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This is my read.  If I stayed at home, you can bet your last dollar I'd be running all the errands I could during the week, except maybe grocery shopping.  A two-hour nap is plenty of time to do one cleaning chore a day and have some downtime.  [b]I work full-time and have to do all the same household chores and errands as the OP.[/b]  If taking your kid to a gym class exhausts you so much that you can't get anything accomplished during a two-hour nap, then this may not be the lifestyle for you.  Or hire help--get a housecleaner.  Be more flexible in a babysitter's hours--you don't need to be anywhere at a specific time, you just need someone to cover a few hours a few times a week so you can get stuff done.  [/quote]

No.  No, you really don't.  Is your child at home with you all day, playing around the house and making a giant mess?  Are you cooking lunch and snacks and eating off of your dishes for all meals during the day?  It's not the same if you are out of the house working FT.  Your kid is either in a daycare/school situation somewhere else (hence making messes and dirtying dishes and bathrooms elsewhere) or at home with a nanny whose job it is to clean up after the child and take care of those messes.  So, no, you are NOT doing the same errands and chores that a SAHP is.  Sorry, you just aren't.[/quote]

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