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[quote=Anonymous]So if you and your spouse both have fairly inflexible jobs, are you comfortable with:
- someone else (nanny / grandparent) - taking your kid to routine doctor and dental appts
- your kid not always having someone at every school performance
- you kid having someone else help them get ready for school or eat dinner with them on a routine basis (not everyday night but not like once a month either)

None of that would be okay with me. DH and I often go back to work from 8pm-midnight, but we still make sure we spend 5pm-8pm with our kids. I'd cancel on pretty much anyone to be at one of my kids' performances. The only reason one of us misses a performance is if our kids' schedules conflict. DH was at a sports playoff with DS while I was at DD's dance performance. And we were both upset we missed the other.

Things that I let go:
-cleaning my house myself
-cooking dinner myself
-yardwork
-errands (I even paid someone to go get new tires put on my car)
-both of us are not always there for the morning routine. Sometimes one of us needs to get into work at 5am or so.
-kids only get 1 or 2 activities at a time or none (bless my youngest for not liking activities)[/quote]

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