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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find sitting around while kids nap painfully boring.

They sleep 10 hours a night and 4 hours a day.

If I work 8 hours I only miss 4 hours of their life. I think it’s weird to want to be with your kids every.single.minute.

I think even SAHM’s agree that is why they are so into independent play. So they aren’t even with their kids every.single.minute.

I don’t clean.

I love to cook though.

I don’t want to be sick of my kids. I treasure all my time with them. I’m the crazy mom that will do the “carpool” but not ask you to drive. I love getting home from work and doing play dates. I love the zoo at 5pm-8pm.

My H feels the same way. [/quote]

You wouldn't be "bored" for the four hours a day they were sleeping if you stayed home with them.  You'd be grateful for the four hours of rest, peace and quiet.  You have no idea what you're talking about.  [/quote]

+1. I cook, plan our social calendar and the kids’ activities, order stuff for the house etc. when they sleep/go to school. I occasionally work out. I am never bored! I think it takes a boring person to be bored, but to each their own. [/quote]

Its really ok to admit if you are bored some times. I WOHM and have plenty of time at work where I'm bored during conference call, etc.  Also, I also do all those things you mentioned, I WOHM, that's called being a parent, regardless of pay status outside the house. [/quote]

That’s because sometimes jobs are boring.

Frankly, I get bored sometimes during the summer when my kids are with me all day, and I was bored sometimes when they were little and I was watching them paint water on the sidewalk and watching it dry.

I’m not bored when I’m at home on my own doing whatever I want to do, though.  Why would anyone assume that the time I’m alone without my kids is the boring part of my day?  Maybe it’s a fantasy about your own importance in the life of your mother?

Oh yes.  I’m so bored painting and exercising and engaging in my own life and hobbies.  But life really picks up at 3pm when I get to wait in the school pick up line and take Larla to soccer practice!  [/quote]

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