Welllllllllllllllllll...we're not quite extinct, although I'm tempted to drive off a cliff due to the endless drudgery and then there will be one less and we'll be nearer the endangered species list.
I suppose I'm only a 'housewife' when I have to tick a box on a form. My husband is in the merchant navy and works away for five months at a time. I've an 8 yr old, 3yr old, 2yr old and a 14wk old and no time to do housework. In fact, I've just hired a cleaner because I can't seem to make any headway with anything. I am, therefore, a rubbish housewife! I also have very poor alphabetising skills
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I can't wait to get a job and my husband would love to be a house-husband (and he'd be a thousand times better at it than me) but, alas, I couldn't keep him in the style to which we hope to become accustomed (when the kids move out, obviously).
Should be genetically brilliant at housework though because it's all my mother and her sisters ever do or talk about and no-one is allowed to breathe in their homes (no friends or hobbies to make them interesting people!).
Once had a woman in the playground ask me how I do my ironing. She was actually serious. I now avoid the playground and wait on the pavement
