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[quote=Anonymous]The first year with a baby and a toddler was survival mode, for sure.  My evening schedule was programmed to the minute:
5:00 leave work
5:45 arrive home (I dropped the kids off in the morning and DH picked them up in the afternoon)
15 minutes to kick off my heels, change into sweats, and turn on the stove
6:00-6:25 cook dinner
6:30 sit down to eat
6:50 done with dinner, start bath
7:30 both kids in bed (DH did dishes while I did bath/bedtime, or vice versa)
7:45-8:30 prep bottles, lunches and dinner for the following day
8:30-9:15 catch up on a few work emails and set my schedule for the following day
9:30 start getting ready for bed
10:00 lights out for me
Up at 5 the next morning to start all over

As you can see, the magic to this schedule is having dinners that can be mostly prepped in advance and cooked or reheated in 20 minutes.  Lots of batch cooking on weekends.  Prep the night before might mean cooking ground beef for tacos and prepping the sides; dinner is just warming up.  Or slicing chicken breasts into thin cutlets and trimming green beans; dinner is a quick pan-fry for the chicken (7-8 minutes) and pan-steam the green beans.  Or order pizza from my phone on the way home.

Luckily, that level of craziness only lasted for a couple of years.  Honestly, that's why I stopped at two.  I couldn't picture starting all that over again. [/quote]

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