Stay-At-Home Moms, what do you do while your children are at school?

Question

I always wanted to know.

Do you watch soap operas?

Talk Shows?

Answer 1

I've yet to have all of my children in school (4 kids, one will be home with me all day this year) so much of my time has been spent caring for the ones not in school yet. I  work out an hour or two daily, shop and prepare food(almost everything around here is made from scratch), clean, do laundry, take care of the yard and garden. I volunteer at each of the kids schools. I hang out with my husband who may or may not be home during the day. I book jobs for my band and do the marketing work required to get people to the shows. I visit the library and park. I also make it a point to write in my gratitude journal as Val up there mentioned(Oprah's right..it IS life changing and it makes you a little less snide). I don't watch soaps because it's mindless brain rot. I might watch Oprah if I'm home and it's an interesting topic. It's usually the only time the TV is on. Daytime TV is pretty pathetic (come to think of it, so is night time too)but I'm fine with that.  I meet friends for lunch. I visit my parents. When the kids get home I monitor homework and then it's time to run to music lessons, dance, theater or sports. Then it's time to feed everyone dinner, clean up, pack lunches for the next day, pick out clothes and give little ones a bath. Then it's time to read to smaller ones and make sure bigger ones are reading and get everyone to bed. After the kids go to bed, I pick up around the house and play piano or get into a book or watch a movie with hubby or talk on the phone with my best friend, shower and get to bed. I've done both the stay at home thing and the working mom thing. I feel that staying at home is a much bigger challenge (for me personally). You really have to stay organized and keep things moving. I love my life and wouldn't change it for the world! :)

Answer 2

Playing with a monkey?!?! Just a wild guessssss...

Answer 3

I think they write in their "Oprah inspired" gratitude journals.........LOL!

"Kayla"...us working mom's do it all too........

Answer 4

Well I am now working and have been for years. I did stay home for a few years and this was my routine.

4:00 A.m. fixed hubby and friends breakfast ( he carpooled)

4:30 a.m. got started on his lunch for the day for he and his friends.

5:00 a.m. treadmill and work out

6:00 breakfast for kids

took the kids to school that needed to go to school

after that I cleaned the house and managed the yard and watched the kids that were home, balanced the check book, pay bills, do laundry, got my daughter down for a nap and I would often take one too while she was sleeping or run and jump in the shower most of the time. She would get up and I would go run the errands and buy the groceries and pick kids up from school , fix them a snack and start dinner and normally do dishes while cooking, help with homework, hubby came home, we would eat dinner, I would clean up after, bathe the kids and finally about 10 or 11 head off to bed.

It is not as easy as you men think.  

Answer 5

We are the people who volunteer at your schools and churches. We take your parents and grandparents shopping, to the doctors and help them in emergencies. We help and drive the field trip kids. And I do it while taking care of my physically and mentally challenged child. We are the parents who are called on when the school needs cookies, cakes, even costumes etc. by 7:15am the next day. We also pick up the children of working parents when the weather changes and they are closing the schools early and take them to my home until you can come and get them, I am the emergency contact. I pick-up and drop your kids off,even when my healthy kid is home sick.  You are all welcome.  

Answer 6

Clean up all the mess the whole family left for me to do, so they wouldn't have to do it themselves.

Since men think we have time to lay around and watch tv, maybe when the husband takes time off from work for his vacation, he should trade places with his wife and find out for himself what it's like to be a stay at home mom.