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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today my cleaning lady came for the weekly cleaning.  She and her associate, worked along side me for 3 hours, to change sheets, clean the fridge, sweep the garage, water plants and bring them inside, clean the pantry, clean the kitchen and bathrooms and mop the floors.  Obviously this meant that I dusted all rooms.  removed and shook all the rugs, did the laundry, arranged the dressers and closets, swept the floors and vacuumed. I pay them by the hour and I am a SAHM.

I suddenly realized that I have never really  not worked when they have come to clean my house.  It is a 9 man-hour marathon, where they stand-in and do the work that ordinarily my DH and kids would have done.  When I see how hard my DH and my kids work and how much they achieve, I know that I am their logistical support person.

I do not have any existential crisis, because some days goes in helping my children with their studies, some days go in looking after our finances and paperwork (tax, immigration, investments, credentials), some days go in social obligations and some days in school, church, or just relaxing.

We all have 24 hours.  No one is doing more work than the next person.  I obviously am not looking at a computer for as long as a working woman in an office job is, but I am able to do enough work on the computer that works for my family.  The working woman is not doing the amount of domestic work that a household requires, but she is able to do enough to get every one fed, clothed and keep the house running. [/quote]

Many working mom' I know do everything you just listed. It never needs to be this stupid pissing contest, but posts like this make it so. Look, you stay at home because it was best and easiest for your family. So, like, it should be easier. Rest assured that you have it easier than the working moms that have spouses that work crazy shifts who also do all the household work, the homework, the coordinating of it all, and all the paperwork. And that is most of the working moms I know.[/quote]

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