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[quote=Anonymous]My mom lives with us and helps with child care. It's been amazing - my mom loves being with the kids, they adore her and my husband and I get some much-needed help. However, my mom and I are very close and get along great and don't have any drama. She also gets along really well with my husband. That's all very important. We do not have her provide full-time child care. It would be far too exhausting. She watched my second-born for a couple months when I first went back to work full-time until a spot opened in day care. So I think it could work for an infant if they are up for it. But by 10 months or so when the kid starts getting really mobile, it's so physically draining.

I hope my mom never leaves. She's helpful to us 24-7 -- takes the kids to school, picks them up, is there for sick days and when we have to work late or travel. She also does laundry and grocery shopping. I have not done either of those things in two years, which is such a luxury and allows me to spend all my free time really being with my kids and not running errands or doing chores.

My mom's bedroom is in a separate part of the house and we love having her good humor and example of patient loving care around all the time. But she also will go out on weekends a lot to do stuff for herself and also to give us some time together. [/quote]

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