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[quote=Anonymous]We have days or even weeks where we are in a good rhythm and I can be at 50%, truly focused on work when at work and in the moment with kids when they are at home. Weekends are a great mix of catching up on my own business, ferrying kids to things they want and need to do, and fun family time. We have a sitter scheduled, miraculously no one is sick, DH and I go out. Or I have a work trip, DH manages fine, and vice versa. Lots of stretches like this where things feel balanced.

Then there are days and weeks when I'm on a teams call and the school number pops up on my phone, DH and I have to play rock paper scissors on who is going to pick up the sick kid, I'm shuffling around appointments and special needs therapies between meetings, researching some kid related thing in a browser while I'm on a call, distracted by some perseverative loop about a family issue, ordering next size up shoes because I know I won't have any other time. Then I come home and our youngest immediately goes chaos monkey and the whole evening is just survival. One of them gets up in the night and is a grump in the morning, we're late to the bus stop. Lather rinse repeat. Those are 100% days. It all seems to come in fits and spurts.[/quote]

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