Where are my Bon Bons?

OK, so why is it that when people know you're a stay-at-home-mom people think you have so much time on your hands? Why do they think you're eating the proverbial Bon-Bons all day (I don't even know what a Bon-Bon is!), watching soap operas, painting your nails and having 'lunch with the girls'? Even my mother thinks this, and she was a SAHM!

Now, I have kids in school, so that supposedly frees up my day between 9:00 and 3:00 (and working part time seems to not count). However, I find that being bogged down with the massive of amount of mundane activities that it takes to maintain a family and household is overwhelming and a lot of work. There is always more to do, and nothing ever gets completely done. Maybe I'm just not good at it, but I find that I am busier at home then I am at work. At work you can procrastinate, talk on the phone a bit, go to the bathroom, extend your lunch hour a few minutes. Especially when you're home with a baby, you can't even get time to shower.

I feel frazzled by the end of my day. I never felt that way when I was working full time. I do have to admit, that if I was working full time, I don't know how I would get anything done. I guess I would have other people helping me do what I do. And my husband would have to kick in more. And I guess some things would be sacrificed, like like clean laundry and fresh food. And I would have to be very organized, which after having kids, is something that I am no longer able to do. I just think at work, I can focus on my task at hand, where at home there are about 2 dozen tasks at hand.

Maybe I should go back to work full time and relax a bit. But then I would have to take a shower every day and look presentable. Humm. I'll have to give this one some thought.