DH and I both work full time, busy jobs. Kids are in wraparound care most days and it can be very stressful to juggle everything and manage drop offs and pick ups…often we also have to work in the evenings once kids are asleep. On the flip side we are paid well, have nice holidays and (fingers crossed) never have to worry about money.
weekends we want to spend most of the time with the kids (7 and 5), take them to activities and days out…so basically no housework gets done, except a bit of laundry.
we do have a cleaner which helps but tbh I think barely touched the sides and she can only really do a ‘surface clean’ that lasts a few hours before house is a tip again!
we quite often have to ‘throw money at the problem’. For example if we have misplaced something and don’t have time to look we buy a replacement.
I often daydream that it might be easier and less hectic if I didn’t work, we could maybe live (Albeit much more frugally) on one income, and would have a nice, clean and tidy house (and have time to clear stuff and find missing items) and could pick up kids from school at 3pm rather than 6pm.
YANBU - your life would be better as a SAHP
YABU - grass is always greener….your life is better now