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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I meal plan together every weekend, I do the Giant run and he does the Whole Foods run. We split cooking about 50/50, we try to get home about the same time every night and usually have dinner prepped the night before and just reheat - unless we are doing something simple like eggs, spinach quesadillas, etc. that can be made night of. My husband packs lunches in the morning. Cleaning - we have a cleaning service 2x month and a fairly small house. I tend to do the bathroom every few days during bath time and he tends to do the decluttering every night. We just clean up the kitchen every night as part of our routine. As long as the kitchen and bathroom is clean, I don't really care if there are dust bunnies under the bed in between the deeper clean that the housekeeper does. Laundry: I usually do laundry, it's not a big deal, I do it every few days, it gets put away eventually. My oldest child is pretty good about helping me. I've never found laundry that big of a deal. Work out: I walk a ton during the week since it's part of my commute. For weights, I do two mini workouts during the week and a longer one during the weekend. Usually before work when the house is quiet I can find 25 minutes or so to squeeze it in 2x a week. We are pretty active on the weekends, hiking/long walks/running around with the kids etc. I find being a working mom very manageable, but I've always worked and my husband has always been very hands on and had a VERY flexible job. He doesn't travel that much. We also have grandparents relatively close by and they are a big help. My advice is: outsource what you can, and make sure your husband is on board with pitching in. As for activities, our kids are a bit younger so haven't gotten in the thick of that yet, but my neighbor is a SAHM of one child and they have her way, way overtaxed with activities in my opinion. She told me recently the kid was exhausted all the time and they were eliminating a few. Don't feel like you have to have the kids in a ton of activities. That seems to be a new thing with our generation of parents - I wasn't in that many when I was younger. [/quote]
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