Hello SAHM what is your typical day like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

Part of me feels like it's even more important to stay home with tweens/teens to do just what you do. My mom was a SAHM and my dad own businesses and worked from 8-3 and then would come to every single one of mine or my brother's games, etc. I never appreciated it then, but now that I am a mom I see how much it shaped who I am now and how important that time together was. Anyhow, I can 100% see the value in being SAHM when the kids are older.

I am a teacher and just going back FT in a few weeks. I will be teaching at the same school as my kids (they are 4 and 5) and I feel like this kind of a schedule will also allow me to be there for them in the afternoons, etc. (My fingers are crossed that it will all work out...)

[Anonymous]

Here's my day- have a ten month old and a 2.5 year old.

5-6 am- baby wakes up. Bring her into bed with me, nurse her, pray she snoozes for another half hour to an hour. Sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn't.
6:30- toddler wakes up. bring both kids downstairs. change their diapers. crack a diet coke. chug it.
7:00 Feed kids breakfast. Eat their scraps. Clean up.
7:30 Dress baby. Attempt to dress toddler. Spend 30 minutes arguing with toddler as to why winter fleece pajamas are not a good choice for daytime in august.
8:00- pack everyone into double stroller (including toddler wearing winter fleece pajamas). Take dog for a walk. Still have not brushed my teeth (but did manage to throw a bra and a clean tshirt on).
8:40- Return home holding leash, pushing stroller and carrying toddler in winter pjs because he refused to ride anymore in stroller.
8:45- Change toddler's poopy diaper. Attempt to change outfit. No dice.
9:00- put baby down for nap.
9:05. Play with toddler to include- marching around the backyard with drums; playing hide and seek; playing homemade blues clues, coloring, fingerpainting, playing racecars and choo choo trains.
9:15 Desperately try to come up with another activity for toddler since he loses interest in everything in about 90 seconds.
10:30- Baby's up! Pack diaper bag and lunch. Go out somewhere, anywhere- usually playground, pool, or friend's house for playdate.
11-1:00- outing
1:15- snack
1:30- toddler nap, play with baby
2:00- pl

[Anonymous]

whoops hit send too soon.

2:00- play with baby
2:30/3- baby goes down
3-3:30- Sit down and stare blankly into space.
3:30- toddler up. Play with toddler
4:30- baby up.
5:00 pack up stroller and walk dog.
5:30- 6- make dinner, eat dinner, clean up dinner
630-7 bath
7-8 Dora and Diego
8 pm - bedtime
8:15 - wine o'clock
10 pm- unconcious on the couch.

These are the days when my husband travels (he travels every week from Sun night to Wed night). When he is here, he helps in the morning and the evening, and all day on the weekends. As they say, the weeks fly by but the days last FOREVER! It's not rocket science, but it is hard, hard work.

[aprilmayjune]

Well, my husband works overnights, so the schedule for my 23 month old and I is a little different.. I wake up when my hubby gets home at about 7:30 in the morning, I hang out with him until he goes to bed at about 8, I make breakfast while Annabelle's waking up. She eats breakfast, while I start my husband's laundry and take whatever I'm making for dinner out of the freezer, than, (usually 9:30-10) we either go to the library, playground, grocery store mall or whatever errands I have to do, to get out of the house, than we come home at about 12:30-1 for lunch time for her, while I cook dinner for my husband and I, finish laundry, iron work clothes, and pack his lunch. Than, my husband wakes up at about 2:30 we spend a little while with him, while he gets in the shower I put the baby down for a nap and finish helping him get ready for work, and get the trash ready for him to take out on his way to the car. When he leaves, I spend a little while just on me time, and than I usually wash dinner dishes and clean the kitchen while she's napping, when she wakes up, I heat up leftovers from what hubby had for dinner, and she eats that for her dinner, than we have baths, play for a little bit, than I brush her teeth, get her ready for bed, we read a few books, and watch the goodnight show on sprout. Than by about 9:30 she's in bed, I tackle whatever other laundry and cleaning that I have, and I am usually working on that stuff until about 11 or 12, and than I shower and spend some time winding down until I'm ready for sleep. LOOONG DAYS..

[Anonymous]

18:13 is awesome. i am exhausted just reading her post.

[Anonymous]

What does the dog do all day, other than the walks? Not in a crate I hope!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does the dog do all day, other than the walks? Not in a crate I hope!

What a random thing to resurrect this thread over. Other than take four walks a day and stand under chairs hoping that food is dropped (which it always is), my dog sleeps on the couch for hours and hours. She seems happy to oblige.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

are you exclusively pumping? you sound like me except I get up at 5am and I work full time

[Anonymous]

Homeschooling mom expecting #9:

7AM. Wake, help husband and oldest daughter out the door to work/class while getting little ones breakfast/dressed
8AM. Exercise while kids do morning jobs
9AM. Quick shower and then my morning jobs (kitchen, laundry) while kids start school
10AM-noon. Morning school, more cleaning, business calls/emails
Noon. Lunch
1PM. Baby goes down for nap, afternoon school or hosting clubs
3PM. Oldest walks back from school, baby up, friends over to play, oldest to job, start dinner, kids dressed for martial arts or swimming with a snack, everyone in car, drop off oldest 5, shopping with youngest 3, pick up oldest 5, home for dinner
7pm. Dinner, baths, pajamas, help oldest with homework
8pm. Husband home, prayers and bedtime stories
9pm. Oldest 3 to bed
Between 9-11. Go to bed and make crazy love

Of course, doctor apts, field trips, getting girls to babysitting jobs, etc throw things off, but that's the basics!

[Anonymous]

We get up early in our house too 6:00, how do some of you last past 9:00 pm. I am like a vegetable end of the day. I cant get myself to nap in the day which would help.