Let's see how I've been inconvenienced

I think there is an urban myth about stay-at-home moms.  

The myth is that if you are a stay-at-home mom you not only welcome inconvenience, you actually LOVE IT,  because it is "your job." 

Like doctor visits.

Taking your kids to every single solitary....

well doctor visit 

AND

sick doctor visit 

AND

dental cleaning 

AND

orthodontist consults 

AND

tooth pulling visits

AND

 physical therapy visits (every week for 10 months) 

AND

occupational therapy visits (every week for going on 3 years) 

AND

counseling/psychiatrist visits

AND

 allergy testing visit and checkups

AND 

allergy injection visits (at minimum every other week)

AND

ENT appointments

AND

ear plug-making / hearing test visits to the audiologist

are NOT AT ALL FREAKING INCONVENIENT, especially when you have 3 children and have been doing it for 12 years.    

And this is if you have overall healthy kids.  I think about the moms I know who have really and truly sick kids or kids with special needs of some kind.  

Add in your own mom health- and dental-care and you feel like you are a hamster on the health care wheel of life. 

Another part of this myth is that, as a woman who chose stay-at-home motherhood, you aren't inconvenienced by the fact that you....

No longer have the same job you had 12 years ago

AND

no longer have the same friend network you had 12 years ago

AND

no longer have the same schedule you had 12 years ago (or 8 years ago or 6 years ago or even 1 year ago because as a stay-at-home mom, every second of your life is changed by the changes in your kids' lives.)

AND

no longer have the same skillset you had 12 years ago.

What is maddening to me is that all of this is just considered part of "the job" with little acknowledgment of how much of a royal inconvenient pain in the butt it is to have to do it or live it.

It's your job, baby, so you figure it out.