1) Play dates:
I love play dates. A play date for them means a mommy date for me, and I do love mommy dates.
2) Volunteering:
Before marriage and kids, I volunteered at the public library. It wasn't a glamorous volunteer job, but it was fun and I liked it a lot. Stacks of dusty books ... that's where I belong.
Before marriage and kids, I volunteered at the public library. It wasn't a glamorous volunteer job, but it was fun and I liked it a lot. Stacks of dusty books ... that's where I belong.
3. School:
So being in stacks of dusty books is where I belong, and the best way to get there eventually is to get my Master of Library Science. I've though about it a bunch of times, and if I wasn't working 40-50 hours a week, that would be on my list.
4. Preschool:
So being in stacks of dusty books is where I belong, and the best way to get there eventually is to get my Master of Library Science. I've though about it a bunch of times, and if I wasn't working 40-50 hours a week, that would be on my list.
4. Preschool:
Spencer had his first homework assignment this past weekend. I can tell you for a fact that after the four hours it took to do that one worksheet that I am not cut out for teaching young minds. I will keep working on helping the teachers do their job, but I could not be the principle on the job of fine motor skills. So little ones would still need to be going to daycare or preschool a few days a week.
5. Netflix
Do you know how many shows I could catch up on?
5. Netflix
6. Eating.
Okay, so let's be real here. if I really did not have a job, I would probably be as big as a house, because staying home means I eat. A lot. Monday I was home with Henry while he was recovering from tonsillitis (yes, my one year old had tonsillitis. He's an over achiever) and I made a breakfast casserole for me and Hubby to have at work (4 meals each) and ate one of those pieces. Then I snacked on the chocolate that Spencer brought home from a birthday party over the weekend. Then it was lunchtime, so I had some leftover brussel sprout and bacon pasta. Then I thought about if there was any other candy in the fridge. Then I had a spoon of peanut butter to curb my appetite.
7. Exercise
At least with the lack of work, I could maybe keep up a workout routine that wouldn't take too much time away from my family. I love the feeling I get from working out (although I really don't like exercise) but I worry sometimes that it takes too much time away from my family. Three nights a week I go for a run. For two weeks I also did kick boxing. When I had a hot yoga groupon, I went 12 times in a month. With no job, I could work out without feeling like I was taking time away from my family.
8. Read!
'Nuff said.
9. Knitting
Okay, so let's be real here. if I really did not have a job, I would probably be as big as a house, because staying home means I eat. A lot. Monday I was home with Henry while he was recovering from tonsillitis (yes, my one year old had tonsillitis. He's an over achiever) and I made a breakfast casserole for me and Hubby to have at work (4 meals each) and ate one of those pieces. Then I snacked on the chocolate that Spencer brought home from a birthday party over the weekend. Then it was lunchtime, so I had some leftover brussel sprout and bacon pasta. Then I thought about if there was any other candy in the fridge. Then I had a spoon of peanut butter to curb my appetite.
7. Exercise
At least with the lack of work, I could maybe keep up a workout routine that wouldn't take too much time away from my family. I love the feeling I get from working out (although I really don't like exercise) but I worry sometimes that it takes too much time away from my family. Three nights a week I go for a run. For two weeks I also did kick boxing. When I had a hot yoga groupon, I went 12 times in a month. With no job, I could work out without feeling like I was taking time away from my family.
8. Read!
9. Knitting
I've always wanted to learn, but I don't have the time or the concentration to do so. I think I would learn.
10. And Number 10 is where I come back to reality and remind myself of all my of SAHM friends. If I didn't have a job outside of the house, I would still be cleaning, doing laundry, cooking, rounding up kids, dealing with problems and somehow there would still not be enough time in the day for everything. So really, that's what I'd be doing.
What would you be doing?
(all photos borrowed from around the internets, so thanks internets!)
10. And Number 10 is where I come back to reality and remind myself of all my of SAHM friends. If I didn't have a job outside of the house, I would still be cleaning, doing laundry, cooking, rounding up kids, dealing with problems and somehow there would still not be enough time in the day for everything. So really, that's what I'd be doing.
What would you be doing?
(all photos borrowed from around the internets, so thanks internets!)
3 comments:
I am "retired" due to disability but being sick takes up a lot of time, especially the sleeping/resting part. I think if I was still working I probably would not have become a blogger. Not working freed up my brain to think creatively. Now my blog has become my work!
I agree about being a SAHM still being like work. But I covet it so. Really giggling at #6. I'd be eating lying on the sofa w/the plate on my chest, I'm sure.
Oh, I WISH you could stay home - I'd be on your list of playdates! It seems like some cosmic joke that 6 months after Fuss was born, my 2 closest friends who had both been SAHMs for several years at that point - both went back to work. Seriously?
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