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[quote=Anonymous]OP again. Thanks for so many helpful suggestions! Will definitely check out Learn/Do/Become. To answer some questions-- 1. Having the kids make lunches has been in the works for a while. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. But I made a big announcement last week that they must do this in order to earn 1 hour of screen time. 2. I agree that 1.5 hours on screens is too long...it's admittedly a bad habit but a big chunk of my 4-5:30pm time is trying to make phone calls to patients/other healthcare providers before COB and I've found that trying to do this from the park, and/or while kids are supposedly entertaining themselves, just makes it more stressful. 3. DH does all of our laundry (mine included), drop offs, and covers all sick/snow days with very rare exceptions. This seems like a lot and while I agree he could be doing more day to day he is often not home until 7pm. And from there, he handles bedtime--obviously kids are pretty self-sufficient but he helps them along and reads to our younger one which means I can either chill or work. 4. However...he is very opposed to outsourcing anything we could do ourselves. Cleaning and yard work being the 2 major examples, and he thinks my standards are too high. This is a big reason why the house is messy when we're gone for 8 hours---because he leaves shoes and clothes lying around, and the kids do, too. I have become pretty relaxed in this regard but am *constantly* having to remind kids to hang up their jackets, put away their shoes, put away their books...and DH leaves just as much stuff lying around. But not trying to get into a major marital tussle over this. 5. I agree that I should aim for more weekend meal prep. We are vegetarian which means there's just not a huge amount of appealing slow cooker options, and at least 1 night/week we do takeout, and on another, I do something super simple (tacos, usually). Other nights I try to limit my meal prep/cooking to 30 minutes but with work and kid-related interruptions it's honestly 45 or more and very hard to cut that down. I have lately had additional work projects to do on the weekends which has made the prospect of meal prep really hard to wrap my brain around. But will give it a shot![/quote]
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