Definitely, when they were very small particularly there just wouldn't have been any other option! Small hungry/tired/soiled children don't wait! Unless maybe the KGB paid for a nanny for some of that time, but I am guessing a nanny would not be at the top of their budget priorities.
(and oh god your comment about how Elizabeth must have haaaated that? YES THAT. YES. It is totally canon to me that at least a decent chunk of why she experienced their early lives in America so very differently from Philip was that she got stuck at home with the children a lot of the time and just SEETHED with resentment about the whole thing. Maybe not even consciously so much, since as their mum I think it's clear that she's taken on board some of the traditional ideas about what a motherly role requires, even if most of those ideas don't apply to her at all, but still. God, I am just cringing with sympathy on her behalf. And I still kind of think that the having kids together is the creepiest bit of the KGB Marriage deal. (I don't think she'd have had any at all if that hadn't been required, gah.)
(Also I wonder how much of the laundry/cleaning/cooking etc Philip did as a member of the family... my feeling is more than some, but not half.)
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Date: 2013-06-11 05:25 pm (UTC)(and oh god your comment about how Elizabeth must have haaaated that? YES THAT. YES. It is totally canon to me that at least a decent chunk of why she experienced their early lives in America so very differently from Philip was that she got stuck at home with the children a lot of the time and just SEETHED with resentment about the whole thing. Maybe not even consciously so much, since as their mum I think it's clear that she's taken on board some of the traditional ideas about what a motherly role requires, even if most of those ideas don't apply to her at all, but still. God, I am just cringing with sympathy on her behalf. And I still kind of think that the having kids together is the creepiest bit of the KGB Marriage deal. (I don't think she'd have had any at all if that hadn't been required, gah.)
(Also I wonder how much of the laundry/cleaning/cooking etc Philip did as a member of the family... my feeling is more than some, but not half.)