HOW PLENTY IS THE HOUSEWIFE'S PLENTY TIME?

It is often said that wives especially young ones prefer or are mandated by their husbands to remain housewives until the childbearing and nurturing stage is passed. This is done because it is believed it will afford them time, plenty of time actually to take care of the children, clean the house, care for her husband's needs and still have time to rest.
By the grace of God, I am a housewife for now, though I am trusting that the status changes soon as I dont prefer it and my husband is very worried about it. However, I am grateful to God for the privilege of being one, so that when I cross into being a career wife, I will appreciate the status and also have an understanding of what those housewives do. I dont have children yet, so there is no feeding the baby or 'school runs' to do. Neither do I have to scream out my vocal chords at two children to break up their fight while trying to prepare dinner (I fear for my neigbour's vocal chords!). I have come to know now that a wise housewife doesnt exactly have as much time as it seems especially with the children and all.
My neighbor is one. She bakes to sell within our neighborhood with her target market being children of school age. That means, she has to get meat pie, buns, egg roll, ready before 7am and that includes getting her two children ready for school, trying hard not to make enough noise to awake the newborn who kept her awake all night. So the snacks are ready and the children are off to school, then there is 'Oga on top' who she must attend to before he leaves for work by 8am. Just when she tries to heave a sigh relief, her human alarm goes off-the newborn screaming into the air as though he had been threatened in his sleep. She attends to him whilst still selling her snacks, this may last for an hour or two. Now she has to clean the house, wash clothes. After which she catches a nap for an hour hopefully then its time to pick the children from school, they come home and the the crazy woman in her is unleashed. This crazy woman is usually around till maybe 9pm when they go to bed. while in the crazy mood, she prepares lunch, dinner, helps the children with their homework, attends to baby, attends to husband. Baby finally agrees to sleep only God knows when, then she is most likely going to perform her marital bed duties to her husband in the midst of all these drama.
Truth is if she wasnt a housewife and had all these things to do, she wld most likely have asked for help from maybe a nanny for the baby or a sales girl. Her husband and society would not expect too much from her if she wasnt a housewife. She is mosst likely going to be very active in church and if she misses a day of meeting, people will wonder what she does with her PLENTY time that she couldnt just make it to the meeting.
Watching that woman these two months, has erased all the fancy ideas I had of a housewife. I know you will say they aren't all like that, but the truth is-she is your typical housewife. I think the housewives should be highly respected, that role was better off in a decade or two ago. I say so because, almost every woman had a sister, cousin, niece or mother who chose to come and stay with you when you had a baby. Times have changed. So when next u see that typical housewife(definitely not my type, I sleep and sleep again), accord her some respect!