When I look at all the tasks I stuff into a week, I'm amazed at how much I do. Here's what my typical week looks like lately:
- Grocery shop
- Prepare meals
- Clean kitchen and dining room after meals
- Wash, dry, hang/fold 7 or 8 loads of clothes
- Select kid's outfits daily
- Iron kid's outfits daily
- Drop off and pick up dry cleaning
- Pay bills online
- Log and track expenditures
- Run errands (return/renew library books, take donations to goodwill, mail letters, pick up enrollment forms from daycare, drop off required medical forms at pediatrician's office)
- Send in snack for kids
- Sign kids up for activities (soccer, after-school class, basketball, swimming)
- Find and enroll kids in summer camp
- Drop kids off at school or bus stop
- Pick kids up from after-school program
- Check homework
- Mediate household spats
- Prepare kids for bed
- Style daughter's hair
- Schedule appointments (doctor, dentist, teacher meetings)
- Excercise (attend class or play basketball 2 times a week)
- Visit the salon (every other week)
- Add numerous family/personal activities to my Blackberry
- Plan family outings (ie, trip to NC, Cherry Blossoms)
- Call friends and family
- Respond to and send personal emails
Not to mention, working 40-50 hours a week!
And responding to all the 'mom cries' on any given day, which could easily exceed 30 a day with 3 children.
So, surely a women's work is never done. What's your typical week like?