https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:18:49 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2087141 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:16:31 +0000 Bubbles 2087141@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He's a freelancer, so it's completely random. Sometimes it's great and we get to have extra days together during the week, sometimes it's not so great. He left at 5.30am this morning, it's now 8.15pm and he's still not home! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2087044 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:53:11 +0000 lemondrop 2087044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He works four 10's so it varies, but usually 6am to 4ish. He's always home on my work day to take the boys and does most of the bedtimes since I have a few nights tutoring and night classes. He usually works half the weekend and we try to coordinate another weekday off together for a family day.</p> <p>Most of the time I love his schedule, but lately we've both had extra shifts, so I haven't seen him much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2084037 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:24:01 +0000 Tidybee 2084037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH works 20 minutes away and is gone from 8am -5:45/6pm. He does work from home occasionally and usually works at night and weekends but at least he is home for dinner and bedtime every night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2084003 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:54:51 +0000 winniebee 2084003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Such long hours for you both!!!</p> <p>He is usually gone 630-630 on a good day but depending on his surgery days he misses bed time usually 2x a week. If he is on call during the week he sometimes comes home but goes back into work. When he is on call on weekends it's very unpredictable. He is usually gone half the day sometimes all day and sometimes all night. That's typically every other weekend. He works a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083949 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:39:51 +0000 Mrs.ThinMint 2083949@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He leaves at 7am and is usually home by 5-5:30pm. He also works from home some on the side some. Mabye 2 hours a day, but not everyday. He's a software developer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083881 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:08:24 +0000 HLK208 2083881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH is gone from 6am-8pm, 5/6 days a week. Sometimes it's day shift, sometimes night shift (so he'll leave at 6pm and get home at 8am). His schedule should be 4 days on and 4 days off but he usually gets called in once or twice a week.</p> <p>It's hard but we've gotten use to it. The kids miss him often though. I try to make the best of it though. I think of how hard it must be on military families when I feel down about DH's schedule. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083869 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:59:48 +0000 luckypenny 2083869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH leaves at 7:30 am and comes home at 7:30 pm. DD2 goes to sleep at 6pm so he really doesn't see her except on weekends :(. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083861 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:55:39 +0000 coopsmama 2083861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH is gone from 6:45am-4:45pm Monday-Thursday, and then 6:45am-3:45pm on Fridays and he gets every other Friday off. I love his schedule and am so thankful. I feel for some of you SAH and having to do so while your partner works such long hours! That would be tough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083860 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:54:43 +0000 Mae 2083860@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH usually leaves for work around 8:30 or so, which is nice because he gets up with LO (almost) every day when she wakes around 6:30 or so and does the first hour with her so I get to sleep a little more and he gets to hang with her before he has to get ready for work. </p> <p>Twice a week he has night school after work and so he isn't home until 9:30 or so those nights. Then a lot of times he has group work/projects after work so those nights are easily 9pm or so too. When he is coming straight home from work he is home anywhere between 6 and and 7 most nights. LO goes to bed at 7:30 so he doesn't get to see her a ton at night, but that's why it's awesome they get that hour in the morning together. He doesn't work too much from home, but he does always have school work so he's pretty busy. Obviously I'd like him home more because thing are more fun when he's here, but I'm grateful he has a great job with pretty good work/life balance and that he's so committed to doing well in school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083845 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:47:50 +0000 erinpye 2083845@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH is gone 8-5, sometimes he leaves earlier for meetings, M-F. He can also work from home any day he wants. Occasionally he travels for work, depending on his projects. He's entirely remote, so this is the schedule he selected because it's easiest to communicate with his clients. He's a project manager, and a few other hats, for a company that designs and builds apps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083816 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:33:16 +0000 BandDmommy 2083816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He leaves around 6 am and gets home 8 pm. He usually works after he gets home. He also works from home on the weekend. He works for an international firm so he gets demands around the clock. He's a finance executive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083808 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:29:59 +0000 Zbug 2083808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH leaves around 7:15/7:30 and gets home at 6. It's not that bad, but my friends' husbands are around more so I'm jealous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083807 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:29:50 +0000 MamaBehr 2083807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH works from about 6 am to 4. He is frequently home between 4:30 and 4:45, which is fantastic! I love these hours.</p> <p>September, October, and November he was gone for two weeks at a time, every two weeks. It was awful. I hated it, so much. But, it showed me how strong I am! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083776 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:13:13 +0000 Cole 2083776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It is crazy how such long hours can be the norm, it looks like a lot of you have spouses with very long hours!</p> <p>My husband usually leaves between 7&amp;8 depending on if lo is awake (he will play with her for a bit if he can) and gets home between 7 and 8. One of those nights he does leave work "early" to play racquetball. Frequently he does another hour after getting home and four hours most weekends. It can be overwhelming but he does his best to use his time wisely to spend the most time he can with us as a family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083761 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:09:57 +0000 jedeve 2083761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Gah I feel bad for whining now. DH is usually gone from 8-5:45. Occasionally he works late from home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083755 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:06:44 +0000 petunia354 2083755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>5ish to 5 M-F and 5-11 on Saturdays which I hate! And now he is taking a class so M&amp;W he doesn't get home until 9. Thankfully I work (sorry, I know you asked SAHM's!) because I don't know if I could do it as a SAHM. You ladies are my heroes.