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It is exactly the fact that everyday is a scramble and requires constant viligance and pro activity. We want to have the kids get home from school and sit down and talk about the day, look over or work on homework, maybe practice piano.

Instead every night is a sprint from aftercare, dinner on table, bath & bed and then chores.

We do stagger schedules but really, but most Feds have core hours 9-330 so with a short commute and pickup kids you home by 430 or 5. Then start cooking dinner for eating at 6, unless you do take out or have really mastered Rachael Ray 30 min meals (does she do them with a preschooler trying to help in a galley kitchen).

Every day is this mad dash. It will get better when's kids are older and can help more with chores, but compare to the option of spending time with DC at school, quiet afternoons to run errands, tidy house, and prep dinner and then the big homecoming where you focus on the kids rather than the frantic must-do-list.

I just figured more people would just move or find jobs where they have more flexibility and time to make something like that happen. I guess many people feel stuck with mad dash like us. [/quote]

This is us too. It is a mad dash daily. Vigilance and constant planning for the next thing. I plan dinner in the morning before I leave for work. I find that I have to conserve my energy at work so I can be prepared for my real life that begins after I clock out.

This is also why on the weekends, sometimes we all just have to stay in our pajamas and do absolutely nothing. That's when we get our family quality time. 
And we do some really awesome vacations so I do think about that in the middle of the mad dash- that we also have some relief in sight. [/quote]

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