How many hours do you spend away from home everyday? - Page 2

[MrsBone]

I really try and make sure that if I want to leave the house I bring snacks and drinks or else I just don't go. Everything takes at least 20 minutes to get to around here and with working around naps and lunch, I have to make sure there's food with us. Plus we have food allergies, so I'm forced to have some back up food in case someone gets hungry. Inevitably, at least once a week we have to eat lunch somewhere, but it's usually cheap and it's just enough to hold us over until we get home. I don't necessarily do it to be frugal, I do it to be healthy. I spend a lot of my day prepping food and cooking because I try and cook mostly from scratch. I guess it's a hobby of mine. If I didn't cook anything from scratch, I'd probably go out of the house more and rely on convenience foods for dinner/lunch, but that's not how I roll, so I have to make sure I'm home to have time to cook.

[Snapdragon]

I try to stay out as much as possible with 17 month old ds.  I have a hard time playing and entertaining him for too long just at home. We both feel happier when we get out and see people. There is not too much to do in our town- there is a library thank goodness- oddly, no playground right now- there is one at the next town over 15-20 minutes drive but I really prefer to keep driving at a minimum. So mostly we just go to the store and walk around and chat with people (there is a nice friendly market type store where people hang out a lot) and go to a cafe which is not that fun but still an outing, or to the library- or we drive to town and I put him in the stroller and walk. He is much happier to go for a longer stroller walk and get excited about the cars and trucks whizzing by, and see some other people walking by than he is to take a walk on our quiet steeet and see no one. I am too actually! Before having ds I stayed home as much as possible. We just spent a week with family and it was much easier to stay home a lot because there were a total of 4 of us playing with him and hanging out- so it was a fun thing. But on a day to day basis dh is at work and I am alone with ds so I just try to get out! If we stay home too long he starts climing the walls and getting restless and I cannot engage in creative play for too long! Some, but then I need to get out. I am thinking of starting a playgroup at my house which I really hope works out.

[Perla]

i have a 20 month old grl and a 9 month old grl. im 21. im currently married and with a 25 yr old who i love with my heart,the only thing is that he wrks most of the day and i stay home all day because i dont drive, i dont go to school, and i dont wrk. i dedicate my life to my babies but sometimes i do get irritated at my husband for little things and sometimes im irritated all day for no reason. maybe cz the grls were too fuzzy today or whatever and i end up taking it out to my husband. where we live it is very isolated and we have to drive at least 15 minutes to get to the park so i gota wait for my husband to get home. what can i do to get rid of these feelings or make things go better? i love the my kids but staying home all day eveyday can drive me crazy sometimes :/ someone pls advise me!!

[Snapdragon]

I don't have advice but I agree that staying home alone all day with kids is crazy making- and for me ani=xiety producing! I actually moved after having my baby because where we lived was like a 25 minute drive to everywhere- now we live like  a 10 minute drive from the center of town, which still feels too far to me- I would rather be closer but it is all we could find. Since you have no car or don't drive, can you move somewhere where you can walk to town? I personally am trying to move even closer to town- accepting my 10 minute drive for this year where we are renting, but hoping next year to move more like a 3 minute drive if I can!!

[ERue]

Originally Posted by seawitch 

I don't enjoy going to playgroups and we don't have the money for structured activities or admission prices to places... and it's just too hot in Florida right now to get out and about to parks and the like. We spend most days at home, except on days when I run errands or go to the library (sans kids, mostly).

This us us, too. I cannot wait until it cools down. I feel like I'm getting slowly stifled when we go outside.

[kayleesmom]

i only take my kids out a little bit each day. but on weekends we are out most of the day.