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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hire out everything that you can

Family breakfasts a few times a week (before the day gets crazy and you get stuck at work)

Re-evaluate every 3-6 months if this is still the best plan for your family. In between doing this, let yourself off the hook on guilt. Just do what you have to do [/quote]

Thanks. I usually leave for work by 7 and my daughter isn't up until 8 or 9 most days.  I usually arrive at work with demands already under way, so breakfast together isn't going to work.  I do have a cleaner come once a week.  I haven't given up cooking yet because I actually enjoy it.

This is the only way we will ever be able to pay off student loans and afford a home any time in the next 10 or so years, so reevaluating means giving up that dream. Before this, I was making five figures because my field is very feast or famine. DH makes five figures.  I think I can push through for one year, but nights like tonight when DH tells me my daughter just said a new word make me want to give up.[/quote]

I don't necessarily think what you're doing is wrong--I might do it in your circumstances, too. But DH and I both work full-time and until recently, we each made 5 figures. He only recently bumped up to 100k exactly, I'm still at 60k. I work 40 hours, he works 45-50. We own a house in DC and see our kids plenty. Maybe too much. :) We are not rolling in $, and I often wish we made more. But who doesn't wish that? I thank my lucky stars almost daily for the fact that we are able to live a balanced life in this city.

Just wanted to give you an example of a two-income family doing just fine and still able to see the kids. You know, not every house here costs $1 million.[/quote]

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