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[quote=Anonymous]I am a single mom, well above Tier 3 but with an incredibly flexible job where I create my own hours--I bill a high hourly rate so I am VERY lucky. I have a nanny/housekeeper (yes, one of those) who works 4 or 5 days a week and ends up clocking roughly 35 hours. During that time I work and run errands, she also babysits one or two nights a week at maybe an additional 12 hours. About once ever two or three weeks I hire her for an additional 5 hours a week to ONLY clean, no childcare. So, let's just say at the maximum I have about 55 hours of childcare/household help a week. I still feel like I am going slightly insane at times. If I were making maybe $30k more I would hire one of those personal organizers or a freelance personal assistant to periodically help me maintain order.

For meals, I love to cook so I place importance on that. Unfortunately, our beloved LIFESAVER can barely boil water so she has no duties in that regard and I just prepare meals for my son and leave them in the fridge for her to heat up or offer as is. I do Peapod for most pantry goods, have milk delivered from a dairy, and I go to Whole Foods for produce because I like to choose my own stuff.

I am also in a relationship but he doesn't sleep over, nor does he really see my son very often. I am pretty good about keeping up a firewall between my relationship and my family life. I try to work the boyfriend into my free evenings and my workdays for lunch and stuff. We also text and talk (after bedtime) on the phone a lot, like teenagers. I actually think it is awful.

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Prep meals the night before, sometimes it is the last thing I do before I go to bed.

Sometimes, it just matters that the clothing in the hamper is clean, not that it made it back into the drawer.

Ordering out two nights worth of food from a restaurant that you love, so you can have lunches for a few days or whatever to alleviate stress.

Sometimes, Sesame Street isn't the devil. Sometimes, it's your friend.

Get a planner with a note-taking section. Date all your notes, keep them all in you planner. Keep everything together. iPhones are great to use, too, but having stuff on physical paper has saved me SO MANY times.

diapers.com/soap.com/amazon.com/sephora.com/gap.com: I NEVER go to the mall. Shopping online allows me to save time and go to the park or make mac-n-cheese from scratch.

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