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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a SAHM with three kids in elementary school. DH does the trash once a week and handles all the mornings with all the kids. And he does 50/50 of the other stuff in the evenings/weekends when he is home. Pretty much anything that can be done during the school day, I do. But he definitely pitches in while he is home - I almost always cook dinner and he’ll do the dishes while I get kids teeth brushed or hair washed. He’ll read with one kid while I read with another etc. I can’t picture him just sitting on the couch while I’m running around doing everything with three kids! He also does his own laundry most of the time, and unloads the dishwasher almost every morning and makes the coffee. He is much more handy than I am, so he may fix things around the house (or I’ll hire someone to do it). If a kid’s bike breaks, that’s definitely his territory. Anything outside he does too - holiday decorations, yard work. We hire out most of the yard work, but if we need to trim a bush or whatever, he’ll do that on weekends.

But things that I can do in advance, I do. I do all the making of all the appointments and taking kids to the appointments (Dr, dentist, orthodontist etc). I schedule all summer camps and the after school activities and do all the driving, unless we end up with two at the same time and he will drive one kid, or I will plan a carpool. I take the cars in for all the various inspections and hire plumbers/electricians and repair technicians. I do all the grocery shopping and meal planning and and the kids laundry and buying all the clothes and all the shoes and the coats and the sports equipment and birthday presents. I handle most of the adult social stuff too - almost all of our friends were made through me and the kids.

We are a good team and work to our strengths. He is a morning person so that’s why he does all the morning stuff, but I do what I can to make mornings run smoothly. I pack lunches and lay out outfits and get book bags ready and usually get breakfasts sorted out so he just microwaves stuff I made the night before and pulls out pre-cut fruit. Then I clean up from breakfast. [/quote]

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This is us, except our kids are high school, middle school and elementary. [/quote]

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