Posted on 01/01/2009 1:05:40 PM PST by CE2949BB
She sews, cooks, knits, gardens and raises chooks. The housewife is back – with younger women embracing traditional domestic crafts in droves, new figures show.
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First, when my kids were babies, I never had time to go to Starbucks. Starbucks is the luxury I have only had the past few year (my kids are 12 & 14).
Let me tell you about my typical day, and my kids are older.
On school days, get up at 6:30am to make sure everyone is up and getting ready.
Every other morning, I have to take my son to school at 7am. Lately, he’s been in a carpool, so I don’t have to do that.
My daughters leave for school at 8am unless they have choir, and then it’s 7:20.
I have to drive everyone because we live in California, and they are all in private schools.
I usually get home around 9am
I then take my shower, and actually get to relax. Then I am doing lots of laundry, cleaning, filling out paper work, going to the grocery store, going to doctors, getting my hair done, etc. I also have to eat my lunch. One day a week I like to have lunch with my husband. I don’t get much done on those days.
Two days a week, I take my daughter to speech therapy starting at 11:30 am. It’s only an hour, but it takes me about 2 1/2 - 3 hours with all the driving. I don’t have time to come home after that.
Now my day starts to get interesting. At 2pm, I go pick up my son and then my daughters are done at 3. We get home around 3:30pm. Now, if they have after school activities, then I have to pick up kids from those activities.
In addition, one of my daughters has trouble with school, so I usually have to spend about 1-2 hours helping her with homework. I have to cook dinner, and then clean up the kitchen. My husband usually gets home at 8pm, so I don’t have any help in the evenings. Just me, and I’m exhausted by 9pm.
Now all of this changes when anyone gets sick, and with 3 kids especially in the winter, it seems like someone is constantly sick. One of my daughters has asthma, so it takes her a long time to get over colds. I’m constantly having to pick someone up from school because they don’t feel well. Then there are doctor’s appointments, orthodontists appointments, dentists appintments, hair appointments for all 3 kids.
Summer is much easier, but that’s when I actually get to have fun with my kids.
This is much fuller than any day I ever had working as a software engineer.
The thing is that now is the slow period of my time with kids. When I had 3 under 3, I was literally constantly feeding kids and changing diapers and doing laundry. It seemed like I hardly ever left the house because there was too much to do. It wasn’t until the twins were around 3, that I actually started taking them to parks and things. Until all 3 of my kids were in school, I never got a break during the day.
I figure at this point in my life I could get some part time job. My husband doesn’t think it’s worth it. We both want me to be home when the kids are done with school. Even if I’m not as busy as I used to be, just the fact that I am home is good. It keeps the kids out of trouble.
Oh, my goodness. That is so TRUE! LOL
“I’ve never done that for my husband. He’s lucky if there is a cold beer in the refrigerator.”
It appears your husband has lost the art of wife spanking ;-)
Viva la difference!
My sister-in-law is the protype. She cooks, bakes, sews and raised three great kids.
My other sister-in-law is the anti prototype and has ONE super brat who is headed for big trouble.
The old paradigm has worked for centuries politics aside.
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