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[quote=Anonymous]My spouse travels for work constantly, even throughout Covid, often with very little notice.  I work full time remote.  We have a 3 year old.  I created a routine for mornings and evenings that I can handle solo.

Am- I am up 45 minutes early to get ready for day, check work emails, make breakfast and pack backpack.  When 3 year old is up it’s just get them dressed, brush teeth, eat and out the door.

Pm- We get home and have some decompress time, often outside.  Then Super simple dinner, play time, 30 minute tv, books, bath bed

Other thoughts which makes this doable for me:

-when solo parenting, massively drop your standards 
- working from home 
- full time childcare, less than 10 minutes from home 
- laundry during the work day, takes two seconds to switch, fold during conference calls
- bi monthly house cleaner, I clean kitchen nightly and bathrooms as needed
- set a timer for 15 minutes each night for cleaning/to tidy whatever needs attention.  Other than this I do very little cleaning.
- work out for 30 mins over lunch break 
- simple meals/prepared foods/take out when spouse travels.  
- pack lunches and pick out clothes the night before 
-one tv show at night when I’m solo so I can get random things done
-after kid goes to bed I do little housework, it’s mostly just down time to regroup 
-when spouse travels for more than 1.5 weeks or over two consecutive weekends I often take a full or half day off work [/quote]

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