Things you need to do when you are a white, middle-class stay-at-home-mother in America

I quit my job. And for now, I am a stay-at-home-mom.

Things you need to do when you are a (white, middle-class) stay-at-home-mother in America:

1. Spend lots of time with your child (obviously)
2. Drink white wine every afternoon
3. Go to yoga classes while child is with babysitter
4. House cleaning on a new level
5. Play dates with other kids and moms
6. Watch a lot of Desperate Housewives
7. Knit every day
8. Get child to sleep on schedule, in own bed
9. Cook meals
10. Pool time
11. Bake bread
12. Get nails done very often
13. Become super fit - mostly through those home videos with pole fitness
14. Tanning
15. Obsess over your child's development compared to other children's development
16. Interior design make-over
17. Feel bad for working mothers
18. Coffee dates with other stay-at-home-moms
19. Read People magazine every day
20. Talk on the phone. A lot.
21. Look for a new job