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[quote=Anonymous]4yo and 1.5yo daughters here. We rarely do major activities- museums, zoo, day trips, etc but lots of local easy going things.

DH wakes up with the kids both sat and sun and they cook breakfast. He works a lot during the week and this is chosen special time with them. He actually gets grumpy if I come out of the bedroom before 8am. I usually lay in bed, read, and listen to their giggles. When breakfast is ready, they make a big deal about coming to "wake me up" and we all usually end up dog piling around our big bed for a bit. My 18mo lives for this. Then we all eat breakfast.

After breakfast we usually do one of the following:
-Farmers market
-We have several coffee shops that we know are walking distance to playgrounds and DH and I get coffee and we head to the park
-Library
-Forest preserve for a walk/hike

Then always home for nap. Older DD has to either watch a movie or read books in her bed or can choose a quiet activity like her craft bin. Saturday nap time I'm free to leave the house and do whatever. I usually work out or run an errand. Sundays DH is free to leave during nap. He almost always goes for a run. Sometimes to the driving range.

After nap we typically visit some combo of our parents (all live within 15 mins of us) or friends. If friends, we usually just hang in someone's yard and have a casual potluck or order food while the kids play. Our best friends live across the street and we have kids the same age so we do a lot with them.

7pm bedtimes almost religiously. Dh and I either watch a movie, sit in our yard with the fire pit, have a glass of wine in the sunroom, or play cards/games. Sometimes one of us goes out goes out with friends. Sometimes we split households with our neighbors- moms hang at one house and have a glass of wine, dads hang at the other and play video games or have beers while pretending to fix something.

We spend a lot of weeknight evenings running errand and catching up on work because we really want to make the most of our weekends before the kids are in activities and such.[/quote]

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