BAYLEE BLANCARTE Every Wednesday I take the newspapers to Tryon post office. This Wednesday was no different.
On my drive I saw two separate mothers with toddlers playing on the trampolines in their yards.
I thought about how on nice warm days, like today, I used to take Charlee and Tillie outside to play and soak up the sun.
Not now though. This morning when we dropped the girls off at daycare, Tillie cried for me and Brayden.
She didn’t want to stay at daycare and just wanted mom and dad. Anytime either of the girls do that it breaks my heart and makes it so hard to go to work for the day.
Life isn’t made easy,especially nowadays. Just rent alone is almost $1,000 a month.
Then when you add everything else on, it’s just not possible for most families to live off one income.
So, the memories running through my brain of when I was a stayat home mom with the girls as I made my drive seemed to flood me with emotions.
Emotions of what I miss every Monday-Friday with Charlee and Tillie as they grow into little humans.
Every laugh I miss, every hug opportunity, every scraped knee, every cry, and all the other things they experience those five days out of the week.
Then I caught myself thinking about Banks and how I will have limited time with him before having to return to work after he’s born.
With both of the girls I didn’t have a job to return to so I spent every day with them until Charlee had just turned two years old and Tillie had just turned one.
With Banks I won’t be getting that. I think about all the moms who don’t get to have that time with their babies. If you ask me, that’s not okay.
We as women are expected to carry a baby for nine months, give birth, get roughly two months with said baby, and then return to work.
If we choose to not go back to work then we are facing all sorts of struggles because of the cost to live comfortably.
Isn’t this a crazy thing? So to all you hard working moms missing the moments with your babies so you can live comfortably with your family, you are seen and you’re in my thoughts.