Pink Think: “My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff – like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I’m very grateful for… I thank him for it regularly.” – Erika Slezak, American actress
I am a stay-at-home mom.
Yesterday, this was my schedule:
10:30 Turn-out the horses
10:45 Drive 45 minutes to deliver cookies for daughter’s entry to State Fair
11:30 Stand in line while smelling wonderful aroma of bread and getting hungry
12:00 Eat lunch in car; drive back
12:50 Take horses back to their stalls
1:00 Piano lesson
1:45 Be home for two younger kids
2:15 Send son to cub scouts
2:20 Pick up daughter from junior high
3:15 Take son to soccer practice
4:15 Go to cub scouts (I am a wolf den leader)
5:40 Call cub’s mom to see if she is picking up her son
5:45 Call oldest daughter to make sure kids are eating dinner
5:50 Arrive home in panic because youngest is not dressed for soccer yet, but fed, thankfully; thank oldest daughter profusely for her help
6:00 Take oldest to Young Women’s and youngest to soccer game
Stay-at-home indeed.
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My husband drove straight to the soccer game from work. I told him I took the cookies in for Sierra. “Gosh, it was a busy day,” I said, collapsing in the camp chair.
And my sweet darling husband, whose hard work makes it possible for me to be a stay-at-home mom, said, “Oh? Other than delivering the cookies, what else did you do?”
I had to laugh.
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What a fun blog you have. I thoroughly enjoy your style of writing. 🙂
Hubby’s at work, one daughter’s at seminary, the other daughters have been asleep, and I’ve been having fun just sitting here reading your blog!
I’ll have to read more posts later, and will be putting your blog in my favorites. 🙂
Amen! It’s crazy that people think if you’re a stay at home mom that you don’t work…and that you actually get to stay at home! I did it until a few years ago and wouldn’t change it for the world. Home raising you kids is the best place to be.
Thanks for the comment. I took the photo for that header on Diamond Mountain.
You are so blessed to be a “stay at home” mom. I so get what you’re saying!
Enjoyed peeking at your blog!
Tammy: Glad you enjoy the posts. And thanks for adding me.
Barb: Wow, YOU took the photo? Good job. That’s great you got to stay home, too.
Kim: Yes, it’s been a blessing (for both me and the family).
It drives me absolutely batty when my husband walks in at the end of his day and asks “So, what did you do all day?” GRRRRR
If he only KNEW!
Wow, that sounds like a lot more I could handle in a day. My wife and I both work outside the home, but she is telling me I can quit if I wish and write full-time.
It’s a little scary but she believes in me and fortunately, we’d be okay for a while if I did take that leap.
Pink, you forgot to add that you still have to try to find time to WRITE, too!
What a day! Loved your description of it.
I noticed two-point-five minutes unaccounted for. Most likely this means you need more children.
To help you make more productive use of all this excess free time.
Great point — I’m a BAHM, Busy at home mom! You sound like one too (I work 20 hours a week pt and have a home business too). Thanks for stopping by my blog — I’ll be back to yours!
Wendy: I can just picture the scene :-).
Prince: I left out writing, didn’t? I usually write earlier in the day, before bedlam breaks loose.
What a wonderful wife! You are lucky.
But you know, speaking from personal experience, having “free” time to write during the day is not all that it’s cut up to be. I find myself frittering it away on non-writing things. In some ways, I function best when I only have a couple of hours of intense writing time, and then have a life outside of that. Then again, if you have the discipline for it, writing full-time is so much easier then writing on the brain power and energy left from working full-time!
Ann: Thanks!
BPV: 2.5 minutes? Mmm. I could have been flossing then. 🙂
Susie: BAHM…that’s a fitting name. Feels like it some days, too :-). Thanks for the visit.
I hope not every one of your days is like that. Unless you’re already insane, in which case it can’t get much worse, can it? 🙂
The “what did you do today” question always kills me. It’s so great to see a time line of what gobbles up all the time.
Q: Fortunately, it’s mostly my Wednesdays that are crazy like that. And yes, it can’t get much worse :-).
Kristi: Thanks for stopping by. I normally don’t do a sked (when I do, it’s all on post-it notes which I promptly lose), but I literally lifted most of that schedule from a page on my planner.
Awwww! So cute! Have fun have fun! I love how you think of pink! Me too! Me too!
I wanna read more!
Celeste