i'm seeing all these serious questions and concerns which is great, but i got to ask. do you get enough intimacy with your spouse? or alone time with your children? if you could make a wish what would it be (not a million)? do you get enough "me" time or "girl" time? what do you do when you get quiet time? is your house chaos and love it? i know mine is and i love it :)
make it fun who knows you might give me some ideas to make my home life a little more interesting :)
hmm.... i like the ladies party suggestion as well as the maid. i'm definitely going to hunt around for one. :)
Wow- interesting post.
Let's see... intimacy time with my husband. I work full time and commute an hour each way. By the time we have dinner, play with our son, get things put away and cleaned-up and the baby is asleep it's 9:00. Needless to say, we both are exhausted and usually asleep by 9:30. What we did to make it better... hired a housekeeper who comes twice a week, does the laundry and cooks dinner. She is 100% worth the $125/week because we have our time back!
Time with my son... we make time for him every day. We both work, so he spends the bulk of his "awake time" with a sitter (who is wonderful). We have always had dinner together and then we each get 30 minutes of "alone" time with the little guy while the other one gets that time to ourselves. I do puzzles and read with the monster while my husband reads the paper in the other room and then we spend some time all together. My husband LOVES the just-before-bed time, so they cuddle and watch t.v. while I run on the treadmill. That works for us.
My wish... sell our house and be able to move closer to my family in FL.
As I said above, I get "me time" every night (or would go insane), but don't get much "girl time". I have a good friend who does not have children, but the rest of us do. So... twice a year she hosts a "Mommy's night in" party and it's great! We get dressed up and make our favorite dish, bring our favorite cocktail and the husbands drop us off. We eat good food, play girlie card games and laugh. When the night is over, her husband chauffers us all home!
My husband and I work together so we see each other all day and usually have at least a couple hours alone in the evening after the kids go to bed.
I almost never go anywhere to have my 'girl time' or alone time, but it really doesn't bother me.
One wish would be that we could afford for my husband to be a SAHD.
I home school my children so they are with mommy through out every day. Come the weekend my parents take the kids every Friday night so that I can have some kid free time and alone time with my husband. We work really hard at making time as a couple (trying for number3). The kids get more time with us than we get alone or as a couple,lol. But that is all about being a parent. We work out times to split the kids up so they each get alone time with us. As a wish I would like my house to be cleaner but it is lived in and loved, that makes me happy. It means a lot to have healthy children, loving husband, and a happy home.
My husband and I both work full time and commute an hour to and from work. Our 2 boys stay at home with a sitter during the day. She is wonderful and keeps the house in order during the week so that weekends are for us and not spent cleaning all day.
My husband and I make time for intimacy. We wake up at the same time in the mornings and have that time and also when the kids are asleep, whether it be at night or during nap times. We have a date night about every 3 months. We look forward to that!!!
I don't have near enough time with my children. I wish I could work part time or stay at home. I try to prepare meals ahead of time so I'm not stuck in the kitchen as much. I am starting to let them help me "cook" now that they are getting a little bigger. *sigh*
I combine my "me" time and "girl" time. I go to a Zumba class at my chuch 2 times a week for an hour. My closest friends come to the class too. We work up a MAJOR sweat and have so much fun! It is a great stress reliever and makes me feel good about myself. Reminds me of the club days,lol! I take the kids with me and they get to socialize with other kids their age which they love. Childcare is only $2 per child for the hour.
My wish is that we could sell our house and buy an older, cheaper house that has more room. I would love to be able to cut the expenses and stay at home with my boys before they are grown up.
Thanks for the fun post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a ten month old...I have zero intimacy with my spouse and definitely not enough "me" time! What is quiet time (!)...I do still get to nap when my son takes his morning nap. My house is in chaos and I hate it but I've learned to live with it.
I do get to spend most of my day with my little boy. He will start day care in about a month and I have to go back to work full time. Definitely not looking forward to that.
I would wish my husband worked the same hours as I did, so we could have our evenings and weekends together as a family. I work 7:30-5:30 from home, but he's a restaurant manager and is gone most days and nights. We never have a day off together and he's usually doing chores and errands on his day off, so we don't get a lot of time together as a family.
