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[quote=Anonymous]I had to back down way from my job when DW’s ramped up. Yours is probably quite intense and your kids very small if even a housekeeper and nanny don’t alleviate some of the concerns about healthy meals, etc. It does get easier when kids can stay up a bit later. One thing we did was flex the kids as much as possible if DW couldn’t flex. If they have a conference day, we’d meet at her office to have food truck lunch together. Or she’d take public transit to work but we’d pick her up when traffic was calmer and drive home together and stop for ice cream or something. Even then, it wasn’t a ton of time together and the logging on for hours after bedtime put a lot of pressure on me to cover the second shift.

Also 3 kids is a lot to juggle and no one I know with 3 is spending quality time with them so much as driving them around, picking them up, or moving their possessions around. Finally, don’t worry about PTA meetings. They seem like a big deal when you’re not there but they’re agony when you are. Our school hosts them in the evenings or early mornings in alternate months, so you should ask your school to do the same. It increases the chances we make it to 1-2 of them.[/quote]

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