and one hard adjustment is that people don’t take you seriously anymore. I work harder and longer now, yet many people treat you like you’re not doing anything, try to push difficult and time-consuming tasks off on you, perpetually question why you’re not accomplishing x, y, or z ... I don’t know any other moms who stay home, and my friends act so perplexed about why I can’t just pursue other jobs and hobbies “during naptime” (when I do the laundry and start dinner, if I’m lucky). It’s nice to think that someone somewhere out there is able to see some value in what I do.