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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think almost everyone is missing the point here - yes it is like this OP. It is hectic and hard. Especially with no family to help. You can make some things easier but it’s always a juggle at this stage. A housekeeper or dog walker does not fundamentally change the fact that you have a lot of responsibilities. It is particularly hard if you both have demanding jobs. Flexible jobs are worth their weight in gold at this phase but you still only have so many hours in a day.[/quote]

This. I think part of what’s hard is that I expected for some reason that things would get easier after the baby stage (dumb, I know).

My kids are also 4 and 7, both boys, and the last 3 years of my life have been the absolute hardest. I can only handle one hour or one day at a time. I don’t know when it gets easier.[/quote]

The way to make it easier is either one parent goes part-time and then has a huge chunk of free time every day to handle household/kid stuff, or you hire someone to help every afternoon/early evening. I do the former, have friends who do the latter and it absolutely makes things easier. That job is groceries/cooking dinner/scheping to activities/homework help/miscellaneous like halloween costumes and doctors appts and stuff.

I think there is just 15-20 hours of household/kid stuff that needs to get done (beyond sitting together at meals and going to bed). Either a parent can do it (very hard with a full-time job, doable with part-time or a stay at home parent) or you can hire someone to do it.[/quote]

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