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[quote=Anonymous]I know this comes up here a lot and I am mainly hoping to get some helpful tips (which has worked in the past!).  DH and I both work FT--kids are 5th grade and 2nd grade--I go into work super early (like 7-7:30am) so I can leave by 3:30 to either pick them up or meet them at home (they are mature enough to walk, it's several blocks from their school to our home).  DH drops them off in the morning and typically gets home by dinner time, sometimes later.

My typical workday looks like this:
-Wake up at 5:30am
-Go to the gym, work out for ~30 minutes, get ready for work
-Get to work by 7:30ish
-Work frantically until it's time to leave
-Come home, help with homework 
-Kids get ~1.5 hours of TV/games while I make lunches for the next day, make dinner, clean up, tie up loose ends from work...this is honestly the craziest part of the day
-Dinner, showers, bedtime and sometimes I have more work to do after they go to bed

Some days they have activities and then it's a really mad rush to get everything done before we have to leave the house, immediately after dinner.  But this is no more than 2 evenings a week and DH and I have both encouraged them to stick with the activities.

Mostly, I just feel like I am never caught up, anywhere.  I work in healthcare so when I saw "loose ends" I mean that there are notes to write and calls to make that really cannot wait until the following day.  I wish there was an end in sight to that but have not been able to come up with a new or different work scenario in which I get to do what I do with these hours.

We have monthly house cleaners (DH is vehemently opposed to more often), and I do online grocery shopping, Amazon prime which helps--but lately have still felt like I just cannot keep up with it all.  The house stays messy all the time, I struggle to get dinner on the table/kids fed, and stay on top of my workload.  Admittedly I am not the most efficient at work and am trying to find a way to stay away from my phone/off email during the workday...but am not sure how much the occasional 10-minute chat with a coworker or text to a friend makes or breaks me.

Any suggestions on how to streamline, DCUM?[/quote]

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