1. Personal Chef
I am not just the chef but a personal one because all the meals I plan are catered around what the people in my house, mainly, the kids will eat.
2. Event Planner
I am the one who owns the family calendar. All play dates, family get-togethers, Hayden sleep-overs, work days, Mom/Dad dates must go through me.
3. Therapist
If you need to talk, I am there or at least I will give you my email. I will also help you learn that it is not nice to call some one a 'weirdo silly sock head' and how would you like it if you were called a name like that.
4. Healer
A kiss from me will make any scrape, bite, bump, bruise, or what every ails you feel all better (this only works best for those 5 and under so far).
5. Stylist
I am the one who dresses all the people in the house, some I literally dress and others I just provide them with clothing that will fit them, suit their needs and want to be worn.
6. Porn Star
Now this one is not for the kids but you gotta keep the sex part of a marriage a live and well and that is all I am going to say on this one.
7. Resident Handy Person
(but only when Jeff is not home then this job is gratefully handed over)
I can try and fix most things in the house. If not you will just have to wait until Daddy gets home.
8. Media Specialist
All video games, DVD's and books must be approved by me before they are played or watched. I am also good a reading a book to you and I have a great talent for finding Mario coloring pictures on the Internet.
9. Seamstress
If a button falls off, seam is ripped, I am there. I have my trusty needle and thread and I will fix you up. But I only have one color so I hope that you don't mind a black stitch on the white shirt.
10. Referee
This is one that I don't like to play but some one has to get Jake off of Claire's head and stop the screaming so that Hayden will stop yelling, "All the screaming is hurting my ears."
36 comments:
Great list! So true!
can I steal your list? Maybe people would appreciate me more if i listed everything I really do do...!
This is a great and funny list! Except I'd have to remove handyerson from mine... If hubs sees me walking with any tool other than the gardening type the house goes on high alert and I get locked down. I might have accidentally made things worse once or twice rather than "fixing" them :)
Go you on #6. I am sure your husband is very happy on that one!!!!!! And is it bad that where you wrote Therapist I thought I saw The rapist which would also make your hubs very happy :)
Amen.
But I can't believe you left the role of "house cleaner" off the list! You must be too busy being a porn star. I'm a porn star too...but mostly just for myself. ;)
Love your list! I wonder how much you'd make if you were to be paid for all those jobs...
May I borrow your list to enlarge and paste all over the fridge? I mean ALL over the fridge. Maybe even inside the fridge. In the fruit drawer. Taped to the milk jug.
Life with little ones is busy, but when you look at all the things you're learning to do, it's awfully worth it, dontchy think?!
I'm sure you do even more than you can possibly imagine. Yay you! Keep up the amazing mommy work!
I had to giggle with #6! But it's so true!
So funny! I split my roles out too. Love yoru list. :)
I'm not sure how you do it. Or I do it. Or any of us do it. We should really get paid a lot more! :)
I laughed at the porn star one, like the immature person that I am...
Great list! So, so true. I decided to do the 101 in a 1001 and one of the things on my list was do something special for my husband at least once a week. That one is directly related to your #6. Sad that I have to remind myself, but I'm telling you, the days can get away from you.
That is evidence of why being a stay at home parent is so difficult. And to top it off you have to hit the porn circuit at night. You are a trooper.
That's a great list!! I am all those things. You can add cleaning lady, chauffeur and accountant to the list:-)
Awesome list, and I'm sooo right there with you on a LOT of them!
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And people wonder what moms do all day?!
I think you get extra credit for doing all of these and having triplets thrown into the mix! Bonus points!! And, give this lady a raise!
Porn Star eh? You crack me up.
That was sooo true, I think we all have those roles!!
Stopping by from SITS...
I love how you categorized each "role". I really do think you are superwoman. :)
When you break it all down like that, it's rather frightening how much you have to do! My favorite is how momma kisses make it all better!
oh the many hats the moms wear!!!
Great list! - and how freaking TRUE!
Love the Porn Star one. Gonna have to make that a title I wear too.
I desperately wanted to join you as a Porn Star, but everyone who heard of it laughed so hard that I had to settle for Healer to fix all the broken bones from their crashes as they fell out of their chairs laughing. Darn!
Ha - LOVE "Media Specialist" - so true, my dear, so true.
And porn star? Meeeeooow!
Ah, yes. The referee one wears. me. out.
hilarious - I did a post about this last year - included the salaries!!
You are a SUPER Mom!
Great list and so on the mark.
Don't forget "translator". Our toddlers could not communicate with the outside world without our linguistic astuteness.
("Yes, sorry, I'm afraid my kid actually said 'You got me monologuing, you sly dog!' but he really meant to say 'hello, pleased to meet you'.")
porn star.... tee hee....
great list! We do wear a lot of hats as moms, don't we? Gosh, and then the ones we wear at work...whew! I called a friend the other day and went to leave her a voice mail and I was like "Hey! This is...uh....me...you know? Me? Oh yeah, its Barb!" duh! I forgot my name for second! When she called back, she said its probably b/c some people call me Mama and then I have a different name to my students, and then to friends, etc..haha!
I'm with you on all of those, but you forgot Housekeeper and Chauffeur, both very important!
Now if only we could get paid the salaries of all those jobs...
Love the list! You had some on there that I can't do ... like seamstress, handyperson and porn star. (Well, I guess I could do porn star but I don't WANT to!)
Those are all good ones! You forgot chauffer!!
Anyone with more than one child MUST be a referee! I did this same prompt. :)
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