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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, can your MIL handle your DD solo for a few hours every weekend? That way, you and DH both get solo time at once, and the rest of the weekend you spend together as a family? I agree solo time is important, but when both parents work FT, there is not a lot of quality time during the week, so weekends are precious.

I also don’t think your solo time should be spent on home organization or grocery shopping or working. Do the errands together, the three of you. And keep weekends free of work (or alternatively designate 3 weeknights to keep free of work). Spend your solo time in r&r mode.[/quote]

I said the same as above. Look around the grocery store and Target on a Saturday morning, it's all kids with their parents. Why waste your time alone doing what could be done with the kid. My kids all loved going to Target, by the way. And do grocery delivery. Order school crap from Amazon. This doesn't have to be as hard as OP is making it out to be. But she really seems to want to maximize the victimhood. Her precious Saturday morning time is being squandered this way.[/quote]

I don’t agree with the things you said about OP. She is probably trying to fit in the errands during her solo time so that she can do enriching activities with her child. It is a natural impulse and I did similar as a first time mom. But later I realized, a trip to the store can be nearly as enriching as a museum trip if you talk about what you are shopping for, converse with each other. I would not do it by myself, but with both parents it is easy so that one parent can focus on shopping, one on interacting with the kid, and they can tag each other in and out. It is family time and they simultaneously get errands done.[/quote]

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