I am a trophy wife and have been (again) for all of three weeks. Greener grass and all that. Now that I'm not working full-time, I can get involved in more activities and make friends that are SAHw/oK since I'm kids-free but that will take time too. Someday I'll be *that* wife that hasn't earned a paycheck for 20 years but for now I'd rather earn a paycheck or sit at a club wearing a tennis skirt and drinking like a fish rather than being in the netherworld of neither/nor.
Didn't you try being a SAHM before, and ultimately were unhappy?
the grass greener :-)
They are all in school now so I think it would be different.
I'm not SAHM material but I think I'd be ok with it in your situation. I could have some time to myself and maybe actually make it to the gym once in a while. I'd volunteer in my kids classes, be on committees at the school, go on field trips, etc. My house may actually get cleaned too.
I could volunteer more at my kids school. I quit JL because I just didn't have time.
I would have time to take exercise classes, cook proper dinners and maybe do the dishes and laundry...
Can you go part-time? My sister works one day a week at her office and one day a week from home. And the day from home can be any day she wants. It leaves her enough time to do all the things you listed above. She chaperones field trips, is on school committees, and best of all, she can do errands while everyone else is at work, which makes them take like 1/3 as long as doing it in the evening or on a weekend.