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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had my three in under 4 years.

The early years were TOUGH.

But the youngest is now 6 and it is so awesome. We are an active family who loves to hike and ski and travel and it is nice that the youngest is old enough to keep up with our older two.[/quote]

I'm imagining the awesomeness of getting to the stage your at!  I'd love an active family that can all enjoy the same weekend things like hiking and skiing together. What does it take to juggle their needs at the ages you're at?  Do you feel like one adult at a time can meet the needs during a week (home work help, activity carting, time for convo and fun) or does it really take 2 adults at a time to meet everyone's needs in the mornings and evening?  [/quote]

It’s mostly fine. The main thing is juggling their schedules - they’re each in two activities a season and out at least 3 nights a week but I SAH and my DH has a flexible schedule. So for example today I dropped one off at tennis after school, DH will pick him up on his way home from work, then I took the other two with me to my daughter’s ice skating lesson. We’ll have dinner together at 6:30 then start on hw.

It kind of sucks when my DH is OOT forwork but fortunately he doesn’t have to travel that much and we have local family who are happy to help out. If DH we’re away tonight, my MIL would pick DS up from tennis while I am at ice skating.

It would be hard if he traveled more.[/quote]

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