Typical SAHM with school aged kids day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH gets children ready for school and daycare and drops them off. I usually am out of bed between 9 and 9:30 pm. Watch a few yours of early morning TV and eat some doughnuts with coffee. Usually order takeaway around 1 pm for lunch. Pick it up or have it delivered. Look at dinner menus from various restaurants and order something from them. DH brings kids home and handles homework, baths and bed. Then have me time to catch up on Netflix.

Farce

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am honestly curious what other people's days are typically like. May be I am trying to get inspired. I am a SAHM, so I am not judging at all! Please don't let this devolve into a war. Thanks for your honest replies.

This topic is like WOHM porn.

Yes, a bit.

[Anonymous]

I drop my kids off, walk my dog, drink coffee, eat breakfast, surf DCUM , then throw in laundry, straighten up kitchen, make beds. Think about what I want to make for dinner. Text friends. Run errands, maybe meet a friend or volunteer for kid's school or check books out at the library. Play with dog, clean up house, shower, get started on dinner (early).

[Anonymous]

Get up around 7:20. Wake kids up, fed, and out the door by 8. I drive them to school, back home by 9. Have light breakfast with DH who is retired. Go to gym together to workout with trainers at 11:00. Take a class usually spinning with DH. Shower. Get dressed.

Have lunch out. Come home. Run errands. Sometimes DH and I go to the movies. Pick up kids. Take them to various activities. Make dinner. Relax. Go to bed.

[Anonymous]

Get up at 6am cook breakfast for everyone and go for a run. I finish my run at 7am when everyone else is just getting up, have a shower, get the kids ready and take them to school. Get back, put in the laundry and clean the house, put in 3-4 hours work (from home), cook various dinners for the evening, pick up the kids, help them with homework and music practice, go for a bike ride (weather depending). Read books and play board games or talk with the kids, get lunches made for the following morning, have dinner with husband (kids dinner is early), go to bed.

[Anonymous]

My kids are in first grade and preschool. On the three mornings a week my youngest goes to school, I drop the kids off at school and then come home and work until pick up time. I do freelance work from home and can set my hours. I pick him up, we play/relax/do things around the house until my oldest comes home on the bus, and then we do homework and make dinner. Husband comes home about 15-20 minutes after the bus comes. Some days I get back to work after the kids go to bed, other days I don't. Before I picked up extra work I used to exercise during preschool and I won't lie, I miss that luxury.

On the days my youngest is home, we do something fun in the morning (go for a hike, play outside, go check out something fun) and do an errand or two like groceries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll let you know in the fall of 2017.

Can not wait!

[Anonymous]

Wow, these aren't lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get up at 6am cook breakfast for everyone and go for a run. I finish my run at 7am when everyone else is just getting up, have a shower, get the kids ready and take them to school. Get back, put in the laundry and clean the house, put in 3-4 hours work (from home), cook various dinners for the evening, pick up the kids, help them with homework and music practice, go for a bike ride (weather depending). Read books and play board games or talk with the kids, get lunches made for the following morning, have dinner with husband (kids dinner is early), go to bed.

If you're working 20 hours a week I'd call that a part time WAHM, not SAHM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these aren't lives.

Begone, troll

[Anonymous]

For starters, this week my kids are only in school 2 1/2 days due to some teacher workdays (my kids are spread across several schools and the teacher workdays do not overlap). It is a rare week when all 3 kids are in school for 5 days. So there is that.

I didn't quit until my kids were in school and I've been busy-enough every since. It has all been the usual things people mention but every time I start to get bored something happens with our family. This fall, it has been caring for my father-in-law, as he nears the end of life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these aren't lives.

Begone, troll

Not a troll. Think it's pathetic that women go to the gym, "do paperwork" (whatever), and get pedicures and call it a day. Hope they have more ami iron for their daughters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these aren't lives.

Begone, troll

Not a troll. Think it's pathetic that women go to the gym, "do paperwork" (whatever), and get pedicures and call it a day. Hope they have more ami iron for their daughters.

I have a husband who travels frequently when not working from home. Our life would be chaos and I would be a resentful mess if I was back at my 60 hour a week career in finance which also included frequent travel. I had a tremendously successful career which I'm happy to talk to my children about. I'm also happy to teach them about being adaptable and that I could make the choice to do what was best for an entire family of people because I loved them. Our house is peaceful and their lives are better because of the choice my husband and I made. You may find that pathetic but I'm quite proud of all of the choices I've made as well as the home life we've created for our kids. Luckily your judgment doesn't affect me in any way. You may not think you are a troll but you certainly aren't the sort of woman I would hope my daughter turns out to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these aren't lives.

Begone, troll

Not a troll. Think it's pathetic that women go to the gym, "do paperwork" (whatever), and get pedicures and call it a day. Hope they have more ami iron for their daughters.

I have a husband who travels frequently when not working from home. Our life would be chaos and I would be a resentful mess if I was back at my 60 hour a week career in finance which also included frequent travel. I had a tremendously successful career which I'm happy to talk to my children about. I'm also happy to teach them about being adaptable and that I could make the choice to do what was best for an entire family of people because I loved them. Our house is peaceful and their lives are better because of the choice my husband and I made. You may find that pathetic but I'm quite proud of all of the choices I've made as well as the home life we've created for our kids. Luckily your judgment doesn't affect me in any way. You may not think you are a troll but you certainly aren't the sort of woman I would hope my daughter turns out to be.

Ditto, my dear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these aren't lives.

Begone, troll

Not a troll. Think it's pathetic that women go to the gym, "do paperwork" (whatever), and get pedicures and call it a day. Hope they have more ami iron for their daughters.

Good thing no one has given this as an example of their day then right? Except for the two obvious troll posts.