SAHM with school age children, what do you do with days?

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I'm about to go from FT work to SAHM full time. My children are at school. I'm curious x

What do you do with your* days, obviously.

Housework, long walk evert day. Just started voluntary work for 1hour per day

I have been to 17 appointments for them this term,

shopping, (including driving to further supermarkets to get the specific type of food one will eat. putting shopping away.

school run. (get back at the earliest at 9.30 due to traffic and spend 1.5 hours in the afternoon fetching them fromtwo schools)

housework,

eat

sleep (managing my own condition)

library visit to sort out their books.

Get all the housework, shopping, admin, cooking etc out of the way so that I can enjoy my DC’s company and support their schoolwork and extra curricular activities when they are at home.

Pretty much what Maria says. DH works FT, I've been a SAHM for a dozen years.

I met someone recently who demanded (yes, demanded) to know what on earth I do all day!!! Surely I'm bored? Well no, I don't have time to be bored. Because DH works (often away all week), my "job" is our home and DC. I do all the gardening, house maintenance (not very good but I am keen), housework, shopping, ironing, everything DC related.

There will be plenty of people that assume that you will have endless coffees, be a "lady who lunches", that sort of thing. The reality, once you get into a routine, is that no two days are ever the same because there's always something that needs doing.

I do have hobbies but rarely get time to enjoy them. However doing everything during the week does mean that my DH doesn't have to help with many jobs during the weekend and we get family time. It works for us.

I spend a few hours a week volunteering but apart from that I do all the boring household stuff and school runs. The days are quite short really once you factor in the time taken for the school runs.

I do find the time for a coffee with a friend or the occasional lunch with dh, but I'm definitely not sitting around doing nothing all day. I'm mumsneting whilst wrapping Xmas presents this morning!