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Are Mothers Worth $125k?
By Wizeress
Given the Holiday of honoring Mothers, I thought it an appropriate time
to share my observations of motherhood by way of my gypsy adventures.
Last summer as part of gypsying around I spent a good portion of it with
one of my closest sets of friends. They are a family of three children,
dog, cat, and occasional small fluffy furry caged pet, and I’m not sure,
do we count the TV, for it does seem to have intimate relationships with
family members and communicating in the
household all the time.
It is a busy household, and as any Mom knows
when you are balancing a teen and toddler with one in between you never
have time for yourself. You are way to busy shuffling kids in different
directions, making sure they have what they need, (for surely you will
be the one paying the price if they don't) and stealing time to take
care of all kinds of other household details.
I had the best of it. I got to cash in on family Sunday breakfasts when
Dad breaks out the electric griddle and flips pancakes for every one, as
Mom rolls her eyes anticipating the sticky spots left in the most
unusual spots from the magical art of kid syrup migration. I got to
enjoy what I fondly call “Duffy noises” which are the family sounds that
range from fighting, laughing, screeching, squealing, banging which is
usually followed by loud crying, to the proverbial most common sound
“Mommm, I neeeeeed you” and mothers favorite desperate cry of
frustration “Can you just…”.
To me all those noises were comforting. Living alone for the last twenty
years, the variety was quite stimulating. Oh, and did I mention that I
had the luxury of closing my door and disappearing into my room if it
moved beyond enjoyable and on to out of control. Mom and Dad didn’t have
that luxury obviously.
I will say that after spending the summer with them I do marvel at what
mothers endure. It is a tough job that offers little gratitude and is
constantly wearing on your internal battery and sanity. God bless you
all, I don’t that I could do it, especially with three. Mothers do
deserve a day devoted to treating them special, for they spend 364 days
serving family, careers, and managing a household. Thank goodness the
culture has begun to shift and Dads are becoming a bigger part and
partnering in these roles.
Did you know that they did a study and accessed that if mothers got paid
for their work it would be about $125k per year? Imagine that. Evidently
organizing, cleaning, processing laundry, party planning, event
scheduling, teaching life skills, meal planning and execution, tutoring,
kissing and treating wounds, problem solving (or should I call it crisis
counseling every time the tear button goes), and chauffering does add
up. There is of course a lot of “over time” factored into that figure.
So would you sign up for $125,000 a year as Mother? Is that really
enough when the guy who books down the big green field with some pigskin
gets millions? And what about the Dads that do their part, can we sign
them up per-diem? Or are we too focused on the skinny actress who spent
5 hours in the dressing room trailer to come out and say a few lines for
the camera and earn a salary of a few million.
We do live in a strange world when it comes to getting paid what your
job is worth. I hope that one by one we each can place value on what
feels right within and over time society will change for the salvation
of this world lies in family and the cultivating mothers do.
My summer with “The Duffy’s” was an enlightening experience. Watching
each member interact each with the other, joining in their family fun
days, and contributing help to lighten mothers load was an awesome
experience. It demonstrated to me how it really does all begin at home.
Home is where the heart is, and I was fortunate to share theirs while I
am in search of a home suited for a gypsy.
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