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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hire out everything that you can

Family breakfasts a few times a week (before the day gets crazy and you get stuck at work)

Re-evaluate every 3-6 months if this is still the best plan for your family. In between doing this, let yourself off the hook on guilt. Just do what you have to do [/quote]

Thanks. I usually leave for work by 7 and my daughter isn't up until 8 or 9 most days.  I usually arrive at work with demands already under way, so breakfast together isn't going to work.  I do have a cleaner come once a week.  I haven't given up cooking yet because I actually enjoy it.

This is the only way we will ever be able to pay off student loans and afford a home any time in the next 10 or so years, so reevaluating means giving up that dream. Before this, I was making five figures because my field is very feast or famine. DH makes five figures.  I think I can push through for one year, but nights like tonight when DH tells me my daughter just said a new word make me want to give up.[/quote]

You're doing this for one year, right?  Just get through it and count down the clock. Have dh take videos every day of your daughter. Maybe have her sleep in bed with you at night, or in one of those co-sleeper things. Just being physically near each other is comforting, even if you're both asleep.

I would try to keep your spending low too. You want to come out of this with as much money as possible. I did it for three years and it was horrible. Even worse, in the end it didn't pan out financially the way I thought it would. [/quote]

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