I have two kids and work full time. I wake at 5:30 every morning, make and pack lunches, make breakfast, make the beds, tidy up, do about twenty minutes of light exercise, get everyone dressed, backpacks packed up and drive my two kids to school by 8:15. Then it's off to work, walk three miles at lunch, secretly text school to make sure kids are still OK if they had a field trip or I was worried about a special project, work through the afternoon, rush through traffic to pick kids up from aftercare at 6pm. Then it's swimming lessons at the Y or the park for some exercise, dinner, homework, baths, story time, bed (at 10pm for kids)....repeat. There is no day off. If I'm sick I still need to do everything for the kids. If they are sick I use a pto day. And YAY! my work just took away half of the pto days I earn each year cause y'know the economy. Ironically, that's the same reason the cost of aftercare has gone up. I have no relatives to help (They live far away and refuse to visit.)
Every once in a while I get a month off of work where I will pretend to be a stay at home mom picking my kids up early and getting the evening stuff done early. Y'know, dinner at a reasonable hour, bed before 10pm. That's a vacation for me and my family.
Not as glamorous as the celebrity mom experience is it?
My kids really want a pet. I think it'd be too much. What do you all think?
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