What do you do?

Question

I’m going to be a SAHM for the next 6ish months. I’m currently 34wks pregnant with my second. My daughter is almost 20mo old. I am so grateful to be able to stay home with her and soon her sister, but What do you other SAHM do all day to keep busy?! I’ve been home with her for a few weeks now and between the anxiety of waiting for this baby to come and sitting in the house all day, I think I may go crazy! Time is dragging! Also trying not to leave the house with how terrible the flu season is already (trying to avoid anyone catching the flu close to when baby #2 arrives). Any suggestions?

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First of all, I never sit in the house all day. We go out & do things every day. Classes, park, library, meetups with other moms & toddlers, plus errands. If we're home, there's all the housework plus playing with my son, reading to him, feeding him/cooking.... If I had twice as many hours every day, I would still not run out of things to do-- there are infinite amounts of ways to stimulate a toddler.

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Come to my house😂. I have enough laundry and cleaning to keep several people busy.   I’m so behind.  I make pretty well all our meals - so I’m cooking a larger dinner meal every other day or so.  Changing diapers, washing diapers (we do cloth at home), putting away clothes, cleaning up the kid mess all over the house, grocery shopping, exercising, cleaning the bathroom is a never ending battle, picking up packages from the post office, driving the older boy to and from school, grooming our dogs, feeding the kids and cleaning up after meals, vacuuming and dusting weekly is my goal, the never ending pile of dishes.  I try and pick 1 larger more long term cleaning/house maintenance things a week too - things like cleaning the windows, cleaning the carpets, dusting the high hard to reach places, in the summer weeding the landscaping, cleaning up the garage, seal the kitchen counter tops, etc - generally things that have to get done a couple times a year to once a year.  I’d love to get out of the house more often but it’s hard to do!  I try and make a to do list for each day/week depending on what needs to get done that week. Right now I have to reorganize the deep freezer to make room for my growing breastmilk freezer stash, order a new car seat, and clean up the last of the Christmas decorations - all of which has been on my list for a couple weeks.  And the new baby announcements, printing off pictures of the new baby for family, and cleaning the entry way floor.  When I have the time, I pick up my cross stitch but it’s been close to 8 months since I’ve been able to do that!

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We go to the library 3 times a week. Grocery shopping is fun to her because we take her cart. Chuck E. Cheese 1-2 times a month. The science center, zoo, aquarium. She does Zumbini on Saturdays and we may start back up swimming. When we’re home I let her help cook, we read, so activities like painting coloring, singing songs. She has toys she likes- play kitchen, drums baby dolls, remote control car, tricycle). I just can’t seem to stay on top of the laundry though😂😩

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I try to keep the house clean and watch Netflix😂

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I honestly don’t stay home... i can’t, I’ll go nuts. And so will my boy lol... He’s 3 and baby is 2 months and we go out to just Walmart or Target if we can. I just go to get him out of the house. We go to the park when it’s not cold so in April-May we will go again. Right now just stores, mall, and I take him to the library.

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