Momxercise - Look At The Calories Burned!

I have been in search of a calorie calculator today. One that will help me count the calories that I burn in an ordinary day, without exercise. This isn't because I'm watching my weight or the food I eat, its just out of curiosity. I used A Calorie Calculator and for those activities I do that they don't have listed, I just picked the closest activity that I thought would expend the same amount of energy.

Thursdays (my busiest day):

1. Make breakfast and lunch (60 mins)....................................................................................................96 Kcal
2. Clean up breakfast mess, tidy up the house and  get Aaron and  Adrian ready for school drop off (30 mins)...........60 Kcal                                  
3. Walk Aaron to classroom, walk back including detour to playground with Adrian (15 mins)..........................36 Kcal
4. Take Adrian for 2 hours of Montessori activities...............................................144 Kcal
5. Activities with Adrian after nap time..................................................................70 Kcal
6. Pick Aaron up from school...............................................................................36 Kcal
7. Activities with Aaron and Adrian for 1 hour after school.....................................70 Kcal
8. Make dinner (60 mins).....................................................................................96 Kcal
9. Average of 5 nursing sessions spread out through the day................................250 Kcal

The grand total is 858 Kcal for all the activities I have that are related to being a mother. Thursday is also my clogging day and supposedly 3.5 hours of that burns 756 Kcal. That would bring the total to 1614 Kcal. The other activity I haven't included is going to the gym because I have not been going consistently these past few weeks. But if I did (and I will be getting back to that soon) thats another 264 Kcals per day.

So what does it all mean to me? Nothing much, especially since I have no idea how many calories I take in each Thursday. I was just curious about how much energy mothering takes. If you divide it out, one day of mothering is the same as 3.25 hours in the gym. It does make me feel a little less guilty about not going to the gym but of course, the gym isn't purely for burning calories.