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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay op - tell us, how do you fill your days? (plus what is your highest educational degree level, if at all?)[/quote]
Not OP, but this was my day today:

I’m a SAHM with a SAC

Got DD to the bus at 8:30. Came home, made beds and tidied up, and then went for a run. Got back, showered, sat down to have coffee and breakfast and catch up on some news and check emails, etc.

Turned on a podcast and cleaned the bathrooms. Put away some laundry. After that, I drove to pick up something I bought on a mom2mom site, went to the post office to throw some cards in the mail, then went to Costco.

Came home, put away the things from Costco, and then ate lunch. After lunch, I went outside and cleaned up some yard debris for garbage day tomorrow. I came inside, put on another podcast and prepped a casserole for dinner. I then cleaned the kitchen.

Next, I sat down to watch a 30min episode of a Netflix show, and then left for school pickup at 3:45.

I have a BA and I’m happier at home than I ever was at work. I’m never bored. I find ways to fill my day. Sometimes with mundane tasks, always with exercise, and always with either a book or some other literature, or interesting podcast.[/quote]
 I am beginning to understand why 30 years of this would make someone has unintelligent as my MIL. You are just taking up space. [/quote]

When I asked the OP how she filled her day I did not hope for this kind of [b]mundane minutae. I think I am just going to have to kill myself now, so bored[/b].[/quote]

Exactly how I felt while on the 9-5 treadmill.  Couldn't wait to end that misery and be at home with my children.  Yes, there are some "boring" days while at home, but I'd much rather have a few of those[b] with [/b]my kids, than be bored at work, [b]without[/b] my kids.  Different strokes and all that.    :roll: [/quote]

But unless you keep having babies, at some point kids are gone 30+ hours each week. What will you do with your time then?[/quote]

Well, I imagine I'll be involved with other interests and volunteering.   Or perhaps I'll head back to work at that point.  Why do you assume SAH is a lifetime decision?

The larger question is, of course,  why do you care so much about what other women do with their time?  I certainly don't care about or concern myself with  *your* choices. [/quote]

I was hoping you had a plan for your life when you started SAH.  And you're certainly not going to go back to a career after being at home for 15+ years.[/quote]

Maybe you can mentor her or someone like her when she goes back to working full time. Isn't that what we should do as women, support each other's choices? It's okay to like what you do, and no one choice is more valid than another. Stop resenting other women. We are individuals. And let's reject ALL of the patriarchal molds, from mandatory housewife to corporate power-drone. Balance is everything in a happy life and healthy society.[/quote]

+100
But please, don't let someone like her mentor anyone.  Sounds like she's the one who could use the mentoring.  Or therapy?[/quote]

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