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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Funny how in this thread people tell OP to hire a nanny + housekeeper + cook, or multiple staff, yet in another DCUM thread a SAHM is being told her tasks can't possibly be that demanding or valuable to her long hours spouse.[/b]

OP, there is no magic solution.  The options are the same.

Outsource more, which involves hiring and managing more people, but takes some stuff off your plate.  Posters have had good suggestions about hiring a single housekeeper+cook+errand person, supposedly at ~$15k/year for PT work.
Find a way for you BOTH to reduce your  hours (or at least yourself).  Others in law have suggested this is possible.  
Get your husband to pick up even a small amount of slack. Not a complete solution for your situation - but necessary in any case.

Good luck![/quote]

PP here who has a housekeeper + cook + errand person.  I never understand this sentiment either.  Or when people ask what a SAHM with elementary school aged kids does all day.  My housekeeper works 20 hours/week, and she works the whole time she is here.  And I would imagine that a SAHM would also need to do all of the scheduling, planning, kid doctor appointments, etc.  Plus, it seems reasonable that she would have a little break or time to work out sometimes :)

Anyway, i absolutely agree that a SAHM would be valuable to a long hours spouse.  I'm pretty sure that OP wishes she had a wife who subscribed to traditional gender roles!

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