Pretend SAHM

My two weeks of play SAHM feel like a super distant memory by now (it was only a week and a half ago). The thought of returning to work was hard, but once I was back at work I fell back into the same work routine. I guess it helps that most of the people on my team are moms with small children. Most of the water cooler talk, which can draw out to being 1 hour long as passing by moms continue to aggregate, revolves around children.

So what's my verdict?
My house was cleaner, my chores done more promptly (like handwashing some dishes in the sink as they get dirty). In other words, things I late at night before going to bed, I got to do during the day.

But I didn't get any special projects done (ie personal projects that are no longer even on the back burner but have fallen off the stove).

I didn't miss work. I even didn't check my email the second week I was home. The initial email withdrawal was hard as I went cold Turkey. But then I couldn't have cared less about work.....

The pace to the day was really nice. Obviously spending all that time with Ivan was priceless.

The ideal situation would be if I could work part time, like 3-4 days a week.

The scenario would also be nice if I could make work (earn money) from some of my "fallen of the stove" projects...(write my books and scripts, photography,.....)
I guess the idea of working at my own pace for myself really appeals to me. If I weren't a big chicken at even a thought of leaving my corporate golden chains, maybe I'd consider it....

One thing I didn't get it is all the brouhaha that being a mom is hard and frazzling and that being a stay at home mom is particularly hard. Magazines always seem to give advice to SAHM for making their live less hectic. I didn't get what was so hectic about being a SAHM. Being a working mom is much more taxing.