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[quote=Anonymous]This may sound shocking to some, but your experience is very much child and husband dependent. I'm a WOHM now and I ALWAYS cook every meal, with *much* more ease than I did when I was at home with two toddlers.

I'm not surprised its hard for some SAHMs to actually get dinner on the table. Some kids are just really really high maintenance and bad sleepers, and if you have kids like this, even the most basic aspects of life can be challenging, because you are constantly running on zero. Mine were both like that. I didn't have a nap time to rely upon consistently (or more often than not, they never napped at the same time).

The only thing that worked for me at that age was once a week (usually sunday night), after the kid were asleep (and I'm talking 9 pm at night), I'd stay up 4-5 hours and cook 6 different things, along with make up stuff like pancake batter. Then I'd freeze it and take it out, one-by-one.  Day 7 would be takeout/pizza. Lunches would be leftovers. Breakfast would be microwave oatmeal, cereal, or pancakes.

Once my kids turned 3, and I returned back to work, they became much better sleepers, and could self-entertain/play with each for long periods of time.  It became pretty easy for me to make a 30 min dinner right after I got home from work (5:30) if everything was already prepped (which I do over a few hours on Sundays).

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