this website all day long?
2007-06-04 06:48:18 · 40 answers · asked by lovebeingamommy 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Thanks for all of your very informative answers!
2007-06-04 07:04:50 · update #1
Wow, since "studies have shown that SAHMs actually work equivilent to a 60 hour work week", then that must mean that working moms work equivilent to a 100 hour work week since we work at a job outside the home 40 hours a week, then come home each day and do everything that SAHMs have all day to do (i.e., make meals, wash dishes, clean the house, do laundry, run errands, grocery shopping, helping kids w/ homework, taking care of our kids, running kids to activities and what not, going to PTA meetings, church meeings and groups, yard work ect...) in addition to everything else!. lol... I was a SAHM and now have (regretably) had to join the rat race of working again. And man, do I miss staying at home.... set my own schedule, not be stressed....aaaahhh. lol, anyways, I work but I don't type on here all day, just every now and then after I check my e-mail right before I collapse in bed exauhsted...lol. :)
2007-06-04 15:23:05 · answer #1 · answered by ~*Mrs. GM2*~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about you but I am a very busy mom. Imay stay at home but I also provide child care for other families. My day starts at 5:30 am and it doesn't end until 10. By the time that my husband get home I already have done 2 loads of wash, have dinner ready on the table, clean and stanize all the toys, have the entire house vacummed and mopped, Windex all the windows and cleaned and stanize all 3 bathrooms. Thee only time that I get to go on the computer is during nap time and that is sometimes 15min to type. When all the daycare kids go home it is my time to spend time with my kids and I am so tired that I have no engery to type. I am a very busy person. The next day I get to do IT ALL AGAIN. This is my 15 min of reconnecting with the world.
2007-06-04 07:00:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow... Is someone a bit jealous? Well, If you are like me... I have 1-2 days a week where I actually can play on here some. These are 'Pappy' days. Days when my father takes my son for the day so that I can get things done or do nothing at all. Walk beside me and most of us in a day and you could not keep up. This is the hardest job I have ever had. Up at 6:00- starting laundry, cleaning out the dishwasher, mopping the hardwood floors (on hands and knees) 3 rooms, changing the laundry out, starting the next load, 7:30-8:00 baby is up.. morning bath, breakfast, playtime, vacuum the bedrooms and living room, fold laundry, change other laundry out... Time for a walk... Come back from a walk, lunch time... Then lunch cleanup, nap time... Total quiet. Put laundry away, start to prepare supper. 2:00 - baby is up, start supper. Take baby outside to play on swing until daddy comes home. 3:30-4:00 Daddy comes home. Prepare supper, than supper clean up, evening walk around track with daddy and baby, then its nightly bath & snack, brush teeth, rock baby to sleep... Grab the last load of laundry from the wash and fold & put away. Take a deep breath, its 10:00pm. Time to grab my mommy magazine and look for a cool treat to make this week, read a little... 6:00 comes pretty early these days... Think you can keep up?
2007-06-04 07:02:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a stay at home mom, but my 6 year old had an asthma attack this morning so we're at home, resting. In a little while I am going to catch up on the laundry I didn't get to this weekend and clean the bathroom. Later my son and I will watch a movie together and eat popcorn with M&Ms in it. It's overcast and off and on rainy today, so it's actually a good day to be home.
2007-06-04 09:03:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking after the toddler- my daughter is quite to content to play right bside me, and I will often leave answers unfinished whilst I take care of her needs, and I am not here ALL day. We go out to playgroups, and when we get home and I log on, she plays with her father who is also here. So don't for a second think that children are being neglected, if that is what you are implying.
We aren't on here all day, we can go and make some dinner, hoover the floors and attend learning courses, wash our dishes, do the laundry and put everything away again...that's what I have done today anyway.
2007-06-04 06:59:47 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Pamela♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Right now I'm waiting for my daughter to wake from her nap. Other than that, I clean almost all day, take care of her (and shes a handful at 2 years old!), make sure my husband has his work clothes washed, make sure my daughter has plenty of clean clothes and playing with her. I rarely get time to relax. In between making sure that everybody else has everything I hardly ever make sure that I have anything. My husband and daughter have whole closets full of clean clothes and I have whole baskets full of dirty clothes because I like to make sure they have their clothes before I do.
This question sounds a bit rude to me. You're implying that stay at home moms are all lazy and do nothing but surf the web all day and that is most definitely not the case. Ive been a working mom and a stay at home mom and I actually think being a stay at home mom is harder. Why dont you try it sometime and then maybe youll think twice about putting stay at home moms down.
2007-06-04 06:59:45 · answer #6 · answered by Amanda 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping for groceries online, paying bills online, driving the kids to and from school/and sports, and getting some sleep since I stay at home during the day and work at night (7 days on and 7 days off). I still have to pick up the older kids after school, wash 2 more loads of laundry, help all of them with homework, pick up husband's suits from the cleaners, and sew badges on for cub scouts uniforms.
2007-06-04 07:16:28 · answer #7 · answered by PharmNerd 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I go to school early in the morning. Come home clean and spend time with the baby. My daughter is only 4 months old so that allows me to get a little me time. Then I start cooking dinner at 4:30- 5:00 to have it on table by 6. We eat and we play with baby togeather. Give her a bath. He reads a book to her and she goes to sleep. Then me and him watch tv talk ect and all the same the next day. I get on her while my daughter is napping. Speaking of she just woke up.
2007-06-04 06:56:56 · answer #8 · answered by Mom to Isobelle 2, & Gavyn 8mths 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have dinner on the stove, currently downloading some homeschooling files, listening to the 5 yr old watching television in one room, also listening to 4 and 2 yr olds playing in another room, listening to 1 yr old going to sleep in other bedroom, thinking about doing the dishes and I have a load of laundry done, thinking about calling to see when my two oldest children are going to be home. Oh and getting some me time in on yahoo.
ETA: and that's just the last half an hour
2007-06-04 07:08:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All day is a bit much, but I will admit that this site is damned addicting.
Today I have done my housecleaning, cooked 3 meals, walked the dog, done 2 loads of laundry, weeded the garden, helped w/homework & bathed the kids, had a singing lesson and a doctor's appointment. I also read for an hour.
Yep that about covers it. Good night!
2007-06-04 06:53:42 · answer #10 · answered by Lyn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