Just for laughs. I read this from a website (
http://parenting.families.com/blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-sahm) and thought quite amusing for this mom takes it with humor what others seen as a harshly mundane life
SAHMs, any inspiration? Ha Ha
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"So, to lighten it up a bit, I thought maybe we could take a humorous look at what stay at home moms do in any given day. Here is a daily schedule for any given stay at home mom somewhere in America."
6:30 am - Wake up, wipe sleep from eyes. Find bathrobe somewhere on the floor, put it on. Stumble out of bed, stub toe on toy two year old left on the ground.
6:45 am - Make coffee, spill water on the counter.
7:00 am - Wake kids. Return to kitchen, prepare lunches for lunchboxes. Pour cup of coffee, burn hand.
7:15 am - Wake kids again. Brush teeth, wake up husband.
7:20 am - Threaten children with bodily harm if they don't get out of bed. Help kids get dressed.
7:30 am - Get kids breakfast and husband a cup of coffee. Pile dishes in the sink.
7:45 am - Instruct children to brush teeth and hair. See husband sipping coffee and reading paper or watching the news on TV (totally oblivious to chaos erupting around him).
7:50 am - Blot out toothpaste with water from the kid's shirts.
8:00 am - Load up the van, take kids to school.
8:10 am - Arrive at school, wait in drop-off line and hope nobody sees you in your jammies. Drop off kids, narrowly miss hitting child crossing the street.
8:20 am - Arrive home. Husband is showered and dressed and walks out the front door, dripping coffee on the floor as he exits.
8:30 am - Change baby's diaper and get baby's breakfast ready.
8:45 am - While baby is eating, clean up kitchen and load dishes in dishwasher.
8:50 am - Clean up baby's mess, wipe up floor and pick cheerio's out of your hair. 9:00 am - Dress baby.
9:10 am - Make beds and collect laundry.
9:15 am - Find two day old diaper in baby's room under pile of clothes.
9:20 am - Load washing machine.
9:30 am - Play patty cake with baby and watch "Sesame Street".
9:45 am - Zone out watching Big Bird and make lists in your head of things to do.
10:00 am - Change laundry from washer to dryer.
10:15 am - Unload dishwasher.
10:30 am - Prepare baby's snack, nibble on a cracker.
11:00 am - Lay baby down for a nap.
11:15 am - Clean up bathrooms, scrub left over toothpaste from bathroom sink.
11:30 am - Get dressed.
12:00 pm - Check email, see urgent email from last week you forgot to return.
12:30 pm - Wake baby, feed lunch. Eat baby's left over pb&j.
1:00 pm - Change baby, clean up lunch mess.
1:30 pm - Clean up husband's spilt coffee, make cup of coffee for yourself.
2:00 pm - Fold laundry, leave on top of dryer.
2:30 pm - Clean up goldfish crackers baby found and spilled and crushed into rug.
2:45 pm - Leave to pick up kids from school.
2:50 pm - Listen to kids complain about their teachers and friends.
3:00 pm - Pick up husband's dry cleaning.
3:15 pm - Run to grocery store
4:00 pm - Return home, find dry cleaning in a pile on the floor of van that baby must have pulled down.
4:15 pm - Unload groceries, find 2 boxes of sugar cereal you're sure you didn't put in the cart.
4:30 pm - Start homework, look for pencils for 15 minutes.
4:45 pm - Help with homework, racking brain to remember how to add fractions.
5:00 pm - Start dinner. Place pencils in secure location.
5:30 pm - Referee argument between children.
6:00 pm - Greet husband, serve dinner, pile dishes in sink. Listen about husband's stressful day.
6:45 pm - Drop off son at cub scout meeting.
7:00 pm - Return home. Start dinner dishes.
7:30 pm - Bathe baby. Get drenched like a visit to Niagra Falls.
7:50 pm - Read story, sing one lullaby, put baby to bed.
8:00 pm - Pick up son from cub scout meeting, agree to give friend a ride home.
8:30 pm - Arrive home, start nighttime showers.
9:00 pm - Put older children to bed.
9:30 pm - Finish dinner dishes, wipe kitchen counters.
9:45 pm - Sit with husband, lie about how great your day was. Listen to husband complain about how he is the only one who works at his company.
10:15 pm - Announce that you're tired and off to bed.
10:20 pm - Walk past laundry room, take more clothes out of dryer, fold.
10:30 pm - Visit
www.families.com
10:45 pm - Put baby back in her own room.
11:00 pm - Arrive in bedroom, get in bed.
11:30 pm - Dose off.
11:45 pm - Sit straight up and remember that you offered to make cookies for kids school the next day.
11:50 pm - Write note to self reminding self to pick up store bought cookies before school.
12:00 am - Check, then recheck alarm.
12:15 am - Hear husband coming up stairs.
12:18 am - Pretend to be sleeping.
12:30 am - Dose off again.
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