and still have to do most everything at home (ahem like in our house sometimes ahem)...
We're about an hour north of Syracuse. We heat the place with a wood stove and spend hours chopping and stacking wood, cleaning the wood stove every 2 weeks, no dishwasher, etc... This place is high maintenance.
Haha, well I can't say that I am stoking a flame every day, but the maintenance on a large house with a huge backyard and three kids is exhausting, when you are working full time! It would be nice if things were a little more even around here, but things improve a little bit at a time! Patience, I tell myself, patience.