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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Use your imagination people. Things long-term SAHMs I know have done to fill the hours:

-lawyer volunteers at pro bono clinics and is reading every Supreme Court case ever written just for kicks
-one took up old interest in painting and after about 10 years of working at it has a gallery show coming up
-I know three who went to lots of writing classes and seminars and book clubs and writing groups and have published books that they wrote over the course of years
-a handful took Master Gardiner courses and volunteer at public school gardens, National Children's garden, Hillwood, British Embassy, and at least two of them started related businesses and one is starting up a related .org
-another handful took Master Naturalist classes and are volunteering in national parks, stream cleaning, teaching clubs in public schools, and volunteer environmental advocacy
- several turned their after school club volunteering into small businesses
-one learns a language through the year and takes the kids on a long trip to a country to practice the language each summer (she's on her third).
- one who is very religious runs prayer groups and volunteers all over the place
- one took up photography and is pretty darned good, and maybe will make money at if she wants to someday
-a bunch studying tech to try to keep one step ahead of the kids!

and so on. And sometimes they have a 3-hour lunch.
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You have really interesting friends!  I'm a SAHM too but the SAHMs I know aren't nearly as interesting--when I ask how they spend their time while the kids are in school they say grocery, gym, shopping.  I'd love to make some new friends with such interesting hobbies/interests.[/quote]

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