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[quote=Anonymous]I rarely host at our current place although I loved to host and throw parties and gatherings when I was single and lived in a cute apartment in Arlington.  But, at our current place, the flow is WEIRD and awkward, it's a small townhouse, and people's standards for entertaining have gotten higher as we've gotten older and moved into our 30s so I feel pressure and get really anxious.  Not to mention, but our cash flow is definitely less than it used to be (had to pay out-of-pocket for infertility and adoptions) and I work my fingers to the bone at my crap job to pay for these things, while my friends who are stay-at-home have fun creating these gorgeous hors-d'ourve (sp?) arrangements, etc.  I can barely get myself and DD home at night, feed her dinner, adn get her to bed.  And our weekends are filled with just catching up on the basics:  laundry, buying food, yardwork, etc.  By Sunday night, I am "caught up" just in time to go back to work on 
Monday and let everything sadly fall apart again Mon-Fri, to start all over again cleaning and organizing the next weekened.  This "life flow" is the biggest difference between stay-at-homes and WOHs, I feel.  Weekends = catch-up time if you've been away from home all week.   But when I was growing up (with a SAH mom), our weekends were much more relaxing and not consumed with all the cr@p like laundry, shopping, cleaning, b/c my mom could do that during the week while we were at school and my dad was at work.  So, weekends were for more "value-added" projects (like painting or decorating, that my dad could help my mom with) or social things (going to the pool, my parents going out, etc.).[/quote]

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