What Do Stay-at-Home Mothers DO All Day?

Every mother is a working mother.

It’s just that some mothers go out into the world and spend their time and their energy in the workplace, advancing someone else’s goals and dreams.

And some mothers expend that same energy building, creating, laboring for those whom they hold most dear in all the world:  their husbands and children.

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I know that not every family can afford to have one of the adult wage-earners stay at home.  I know that some women have worked hard to build a career, and the prospect of giving up prestige and financial freedom for a different, quieter lifestyle is a weighty decision, indeed.

But for those who are able to make that career change, even for a while, the rewards are prodigious.  Motherhood is the most challenging, the most frustrating, and the most rewarding job of all.

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Buzzfeed has posted a short (2 1/2-minute) vimeo, 3 Queens by Matt Bieler, which captures a day in the lives of three women, in three different parts of the country.  It’ll make you laugh and cry.  Check it out.