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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your schedule kind of sounds boring to your kids though... Where's the pool time in the summer, bike rides, picnics, playgrounds, fun errands. Even brunch on Sunday doesn't sound appealing with kids. I have a 2 and a 4 year old. We spend half the weekend doing super fun kid stuff and then the other half tag teaming each other so we can get projects/chores done (but the kids are still having fun with the other parent). Also, my kids LOVE running errands with us. Grocery stores and Home Depot are some of their favorites, clothing stores no way. [/quote]

I agree! I would love to fit more of that in. I think people are focused on bill paying (don't know why that one example is sticking so hard) but really its that after nap there isn't much we can "do" in that block of time. We spend a lot of time going to playgrounds in our neighborhood, but we've been to them all so many times now that they're boring. I would love to add in things like playdayes, sports, etc, but that's what I'm not finding time for! Buy the time the kids get up and have a snack after nap it is 3:30 or 4pm and we're pretty limited in what we can do between then and dinner at 6ish, especially with one parent needing to focus on cooking dinner.

Because of COVID, we don't take them on errands - especially the 1.5 yo who can't mask properly. We loosened this a bit earlier in the summer but are cracking back down with Delta. So taking them both to Home Depot, etc, is a non-starter. Maybe life will be more fun post-COVID (slash when there is a vaccine for young kids) when I can stop grocery shopping after they go to bed and can start taking them with me to the grocery store on the weekend afternoons! That sure as hell would free up some time. [/quote]

I picked up on the bill paying thing. I think it sticks out because for most people this is something that takes literally no time. All my bills are set to autopay and I just basically glance at my phone every once in awhile to make sure it happened/nothing crazy is going on. It wouldn't occur to me to even list as a 'chore' that takes time. Which made me wonder if you exaggerating or if you are just being inefficient (not said judgily just trying to explain).

To deal with grocery store stuff I do the pickup option maybe once every other or every third weekend. That gets back a huge chunk of time. But even through COVID I've been able to take one kid with me because my oldest masks well (you can teach them this!)

COVID has definitely made all of this harder.

It sounds to me like you want to go out and 'do' stuff. Like fun stuff. Honestly with little kids it is easier to turn your house into a fun place and accept that sometimes its easier to create the fun at home and get stuff done simultaneously than to always be looking for an activity.

Which doesn't mean never leave, but I think this is what people are picking up on. With little kids it is hard to leave the house and be doing stuff all weekend. That will get better when they are older. I was happier when I accepted the limitations and tried to organize my life around minimizing those limitations instead of trying to force my old life around them.[/quote]

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