SAHMs

Athena0809 · May 2012

What is your daily routine? Although our day has some sort of structure it's not a down packed schedule. What are your plans? Do plan on being a sahm indefinitely or are you going back to work eventually? I guess I've just been questioning my situation, I love DS to pieces and LOVE being home for him but some days I feel that I just need a break . I may go back to school this fall or I may go back to work part time...am I the only one feeling uncertain about her future?

kacelle · May 2012

I guess I'm a SAHM until I start my job later this month. I actually plan to work full-time for a few years and then SAH and homeschool. At this point in life, I think I'd make a terrible SAHM. I do well in a workplace environment and DD's schedule just isn't as structured as I'd like it to be at this point.

DH will be a SAHD this summer. Obviously the schedule isn't nailed down yet, but he's planning to take swim lessons, go to the local kiddie park and our community pool, go hiking at the state park, go to the library for storytime, visit the zoo, etc. There are a lot of things available to stay-at-home-parents during the summer!

Tinybride08 · May 2012

7:00 am-7:30 - Layla wakes up. I then wake up older DD. She gets ready and we drop her off at school. Diaper change, occaisonally make lunch for DH

8:00-9 am am - Breakfast for me and baby. I may get online and blog/bump etc for a little while.

9:00-10:00 am - I bathe Layla and rock her to sleep.

9:30-11:30 - Layla naps and I shower, get ready for the day and pick up around the house.

12:00 - Lunch for both of us.

12:30- 3:00 - Playtime with Layla in the living room. Or I might watch some TV too while she plays. I'm also washing clothes or picking up.

3:20- Pick up DD from school. Sometimes we walk in her stroller there.

4:00- Layla takes a bottle and then a nap.

4:30- I start dinner, help older DD with her homework.

5:30- We eat dinner, older DD minds Layla while I clean up. We may go for a walk after.

7:00- DH gets home.

This is a typical day if we are just at home all day, but Tuesdays we have ballet for older DD and Wednesday's is baby story time at the library. We also occaisonally will meet up a friend for lunch. The summer will be a whole different ball game though. I plan on keeping the girls busy.

I think in my situation it's helpful that I have my 9 year old that helps out. I don't plan on going back to work anytime soon. Maybe part time when the youngest is in school. Hopefully by then though, I'll be working for myself.

toadstool · May 2012

I am going to work PT in about a month, but I have been SAH since DD was born. Here is our current schedule:

6:00am- DD wakes. I pump, DH changes and feeds DD.

6:30-8:30- Make breakfast, eat, get ready for the day/work while DD plays and interacts with us.

8:30- 9:30ish- nap time. I pump and do a little cleaning or finish getting ready for the day.

9:30ish-1:30ish- We go out to an activity(library time, the zoo, mall, grocery store, etc.) and do lunch. Usually there is also at least an hour of DD playing in her playroom while I sit in the room and fold laundry.

1:30ish-3:00ish- Nap time. Again, I pump and do a little cleaning.

3:00ish-7:00- Play in DD's play room, make dinner, eat, sometimes we will get out as a family when DH comes home(go to the store, grab a starbucks, etc.)

7:00-Bedtime, we put DD down and read her a story, then I pump. After that, the night is ours. We usually do a little cleaning up and then do something we enjoy until it is time for us to turn in for the night.

Temp38995750004016 · May 2012

I hope to SAH forever! We don't have a strict schedule, but I try to have us at home during her naptimes. Our outings are usually in the afternoon.

I try to get up & around before she does, which is usually 8-8:30. We have breakfast, get her dressed then play a little, read a book and she's ready for a nap. She naps for a couple of hours while I shower & dress if I didn't get up early enough then do some housework, emails, phone calls, etc.

Afternoon we either play at the park, playdate or do some kind of outings, she naps around 3-4 then is awake until DH gets home at 6:30. I usually start on dinner prepe and play with her some, do actual cooking when DH is here.

Right now our outings are usually park, walk to the grocery, target, etc. In June she starts Gymboree music class and swim lessons. In August she will go to nursery school one day a week (9 - 3:30) & I'm wondering how that will impact her naps.

kerrbear72 · May 2012

I think what you're feeling is completely normal. Being a SAHM is no joke and I often tell people that sometimes it would be easier to go to work than SAH.

I think that whenever I feel like going back to work its because I just need a little break and I associate working with time away, kwim? Its not because I actually want to leave DS.

carishabob · May 2012

kerrbear72:

I think what you're feeling is completely normal. Being a SAHM is no joke and I often tell people that sometimes it would be easier to go to work than SAH.

I think that whenever I feel like going back to work its because I just need a little break and I associate working with time away, kwim? Its not because I actually want to leave DS.

I really couldn't have said it any better. We have no schedule here, as far as plans outside of the house, and I need to work on that. Interaction with others is key for both of us!

Athena0809 · May 2012

carishabob:
kerrbear72:

I think what you're feeling is completely normal. Being a SAHM is no joke and I often tell people that sometimes it would be easier to go to work than SAH.

I think that whenever I feel like going back to work its because I just need a little break and I associate working with time away, kwim? Its not because I actually want to leave DS.

I really couldn't have said it any better. We have no schedule here, as far as plans outside of the house, and I need to work on that. Interaction with others is key for both of us!

Luckily I hit it off with another SAHM I met at story time and now that the weather is nice I hope to schedule lots of playdates! And btw, you are in my area too, PM me if you even want to do something!

kelly321 · May 2012

Right now DH is a SAHD while I work on my dissertation PT in the other room, so we're both kind of SAH. But I do plan on being a PTWAHM / PTSAHM at least until our kids are all in school and probably beyond since what I'm now thinking career-wise could be done largely from home. DH will return to work FT this fall - he's just on paternity leave right now.

klovesp95 · May 2012

I can totally relate. I became a SAHM when DD was born after being a teacher for 10 years. I am so grateful/happy/excited that I can be home with her but it can be overwhelming and challenging at times...especially having just moved over 500 miles away from home to an unfamiliar city with no family/friends. It has been a big adjustment...especially since DH is away often for work. I just try to take it day by day and figure out my new normal. I imagine that when DD (and any future LOs I may have) goes to school I will go back to work in some capacity. I hope to be able to SAH at least that long. But, interacting with others, socializing, and having some activities --be in playdates, a part-time job, or going back to school-are important to your sanity and well-being.

Our daily routine is basically this: Wake at 7, nurse, play until breakfast. Nap 2 hours after wake-up. I use this time to get stuff done around house, laundry etc. DD wakes around 10:45/11 and she nurses. We play/take a walk until lunch around noon. Then we run errands or go to the gym. She had been taking her second nap 3 hours after waking from Nap #1 but lately this has been hit or miss. It makes for a VERY long afternoon when she is up from 11 until bedtime! Then we usually spend our afternoon playing at home, prepping dinner etc. She'll nurse once more before dinner which is around 5/5:30 then it's bath, stories, nurse, bed. When she doesn't get that pm nap, she's out by 6:30, regularly bedtime is 7ish.

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