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Not Op. I’m a SAHM who also works 5 hours per week, room parents for my kids, active in PTA, work out, etc.

OP, you don’t mention a housekeeper. We have a large house and I have a housekeeper and do very few chores around the house. My youngest only goes to preschool 2x per week though so I still keep occupied with the little one.

I will be you in 2 years when my youngest starts kindergarten. I struggle with going back to work. [b]Just the past 2 months, we went on 2 vacations, all the kids and I took turns being sick, I planned holiday parties for kids classes, hosted friends and family. I could not have done all that if I was working.[/b]

I couldn’t host play dates on snow days and teacher work days.

I would consider the $15 job though if I thought it was interesting work. We pay our nanny $25 per hour so it seems silly but I would consider it in the future. I’m Ivy League educated and have multiple degrees. I know I can offer a lot. I just don’t want to work full time and we don’t need my income.[/quote]
I work FT, and the only thing on that list I haven't done in the past two months is plan a class party. But I have planned and run a couple of events related to a volunteer activity. My point isn't to say that there is anything wrong with the choice you've made, but if you do want to go back to work you can make it work.[/quote]

I also work full time and have done all the things on that list except I have 3 kids that were all sick (only class parent for two of them but have helped plan class parties, helped with teacher gifts, etc).  One of our vacations was to visit my sister and her husband, who both work full-time demanding jobs and somehow managed to host us (is that really a jewel that "busybusybusy" people put in their martyr crowns now- hosting guests?).  None of that stuff really takes up all that much time.  It is fine if you don't want to work OP but none of these are excuses for not working- working parents do them all the time.  [/quote]

You took 20 PTO days within 2 months?

Pp here. I used to work and got 20 days per year. I took one week off for xmas break, had my parents visit and watch kids other week of winter break. I did take quite a hit for sick days.[/quote]

I am the PP and no, I did not take 20 PTO days in order to take two vacations and cover sick days.  For sick days I used a combo of working from home and back-up care.  For the vacations one was over Christmas so I only used 2 PTO days that week and worked remotely one.  The other was in early November and I used 5 PTO days for that one.  [/quote]

Pp here. We went away 4 times but two of them were weeklong vacations. Others were long weekend to Mexico and NYC. We hosted out of town friends during working days when kids were off from school. I am not trying to compete with someone who works. I’m just saying that we could not do what we do if I worked.

DH probably took 10 PTO plus the holidays he got off. He joined our friends for dinner while I hosted family during the day. We met up with a friend who was visiting family in Maryland. I couldn’t just get up and take a day off to see a family friend we haven’t seen in forever.

When I worked, we would have done one trip and I probably would have put my kids in camp during the teacher work days and breaks. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. I remember putting my kids in spring break tennis camp and some LEGO engineering camp during winter break and they enjoyed it.[/quote]

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