Being a work at home mom or a WAHM is a great job. You can stay at home with your children all day so there are no daycare costs. You can never be late for work. If you want to you can always hang out in your PJ’s all day so long as you still work. You can be an entrepreneur and run your own business where your potential income is unlimited! And you can live in a messy house and worry about getting the laundry done just like every other mother in the world.

Moms are the Chief Executive Officers of the entire house. If a mom works at home or if she goes off to a job outside the home, it seems that her main job is to make sure that the household runs efficiently. Work at home moms have to be even more disciplined since she needs to work and make a living rather than stop and clean up the mess of the house, do the laundry and scrub the toilets. It could just take a minute but she is supposed to be working!

Mom is responsible for most of the cleaning of the house, like the washing of the dishes, the doing of the laundry, the scrubbing of the toilets and as well the bulk of the grocery shopping and meal planning and the mom is the one who attends all of the PTA meetings. Dad’s assist and some dad’s help a lot but for some reason it seems to be more of moms responsibility.

Part of that may be that nearly all women want to have it all. A great career (or business), a clean house, well behaved family and tons of money in the bank. And a lot of time left over to exercise and get in shape, read books and enjoy family time. Can a WAHM have it all?

While you are trying to do everything all by yourself, the truth is that there are only so many hours in a day and something has to give. They say behind every thriving woman is a large pile of dirty laundry and in that regard “they” are correct. It’s tough to get the laundry done when you’re working on bringing home the bacon.

But money notwithstanding and in a ideal world, moms could delegate out the household tasks that they struggle with and of course, one of the first things to hire out would be a housecleaner. There are people who like to clean and they are very good at it. Perhaps Mom’s time is better spent doing something else and the person who loves to clean can stop by and earn a living by cleaning the house.

Then mom can get someone to do the laundry, the yard work, and start getting the groceries delivered. Mom’s time is better spent working on something else!

However even with all of the challenges of working at home while getting the laundry done and keeping the house clean being a WAHM is a great job. Can’t beat it. But the kitchen is still a mess and there is a big pile of dirty clothes on the laundry room floor. Better employ that maid right away!