Hello SAHM what is your typical day like?
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Anonymous
| Just curious as to what other SAHMs day's look like. |
Anonymous
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i have a 14 month old who is still taking two naps.
between waking and the first nap, we just hang around the house, eat breakfast, and play with stuff he has here. when he gets up, we always try to get out of the house before lunch...this is either a class, a playgroup, a trip to the mall, an errand, or sometimes a trip to the gym. if we don't eat lunch out (maybe twice a week), we eat at home and he goes down for the second nap. when he gets up, weather determines what we do. often we go on a walk or to the park. I'll go to the gym if I haven't already exercised that day and feel up to it. afternoons are the hardest for me. during his nap in the morning, i shower, nap, and get ready. during his second nap, i may catch up on tv i like that my husband does not, read emails, clean a little, and look at DCUM or other internet things. my husband gets home after DC eats and usually helps with bath. after our son is asleep, we eat dinner, watch a little tv and then i clean up and read a book or look at the computer before going to bed. So glamorous. |
Anonymous
| run errands. isn't that what they all do? |
Anonymous
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I have to kids, a 2.5 and a 9-month-old. Typical day:
- 6:00am, wake up to pump milk - 6:30am, brush teeth and go downstairs to pack lunch and get breakfast ready - 7:00am, get infant, change his diaper, and feed him milk - 7:30am, get toddler, put him on the potty - 7:45am, read books for the kids - 8:05am, sit in chair and breakfast for all of us - 8:40am, cleanup from breakfast, put toddler on potty & change his clothes, get him ready for school - 9:30am, feed infant and put him to sleep - 10:15am, clean up mess around the house, pump milk, do laundry, make any administrative phone calls - 11:30am, infant wakes up and has therapy for an hour - 12:45pm, put infant in highchair for lunch - 1:30pm, go for quick 15-20 min walk/stroll - 2:00pm, feed infant milk, read him book, and put baby to sleep - 2:45pm, clean up mess around the house, fold laundry, pump milk, wash bottles/pump parts, and finish any administrative tasks - 3:30pm, feed myself lunch while surfing the web (like right now!), read investment news, and look at my family's investments (I do some day trading!) - 4:00pm, baby wakes up, play w/ him, take him for another walk - 5:00pm, pick up toddler from after-care - 5:30pm, feed baby another milk bottle - 6:00pm, prepare dinner - 6:30pm, on days when husband is not working late, everyone eats dinner together and husband takes care of baby from this point on and I interact with the toddler - 7:45pm, read books, bath kid(s), put kids to sleep - 8:30pm, do dishes, clean up around the house - 9:30pm, very tired by this time but will stay up to read up on more investment news, read newspaper, pay bills - 11:00pm, pump milk again! - 11:30pm, pass out from exhaustion I just recently took a sabbatical to stay at home with a baby that had some health issue and requires much therapy. Needless to say, staying at home has been very tiring compared to working. |
Anonymous
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"But what do we DO all day?" STFU!
There is PLENTY to do all day. This place does not run without me. |
Anonymous
| Wow...the list is endless. Not sure why anyone with a brain would need to even ask this question. Just like your day at work is probably busy, a day at home is usually full of things to do from chores to playing at the park. |
Anonymous
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DD is 6 mo. Average day:
6am - wake up and nurse 6:30am - mom has breakfast while DD plays 7am - solids for DD 7:45am - read upstairs 8am - nap time for DD. Mom will usually nap for a bit too after cleaning up the kitchen from the night before 10:30am - wake up and nurse 11am - usually some kind of short outting (trip to grocery store, library, store). Then back to play. 12:30pm - nurse 1pm- nap time for DD. Cleaning, dealing with my elderly mom's stuff, some kind of project around the house, prepping dinner for mom 3pm - wake up and nurse 3:30pm - play or outting of some kind 5:00pm - solids for DD 5:30pm - walk (if DH is home by then, he'll come...probably 20% of the time) 6:30pm - nurse and bedtime routine 7:15pm - DD in bed 8:00pm - dinner with DH 11pm - mom to bed |
Anonymous
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6:30am wake up
6:45am breastfeed baby 7:00am baby has oatmeal 7:15-30am mom and dad eat breakfast and play with baby 8am dad goes to work 8-9am mom and baby go for a long walk 9am back home for a bottle 9-10am play on floor with toys 10am maybe take a nap or go on small outing 12noon bottle/jars of food at home and then mom has lunch then play at home until 2 pm or maybe we go on very small outing 2pm-4pm nap--mom may surf the web or fold laundry 4pm bottle/jars of food then play on floor in house till bathtime or most days watch mom in kitchen while I cook/prepare dinner which I may or may not wait for husband 6pm bathtime/dad comes home from work then 6:30pm nurse/bedtime for baby 7pm mom and dad eat dinner ***it is hard to venture out when it has been 90+ degrees outside and the closest activity (Target/mall) is a bit of a drive (35-45minutes) so we end up just staying home. This I would like to change and venture out more but it is hard to make these long car drives with a 8 mo old baby |
Anonymous
| I have teenagers and am not working much anymore (occasional contract work). I must admit my life is completely luxurious. I feel guilty, but not guilty enough to look for a job that would prevent me from being available to drive my kids to and from school and to spend every afternoon and evening with them, taking them to activities and helping them with homework. Fortunately my husband also sees value in that. I do my own housework, but it is not enough to fill all of those school day hours -- so I do some volunteering, and I have taken up some hobbies. I am very lucky! |
Anonymous
Thanks to everyone posting their schedules. I think it's great to see what different people do during their day! Gives me ideas. 
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Anonymous
Jeez, did you even read the opening post? It was obviously from another SAHM wanting to compare notes. |
Anonymous
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I see this ? all the time. It is TOTALLY dependent whether the kids are in school or preschool/younger. Those with elementary and older school kids have 6.5 hours everyday of free time. All the errands in a week could be done in 1 school day---lucky women!
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Anonymous
Easy, tiger, chase the antelope, not the sheep. |
Anonymous
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PP, lol.
I have a four-month-old. I'm looking forward to the day when I have a "typical day." It all depends on her naps. On whether she naps. I don't do a whole lot of errands or housework...as my MIL likes to point out... |
Anonymous
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I have a 13 mo old who still takes two naps. I try my best to get all of my housework and errands (and socializing!) done while he's awake-- it helps that we live in walking distance of a lot of stores-- because when he naps, I have to work on my dissertation!!!!!!!!
Things got a lot harder since he has been getting into everything, though- because whereas he used to play and entertain himself in a confined space, he now tears up the house and leaves big messes for me to deal with.
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