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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need a nanny house manager - ours does everyone’s laundry, makes dinner for the family, gets groceries, runs random errands, etc. She may not be able to do this now, but as your kids get older and start preschool/elementary school this will be more possible. When we travel, she mostly gets time off, but i have had her also drop us off at the airport, and/or come once or twice while we’re gone to grocery shop and meal prep. Can’t tell you how nice it is to come home to a clean house (when we left it a mess due to packing w three kids) and dinner in the fridge after a long day of travel. [/quote]
This. We've had this since our first was 5 mos old. We set expectations up front and pay well. The things that eat up time are not the regular tasks taht you can hire for, it's the one-off errands. If you have FT help, it's silly not to ask them to do this. There will be days when the kids are too demanding and they can't. But most things (e.g. run some laundry) are only hands on for a few minutes. And kids can participate in folding laundry (even if they are just playing with a few socks) from a very young age. They also love seeing all the colors at the grocery store.

What do you think SAH parents do? They have to care for kids and manage the household simultaneously.[/quote]

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