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083753 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:04:43 +0000 keepcalmcarrie 2083753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He just today started going in earlier so he can continue leaving early without feeling guilty :) His boss is very understanding of life in s new area with a toddler and a newborn, but he couldn't work 7 hour days forever!</p> <p>He leaves the house around 7 AM, gets to work in 15 minutes, works 7:15-4 (eats lunch in his office) and takes off ASAP after 4 PM (doesn't always work out that way, sometimes he stays until after 5), but when it works it's a huge lifesaver for my sanity with that 4 o'clock toddler witching hour! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083736 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:56:16 +0000 Torchwood 2083736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll be a SAHM, and am currently a housewife. DH's schedule depends on what stage his current project is in. The hours start out normal, 40 hours a week, but as they get closer to rollout they start doing more. He usually goes to 10 hour days for a while, and then at the end might have a month or so of 60+ hour weeks. After rollout there's usually a week or two of longer hours, then it drops back to 40/week. If we're lucky, he gets put on production support and he has 40 hour weeks for a good long time. If we're not, we get moved and it starts over with a new project. Typically a project lasts 1-2 years, to put that all on a timeframe.</p> <p>In bad cases, like the current project, the weeks get to 70+ months before rollout. He's currently doing 90 hour weeks, though hopefully this will be the last. If he gets put on another project like this one (mismanaged and understaffed) once LO is here, I'll go bonkers. Thankfully he gets paid for overtime, so at least this is great getting extra money before LO, but he is SO worn out. </p> <p>As far as time, he likes to be there early and leave as soon as he can, which is usually 5. We live around 15 minutes from his work in good traffic. But who knows where we might live once we get moved again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083723 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:46:14 +0000 AprilFool 2083723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He leaves around 7 and gets home about 4:30/4:45 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083716 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:41:42 +0000 Ree723 2083716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH works pretty long days, but it is a massive improvement on what he was doing in Australia so we don't complain! He leaves the house at 6:30 a.m. and gets home around 7:30 p.m. if there aren't any delays on the tube and overland trains. He doesn't work any weekends anymore either, so we're loving that!</p> <p>Prior to moving to England seven months ago, he was leaving home at 2:15 a.m. and getting home at 4:30 p.m. SIX days per week, most of that time spent outside in the hot tropics of northern Australia. It was insanity and the main motivator that pushed us to finally leave Australia! We are loving his current hours :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083667 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:58:15 +0000 gingerbebe 2083667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm on maternity leave for a year with DS. DH leaves the house MWF by about 10am, commutes 75 miles each way, and teaches college courses. He works from home running his law practice T/Th, nights, and weekends. M and W nights DH also takes classes for his executive MBA and has to go in every other Saturday to meet with his cohort. Sooo he's really busy. But he's around a few days a week working from home so I can get a hand here and there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083663 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:56:40 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2083663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am technically a WAHM, but I consider myself a SAH mom, too, since I am home with the girls full time when my DH is at work. He works 11 hours most days. He leaves around 12:30 pm and comes home at 11:30 pm. One day a week he has an early shift, and leaves at 8 and is home around 6:30 or 7:00. Fridays and Saturdays are his days off, which is awesome. He is in upper management for a large retail chain so his hours are pretty much always going to suck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083644 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:43:02 +0000 sandy 2083644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It can vary so much bc there are times that he's traveling a lot for work but there are also lots of times that he can work from home. I think the best thing is that his commute isn't that far so it never takes him longer than 15-20 minutes to get home and there's almost never traffic. </p> <p>When he isn't traveling for work he usually leaves around 7:30 and is home no later than 6:30. But there are often days he leaves at 5:30am and comes home to put LO to bed and works through the night. He rarely works on the weekend though which is so nice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083610 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:19:32 +0000 jhd 2083610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm spoiled because DH works from home. He has an office space set up downstairs and generally works about ten hours per day. </p> <p>@Bao: that sounds tough! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083609 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:18:35 +0000 NurseDMB 2083609@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only work part time night shift so still am a SAHM most days.</p> <p>My DH works Mon Tues Wed 8a-8p, Thu 8a-5p, Friday's off, Sat 9-530, Sun 12-4.</p> <p>It's nice that he gets Friday's off but I wish he was home more. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083604 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:17:10 +0000 BabyTsMom 2083604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I work p/t, but he's out of the house by 6:45-7am, back home around 7pm, just long enough to see LO for about 5-20 minutes. Sucks. And he often has to work once he gets home and some weekends as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083595 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:11:47 +0000 youboots 2083595@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well I'm not a SAHP quite yet (less than 2 weeks to go), but I am a seasonal SAHW, so our life is planned around his schedule. He works from home usually 2 days a week which tend to be shorter days some days I make us both breakfast. He sees customers 3ish days a week, those are longer 10ish hour days. He is gone overnight about 6 nights a month on average. He works here and there on the weekends, but nothing too crazy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083584 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:09:30 +0000 Greentea 2083584@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He leaves at 5:30 and is off at 2 pm. Home at 3ish. It is wonderful. However, at least twice a week he runs errands after work, or has appointments, or we both do. We walk to grocery shop and most shopping in general though, making it a more fun family activity.</p> <p>@bao: That is a lot of time for you to be with the kids! DH works 1-2 days after work as well, and then like I said he has at least two appointments a week. I at least prefer him to be home every other night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083582 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:09:02 +0000 ChitownRo 2083582@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He DH leaves for work at 7 and is home most days by 7:30. We will eat dinner and then put LO down, then he works more from home. I would say he is gone 65 hours/week plus works from home some<br /> I work PT, so not a full time SAHP </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sahps-whats-your-sos-schedule-like#post-2083572 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:05:57 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2083572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He leaves around nine and is often home around four. He works from home a lot and on weekends too, but his schedule is really flexible which is awesome. </p>