I love being a stay at home mom! It has it's ups and downs but, I would do anything to be with my kids during the day. I am a stay at home mom, but I also have 2 jobs. I am an independent consultant with The Pampered Chef and I work from home doing internet stuff. I kind of stopped doing Pampered Chef...I am still doing it but I do not push it like I used to. I get some orders in from time to time, which is good. With the internet stuff, I make more than I did when I was working part time, taking the kids to daycare! I can stay at home with them and not worry about how they are doing in someone else's care.
Some people think being a stay at home mom is just sitting around watching T.V. all day. Ummm no! I am lucky if I get an hour of T.V. in a day. The day starts with getting the kids' breakfast, brushing their teeth, get baths (1 at a time), get dressed. Tues. and Thurs. Kiki has school, so we have to eat lunch by 11:30 so we can leave by 12:10 to get her to school by 12:30, put the kids in the truck, unpack them to take Kiki inside, pack them back up in the truck, unpack them at home (Aden and Tayg usually nap from 12:45-2:20), leave the house at 2:25 to be at school by 3, put them back in the truck, take them out of the truck to pick up Kiki, put them back in the truck to go home, then take them out of the truck to go inside the house..phew..I think I got it all :)
Mon. and Wed. are our relaxing days! It is the same routing in the morning (eat, brush teeth, baths, dressed), but around 10 a.m we usually go to the Y and go swimming. Then we come home, eat lunch, and Aden and Tayg usually take naps for a couple hours. Keira usually colors or does "homework" around this time. This is when I clean or do my internet stuff.
It can be boring at times, but that's the good thing about being at home, you don't have to worry about a time line. If we get bored, we jump in the truck and go swimming, shopping, or go to the park. The kids get a lot of "social" time. When we go to the Y, I take Aden and Tayg to the child watch and they play with their friends while Keira and I go swimming for 30 minutes then Keira goes in and plays with her friends while Aden and I go swimming. Keira has social interactions with her friends at school, swimming (at school and lessons), and dance. Aden has social interactions at swimming lessons, and child watch (3 times a week for an hour).
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