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[quote=Anonymous]I do: scheduling doctor/dentist appointments, planning birthday parties, buying gifts, buying clothes, planning summer camps, scheduling activities, laundry, managing day-to-day finances

My husband does: primary dog care, trash/recycling, big-picture/long-term finances, outside maintenance, all things structural/electrical, bug killing

We both do: attending doctor/dentist appointments, attending parties/recitals/performances/competitions, bathing/feeding kids, cooking/cleaning the kitchen

We have a full-time nanny who runs errands, including grocery shopping, while the kids are in school, helps with food prep, does the kids' laundry, and does the majority of dropping off/picking up.  We also have a maid who cleans.

We both work full-time jobs, and it's a toss up as to whose job is more demanding at any particular point in time.  We both make approximately the same.  He travels more than I do and will often be on base or at a secure location with no phone, so because of this it's easier for me to do things that require being on the computer, including emails.  I also like that stuff - I enjoy planning birthday parties and working on the summer calendar and searching for clothes, and he doesn't.  So we try to split our separate duties along the lines of who does what better or who enjoys something better.  The other stuff just gets divvied up.  He could probably name as many kids in our kids' classes as I could, although I know the parents' names more from being a room mom.  He's been to every back to school night, every parent/teacher conference, etc., so he knows a lot about their school.  We've probably been to equal doctor's appointments, either together or separately.  I love our dogs but he deals with them more.  We each generally handle our own cars because it's just easier that way.  I do think our roles are somewhat gender-typical, but that's not because we do the stuff we *think* we should, we just do the stuff we like or don't mind.  I'm also super anal retentive about laundry and how things are folded, so I handle that.  I do take the kids for more weekends away than he does but he does do it as well.  He also takes care of them on his own if I'm gone for work or pleasure.  As far as the kids are concerned, I think we're basically interchangeable, in that there's nothing one of us can do that the other can't.  There are things one of us likes to do more than the other, but we can both do everything, which I appreciate.[/quote]

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