Advice

Stay at home mom advice or working mom advice!

I am not a stay at home mom but sometimes I truly consider it. Is it hard to budget? Is it hard to pay your mortgage, did you sell your house to do it?

Our story- The issue is my husband is 100% commission (unsteady income) and I am an occupational therapist assistant (steady income). I am scared to give up my job because OT jobs are scarce in our area. But I am just miserable.

I work 6 days a week. M-F 7-1:30 and then Sundays 8-3:30. It’s nice to get out early M-F but I feel I can never balance it all even with getting out early. Keeping our house tidy, cooking dinner, trying to exercise and stay healthy, cleaning pump parts, washing cloth diapers, laundry, making time for my husband and spending time with my baby, making home for my immediate family let alone extended family, friends, baptisms, birthday parties all with ONE day off. How do you do it?! And we want more children. I just don’t know how to balance it all and I thought maybe being a stay at home mom I could balance it all better, possibly? But then we would have to sell our house and super downsize. Please send me any advice, organization advice, input, encouragement. I will take anything.