my DH would laugh if you called me a homemaker.
I worked for much of my married life. For my first 2 children it was veryy hard: from Flatbush, I took them by car svc,- an infant & toddler – to a babysitting service in BP, then took the express bus to Manhattan; did the reverse coming home.. for 2 weeks out of the month for a year or so. stayed home for a few years, then worked walking distance from my home when the younger two were already in school.
stopped working in 2001, but started babysitting full-time for my newborn grandson in 2004.. then another grandson.. then a granddaughter. retired again, lol, when she started school @ 2 1/2 y.o. this past Sept. but I still babysit as needed.. I have my 2 grandsons, 6 1/2 & 5 1/2 ka’h, over my house right now 🙂