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[quote=Anonymous]twins= two babies at the same f*$%ing time!

agree with all the above. we have a 20 month old and a 3 year old and weekend are still tough but we have figured out that things work best when we do a combination of divide and conquer, family time and outsourcing (whether TV or babysitter or whatever). Plus, they get easier and more interesting. 10 months is tough. Do they stillnap 2x/day?

Here's what works for us:

bulk groceries are peapod during the week. Weekends are for dry cleaning, hardware store, things we forgot from peapod, etc. Housekeeper every 2 weeks, but basially our house is messy all the time, and only moderately clean (we keep those clorox wipes in all the bathrooms to wipe up, and vacuum 1x/week).

saturday morning: Dad gets the kids up and out: first breakfast out, then an errand (always a comedy with the both of them) or farmer's market, then the park or building museum or something. Mom helps with getting everyone out the door, then takes an exercise class, showers, tidies up and does some bills or other quiet stuff.
Lunchtime: Dad comes home with kids. Mom does lunch, younger one naps and older one has a combination of playing with mom, 'helping' to cook, and, frequently, a video or two while Mom cooks or preps dinner. Dad goes for a run or does errands, etc.

3:30-5:30  pm: family time: take kids out and basically exhaust them. We like to go to the zoo, now. When our kids were younger we took them for long walksin the double stroller.

5:30 to 6:30 One parent does baths while the other one gets dinner on the table. This is harder with 2 little ones for sure, but maybe you alternate baths nightly. Can you put one kid in a jumperoo or something?

dinner--put kids to bed (for us, this goes from 7:30 to 8:30).

8:30: OPEN BOTTLE OF WINE, sit down with spouse, eat if we didn't earlier, watch a movie, cuddle, have sex, etc. Do NOT turn on computer or check email (a new rule).  Leave dishes until sunday morning.

Sunday: Family time in the morning if possible: trip to a pumpkin patch, out to brunch, to a park, etc. Same deal with lunch and naps although I'll often take the older one to run errands with me while daughter sleeps and DH catches up on whatever. Or DH takes older kid out and I tidy and prepare for week while younger one naps.

We get a sitter on sunday nights about 1x/month--have the sitter come at 6, and finish up dinner/put our kids to bed. We go our for a light bite and come home and watch Homeland or whateer sunday night show is on.

caveat: I rarely, rarely get beyond tidying up the mess that wemake on a daily basis. ANy kind of major house project, cleaning, organiziation happens during rare times like furlough or taking a mental health day. If you think that with 10 month old twins you are going to accomplish anything beyond survival , you have another think coming!!!

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