I love my therpist- she's great ... she's been in all of our Sahm shoes and has an autistic child - she's done it all!
So, anywhoo ... you all know that I have a huge problem with being a Sahm - it just gets to me in so many ways.

So, her suggestion (one of the many) was for me to make my own weeked (what on earth!)
Everyone else who works a real job gets a weekend off - it's normally saturday/sunday. But, as we know, weekends for Sahms can be busier than any other day of the week. And everyone needs at least one day off from the daily grind.

So she told me to make my Sahm weekend on thursday or friday, something like that. :tu A day when the older kids are in school (ok, so we have 5 kids - a lot of others don't get to shuck off 1/2 :lmao) and the hubby is at work.

To do this you plan your daily work with the focus of having everything (or almost everything) done by the night before your day off so when you wake up on your day off you don't have anything to do other than breakfast and kids off too school.
During the day you can do WHATEVER YOU WANT - watch tv all, go out to the mall, (in my case - fire up the torch and make some jewelry) and so on and so forth...
Take care of the essentials, of course, change diapers, etc ... but no heavy cleaning, laundry, or even cooking. (she suggested that dinner for the day off could be easy-dinner or take-out :tu)

She told me that and I was like :wow A day off? I can get a day off :wow
And at first I didn't think it was possible ... but I've taken one true day off of work and it was great! I was able to relax and just enjoy the kids rather than be pissy with them all day. And when it was dinner time I actually felt like cooking 'cause i spent most of the day relaxing.

If you don't try to give yourself a day off, you really should - I definately have a new weekly goal to stick to.