Altered perceptions here, translated…
For a long time, I’d believed, that being a full-time mother is not a job, it’s just managing the house, that it should be easy to do; and so, I’d discussed it with my husband, although that the economic burdens would be a bit heavier, but, it wouldn’t ruin us completely, and so, I’d asked for maternity leave from the hospital I worked. Later on, I’d realized, that the role of a mother is really hard to manage, and, being a FULL-TIME mother is a job, that allows for NO rest 24/7, 365 days a year!
Being optimistic is one of the best qualities I have, but, it’d become the way I’d handled everything I’d encountered. In the hospitals, the patients’ conditions would get better because of the meds we’d administered to them, and, when I couldn’t solve their problems, I can always ask a doctor to help them. I naively believed, that taking care of a newborn child is exactly so too, but, we can’t medicate our kids. From before I found it hard to believe, that a person needed the extra arms, and now, I’d HOPED that I have the extra arms too, especially when I was feeding my six months old youngest son his solid foods, and my three-year-old older son started crying about how he needed to go to the potty; or as I was changing my youngest’s diapers, my oldest son tipped over his bowl; or, when I was bathing the older brother, with the younger brother, crying like HELL outside the bathroom doors………I can give you a MILLION examples, and so, naturally, having THREE heads, SIX extra arms still wouldn’t DO the trick at all.
But, if you asked me if I regretted taking a leave of absence to become a full-time mother, of course N-O-T! No matter how tiresome, there are the rewards, after all, a child only grows up just that one time, and, the time when I’m tucking my children into bed, the intimately interacting with them, is nothing you can buy with money.
The me now, I’m not only in awe at all of the full-time mothers, I will proudly introduce to others—my occupation IS a full-time mom!
And so, this, is how a woman transitioned from a career woman, into a stay-at-home mother, and, surely enough, she’d learned, that taking care of her young children is NO easy task, and after she’d had the experiences of working outside the home, she’d chosen to stay at home, as a full-time mother, because she’d realized, that the children only grows up just this once.
Life, the Obstacle Course 