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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is our situation: 5 month old, almost 4 year old with ASD 1, and 8 year old with mild ADHD. Wife stays at home mostly but works 10 hours a week from home. This summer we seem to really be struggling. She takes kids to pool twice a week, middle son has therapy 4 times a week, older son has playdates and soccer and I can see how worn wife is. She isn't interested in child care help because our middle son really can't handle sitters. It would be more work than it's worth. She isn't interested in cleaning people as our house is fairly clean and she doesn't really mind the busy work plus she feels like leaving the house so ppl can clean is harder than cleaning. We do source out all yard work so I can be completely "on" on weekends. Wife goes to our JCC 3-4 times a week for working out and massages but that isn't enough anymore. She really isn't eating meals and she has constant paper work...middle sons IEP and therapy stuff, she's our older sons soccer team "coordinator" so she's always emailing and figuring out the field times and dates etc, our 5 month old is still at a stage where she has a million appointments and all that. It just seems like "too much" yet she isn't allowing anyone to take it off her plate. More like she can't think of ways to lessen the load. She's no martyr and accepts help but its just too many of the jobs seem to only be able to be done by her. We both agreed next year my oldest will go to more camps. He did a few this year but not many and none whole day. Next year we will change that. What else can we do here? I know a lot of this will lessen when school returns but I am afraid what another 5 weeks of this will do to her. I would normally take PTO here and there and work 1 or 2 half days a week but I blew all my time off with the baby. Our parents are both flights away. What am I not thinking of here??? [/quote] I couldn't read what you wrote because you need to break up your paragraphs or write less. I got the basic gist but, it wasn't easy. I would ask your wife whst you could do. What strangers suggest might not what she wants. Good luck [/quote]
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