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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm not sure there's any magic formula here other than doing less. Workouts are great but if you traded your 30min workout at lunch 2x/wk for running a couple of errands, you might free up more weekend time. Same for your husband.

I also don't get the school pickups - if you have a 12yo, they are plenty old enough to come home alone and watch the younger kid for an hour or two. Do you really not have a school bus option? We do split shifts and didn't use aftercare for a variety of reasons, older kid babysitting has made life so much easier.

Finally 90 percent of all errands can be done via online shopping. Fighting traffic to get into a Target parking lot is a huge waste of time.

Your schedules are pretty normal; but you need to recognize that you're choosing to spend your non-work time on errands, school driving, and workouts. If you want to choose differently, you can.[/quote]

Also, weekends are mostly cleaning heavy rather than errands, though DH spend half a day running back and forth to Home Depot as he try’s to fix the broken thing of the week. [/quote]

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