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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. 
Thanks for the suggestions!
A standing desk is in the works.

As far as my current budget goes, practically all of my take home goes to raising the kids. The biggest thing by far is mortgage payment on home that meets our needs, in a neighborhood that is wonderful for the kids, in a school district where they are both in academic and world language programs not available many other places. Property taxes are getting high. Probably won’t want to stick around here once they are off to college.
Then: food. Teenagers and inflation. Not much I can do there except do my best to plan and shop well. We almost never eat out. 
Activities: not too bad but they are in sports year round. 
Then their clothes and other incidental items they need for school. 
My point is that the amount I spend on myself and my needs and wants is tiny. So it’s hard to 
get a handle on what kind of budget I will actually need for myself, once the kids are launched and my mortgage isn’t so huge or nonexistent. Obviously if things somehow go wrong or something really unexpected happens, I will not retire at 60 or 62. 
Oh and their dad isn’t much physically present, but he does provide for them financially.[/quote]

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