At our house, 90% of the meals are home cooked (can’t say the same for our kid’s families as they seem too busy). They always seem amazed when they come over for diner and we have cooked everything at home.
We do to and get the same funny looks.
I just think this is all so ridiculous. Yes I was born in another time but all my female friends and I worked full time, prepared a hot breakfast for the entire family, packed everyone’s lunch, had a hot dinner on the table by 6:30 p.m. - without having a microwave, made most of their own clothes, cleaned their own home and did the laundry and ironing. On top of that we shuttled kids to bowling, baseball, football, basketball, swim team practice and meets, dance classes, music lessons, supervised homework time, took everyone for doctors and dentists visits and went to PTA and church and Sunday School.
What we didn’t do was watch TV - unless we had hand mending or sock darning to do, go to the gym or yoga or spend evenings out with the girls. But this was just a temporary thing - kids do grow up and leave and then you can have lots of time for other things, like catching up on your sleep.