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[quote=Anonymous]What are you having to pack for school and daycare every night? Does your daycare not provide food? Can the kindergartner eat school lunch? I pack things on Sunday night (clean sheets/blanket, diapers and wipes, whatever extra items needed...like a small pumpkin this week).

I have a pre-schooler and 18-month-old and I am on my own with them most mornings. I lay out clothes the night before for the preschooler and she gets herself dressed in the morning. I either shower the night before or get up 30 minutes before they're up to shower and get dressed. Then I get the younger one up and dressed, feed them breakfast (fresh fruit and cereal), clean up, do hair, and we go out the door to their two separate drop-offs. And I do at least one of the pick-ups too so I am very much with you on the rushing home, always running late thing.

I cook a couple meals on Sunday so I don't have to cook again until Tuesday or Wednesday. All meals stretch to be dinner for all of us plus lunch for DH and me the next day plus at least dinner for DH when he comes home hangry at 4pm. Freezer stays stocked with Costco chicken nuggets for whenever necessary. I do meal planning on the weekends and add needed groceries to a shared list via Google Home. I make things that are relatively quick, stretch several meals, use up what we have, and that my family will actually eat. This means a lot of pasta and rice-based dishes: spaghetti, chicken alfredo, coconut curry, tacos, meatballs/meatloaf, etc. I throw in steamed frozen veggies on the side most nights.

Maybe get a housekeeper for laundry and groceries/meals? Laundry kills me but I do admittedly get some help there most weeks from MIL who will wash and fold the kids' laundry once a week. So it's just my own laundry that kills me unless she's out of town or decides she doesn't feel like doing it (which is fine, she does it as a favor, I don't expect it). Tends to sit in the hamper for very long periods of time.[/quote]

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