After extensive research.....

After an extensive case study that may or may not include people that you know I have come to the conclusion that men and women have vastly different definitions of “doing nothing all day”.

 A woman’s day of ‘nothing’ may include:
* getting up after all the children are bouncing on the bed and/or crying that they’re STARVING
* going to the kitchen and pouring bowls of cereal
* changing a diaper, turning on a movie for the kids while she tosses the bowls into the sink, brushes hair, teeth and puts on yoga pants and a loose T-shirt.
* spends some time checking email, Facebook and favorite blogs (such as this one).
* She then starts to feel guilty about actively rotting her children’s brains so she shuts off the TV and they head outside. She puts the baby in the swing, set up her lounge chair so she can push him and reads a magazine she got three months ago
* the kids start to say their hungry so she goes in to make pb&j’s and serves them with baby carrots, apples and each kid gets a cookie and milk.
*She then rinses the breakfast and lunch dishes, wipes the table and counters, nurses and puts the baby to bed and sits on the couch to read, or crochet or look through curriculum catalogs until the awake children bring her a huge stack of books, so they all snuggle in and read 30,000 books.
*Baby wakes up so she puts away anything he can wreck, such as yarn or books and gets on the computer or reads while the children bicker and play with legos or play dough.
* she starts a load of laundry but forgets to either A. put it in the dryer or B. fold and put it away
*then it’s time to pick up toys, books and clothing scattered around the house and think about supper
* A previously prepared and frozen meal goes in the oven, a salad is prepared and a veggie will be steamed *She then gets on Facebook and checks emails
*They eat supper, she cleans kitchen while the kids are outside with Daddy, picks up the house, does baths, vacuums, bedtime stories, hugs and snuggles, bed for kids, cleans the bathroom from bath time, puts away books, turns on her favorite TV show and crochets with facebook open next to her and thinks “My what a lazy, relaxing day”

A man’s day of ‘nothing’ may include:
*Moving from bed to the couch to watch TV
*Only getting up to use the bathroom and bring food to the couch
* The kids run around like wild people, eating whatever and making a mess.