Here are the lovely things about being at home during the weekdays:

• No one talks to you. Sure, you can talk on the phone, but that’s easy to screen if you are not in the mood (which is 98% of the time). You can initiate when you feel you may have spent too long without talking to an adult (and then blather on about god knows what to the poor soul who took your call. Sometimes you can hear them shifting phone around or nodding politely, or, say, typing an email as you tell them some very very interesting story about your gym class. But you power through that.). But you can also have DEAD SILENCE all day. It is bliss.
• No one wants to know what you are doing for lunch and/or questions why you are ordering lunch when we have lunch materials in the refrigerator (see: on a new budget, but more on that some other time).
• The apartment is tidy because you tidied up and no one is around to mess up your handiwork. There are not clothes on the bedroom floor (as in YOUR bedroom, the one that was so perfect when you lived alone. Who knew this would be the problem room, says your once OCD self, but alas, you married it). Why are there no clothes on the floor? Because you have (yet again) have kumbaya-ed your way into picking clothes up since you do not believe in “grey area” clothes (the ones certain people call not “really dirty or clean” thus grey and thus amass in a pile on floor while their fate is determined), particularly when it comes to the male portion of population. To be fair, sometimes your “picking up” involves shoving said clothes under his side of the bed with the edge of your toe, but I digress.
• You don’t need to listen to anyone chewing lunch/talking on phone at volume 11 in your presence (see: Noise blog)
• You are alone. ALONE! No one is calling your name, no one says mommy every 8 seconds, no one is asking for your opinion or where something is (like, say, the milk. Really, have been asked that question). It’s just you.

And then…..your spouse takes the plunge and starts a new company, and he’s home too.