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Stacyc625
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Poll: One thing you have learned about yourself
Stacyc625
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What is one thing that you have learned about yourself since you have started SAH?
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Re: Poll: One thing you have learned about yourself
That I just don't have the patience for this job!
In all seriousness though - I've learned that there's only so much that I can get done in the course of the day and no matter how rotten I feel about not getting something done, there's only one of me...
That I made a big mistake doing everything for my husband before our son was born. I had/have this mentality that I want to make my husbands life as easy as possible so now I feel like I have two other people to think for besides myself.
Also, I have learned that I am a lot stronger physically than I thought. Everyone used to tell me if I didn't body build I would never be able to carry my own child around. If only they could have seen my running around k-mart a few months ago fighting for the last flashlight before the northeast hurricane and then waiting on line for over 30 minutes while holding my son the entire time.
Nor am I a SAHM so I am cheating by answering this.
Messes stress me out. That baffles me as growing up, our house was rarely clean and it didn't really bug me. Mom was just kind of laid back. As for myself? It's not so much the mess, it's that it needs to be organized. I have organized stacks of what I need to address as time allows. Our house is rarely tidy, but it's a nice "lived-in". With that said....
Over time I have just had to come to terms what I now consider "okay" lived-in. Toys throughout the house(and they're being played with)=okay. Clothes, shoes, dishes, mail, projects, etc. scattered about=not okay.
DD#1~8/17/96------DS~10/24/05
This is me too. I never realized how much I snacked at my desk at work/in meetings and went out to eat for lunch and dinner until I was home. I now weigh 25 lbs less than I did pre-pregnancy (and my LO is only 4.5 months old). It's 100% eating food I make at home and not buying crap (I also BF so I'm sure that contributes as well).
I also have a serious lack of motivation. I need to get better about that.
I'm the total opposite. I currently weigh what I weighed when I was 9 months pregnant.
When I was working, all I had to eat during the day was whatever I brought for lunch and the few snacks I kept in my desk. I rarely went out for lunch because I didn't have the time.
At home, I have an entire kitchen and grocery store at my disposal and plenty of time to go out to eat with DD. And I got into the habit of snacking when she snacks. It's a dangerous pitfall of SAHM.