Have you ever taken care of a house.
Let’s add a few more things: cooking/cleaning the kitchen 3 times a day, grocery shopping, tons of laundry, dusting, filing, clean showers/bathtubs,
If there are older kids, they are at school most of the day, and when they are home they are doing homework. You may be able to count on them to load the dishwasher or take out the trash, but that’s about it.
Also if kids are in school, then you are spending a good portion of the day driving them to/from school and then to after school activities.
What I really love is the juggle of getting dinner done, and helping with homework all at the same time.
I work a lot harder as a mom of 3 kids then I ever did as an engineer for a defense contractor.
My wife works, I take care of the kids after school when I get up. I work nights as an ICU RN 48 to 60 hours a week. I cook dinner 5 nights aweek, plus I’m expected to fix computers, cars, and get the kids to their appointments, ect. My job entails cleaning more “adults’ behinds” then I ever did with my kids...(and helped with my kids’s diapers as well). So yeah, I know what it is like to clean the house and take care of kids...and up to 3-9 adults all night!