sure kids have gifts for birthday parties and that they get there, I am almost always the one who gets the children to their sporting activities, I clean up the house at least 3 times a day ( after the toddler destroys it in the morning, after he destroys it in the afternoon, and one final time before I go to bed.)

Then, some where in between all that, I have to find time to run my business so I can pay a car payment, pay for cell phones, put lunch money in bank accounts, pay for insurance, Netflix, Internet, vehicle repairs ($2,500 was my most recent) & maintenance, clothing (even thought I shop mostly second hand or support other small shop's) and provide somewhat of a tiny cushion in the bank in case one of us is ever out of work or falls ill.  Below is an example of a typical "I do nothing" type of day (haha!).

​I run an Instagram account, Facebook business account & group, Pinterest account, Tumblr account, & Twitter account for my Etsy shop and my company website, LivAndCo.com , where I design and manufacture adorable clothing and accessories for your babies and children and occasionally come up with some fab adult tee's as well. 

​I would challenge anyone that has a problem to walk a day in my shoes. You'll die after my morning workout, I promise ;)  (visit my Facebook page Live Better With Liv .  It's my hobby page.), but me, that's just my warm up for getting prepared to rockstar through my day.

While my significant other (who does work his tail off to help support our brood) gets to come home as his break on a weekly basis, I do not have that luxury.  Weekends mean virtually nothing to me.  I'm still rocking the mom boss gig 24/7/365, and if I'm lucky, I may get a tiny vacation or 2 a year (but even then I bring my work with me because I can't afford to take off and I also cannot afford the mental stress of getting backed up on orders).

I have ZERO margin for error. When an emergency comes up, it throws everything off whack, because I literally chew up every moment of my day MOVING and getting stuff done.

So to all the mom bosses - those that are stay at home mom's, work at home mom's, or mom's that hold down that 9-5 and still come home to bathe the kids and put dinner on the table, but get told you must not do much - this one is for you!

I have to go now because I really don't even have enough time to write this post (haha).  No really, I have to go give my son a bath...