29/04/2025
Being a stay-at-home mom to a toddler means doing everything, all day, every day—and still feeling like you didn’t do enough.
It’s wiping tiny hands, making meals that get thrown on the floor, cleaning the same messes ten times, and navigating meltdowns over the wrong color cup. It’s reading the same book over and over, functioning on reheated coffee, and having zero personal space—not even in the bathroom.
There are no clock-ins, no lunch breaks, no days off.
And most of what we do? It’s invisible.
No one sees the emotional labor, the patience it takes, the constant juggling of everyone’s needs except our own.
It’s easy for the world to take it for granted—because we “don’t work.”
But we do.
We are the glue, the routine, the comfort, the calm in their chaos.
So if you’re a stay-at-home mom deep in the toddler trenches, I see you.
You are doing the hardest, most important job—one that doesn’t come with a paycheck or praise, but is building the foundation of someone’s whole world.
You matter. Your work matters. Even on the days when it feels like no one notices.
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