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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are both you and your DH getting home at 7PM every night? I'm going to say it: that's what needs to change. Change that, or have your DH change it if that works better, and you won't have to ask any of those other questions. [/quote]

I'm a single mom. DS is in aftercare. I get out of work at 5:30, get to school just at 6pm when it's closing, and we get home at 7pm. Some days I can get away with leaving at 5:15 or 5:20. [/quote]

Okay, PP you're responding to. I'm not trying to be a dick. I do think you need to figure out the timing thing. Can you go to work earlier and leave earlier? Do something to avoid the traffic that's making the commute so long? 1.5 hours to get home from work? and an hour to get from school to home? How far is your child's school from your house? Is the school your local / in bounds school? Can you do a carpool or something so that you both get home earlier and have more time at home?

I know it's stressful to be a single mom. I do think the solution to your problem starts with addressing the time-suck that getting out at 5:30 seems to put you in, as well as the distance school to home equation. [/quote]

Unfortunately, we're stuck with this schedule for the next couple of years. I work 8:30-5:30. School starts a little before 8am - we leave at 7am. School is farther from home than work is, but the closer school is not a good fit for DS at all. I'm making a list of all the ideas posters have given here that DS would eat and will see what we can do differently. Running a crock pot all day while we're out of the house makes me nervous though - isn't that like leaving the oven on all day, just at a lower level? [/quote]

I'm the poster who said I do PBJ as a last resort. I was a single mom for a while and I actually worked 8-6, so I feel our pain. Crock pot is a life saver. Unlike the oven, it's made to work unsupervised and it has safety features that will shut it off in case something goes wrong (power surge, overheating, etc.) Even now with a DH I still have the habit of making BBQ ribs or chicken in the crock pot on Sundays, along with homemade Mac and cheese and we eat that till Tuesday, only having to steam some vegetables (in microwave.) 
Then on Wednesday I do some kind of stew in the crock pot and rice and that'll take us to Friday. It's hard to plan ahead when you already feel so overwhelmed as it is, I know. But once you get used to it, it becomes second nature, I promise.[/quote]

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