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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Up your cleaning services so you aren't doing bathroom/kitchen cleaning on weekends.

Teach the 12yo to do laundry and have one night per week that they are responsible for getting their laundry done (whatever night that kid is not in sport/activity).

Apprentice the 7yo into laundry so that they do laundry under supervision on another weekenight.

Set up carpooling with other families in the sport or activities. See if you can't figure out a way to cut down the amount of running around that costs you. Ditto on your school drop-offs -- is there a family nearby ALSO doing two schools? Can you streamline so you swap kids and one family takes the ES kids and one family takes the MS kids?

I'd also try to flex things so you all eat dinner together. That might mean that Sport Kid gets a heavy snack and then leftovers, but the rest of the family sits down to dinner together.

School lunch (or at the least, teach 12 yo to make their own lunch).[/quote]

12yr and 7yr both fold and put away their laundry, [b]but they are too small to reach inside washer so can't do it end to end.[/b]

We carpool when we can, but we live on the edge of our school district, so people tend to passively exclude us from carpools (oops, sorry we are already full).   Same with ES/MS -- there just aren't any kids where we live, part of why we dont want to drop sports etc.

They do pack their lunches mostly, except when we make hot lunch.

We are happy to see at least we are "normal" when we feel like we are so inept -- I think most of our DCs friends have SAH or PT working moms, so they have a very different lifestyle and seem so relaxed, have amazing looking homes, and just have more fun.  I guess we just don't run into many other FT WOH parents in our area, for whatever reason.  They aren't in SACC, they aren't on the sports teams, its kinda mystery![/quote]

Wait, what?    Too small to reach into the washer?   My kids were able to reach into the washer before they were 5.   How does your 12 year old manage to do sports?[/quote]

We have a DEEP top loader washer, I’m 5’5” and barely snag the items from the bottom on my tippie toes. And yeah the kids are short. [/quote]

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