Yeah, the idea that being at home means you're doing nothing, or picturesquely chirping around your house in lipstick and pearls while vacuuming... is a bit of a mystery. Probably a product of appliance advertising.

Trying to keep up with the household inertia and chaos, while homeschooling (or even with just little kids not at daycare)... People seriously do not realize how much harder that job is when you are never at the house *without* the kids. It's shoveling snow in a blizzard. I *wish* I could run a cottage industry, and my hat's off to ladies who manage it.