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[quote=Anonymous]I have two young kids - I work full-time -- from home on Mon, and in office Tues-Fri.  DH is 100% WFH, but truly unavailable (nature of his job, not bc he sucks) until about 6 each day.

It's a huge priority for me to have open and relaxing weekends -- free from cooking, cleaning, errand-running, etc.  It's silly nonesense that weekends with young kids have to suck.   :roll: Ours are filled with family outings, hanging out around the house, some classes, friend meet-ups, date nights, etc.  I made a lot of purposeful choices and do a lot of things to ensure this:

-- switched to a more flexible job when my oldest was about 1, and then arranged with TPTB at work that I can leave at 4 (given the flexible nature of my work, this was NBD).  I'm home by 4:30ish.  
-- huge rotation of simple weeknight meals that truly take me like 20 minutes to get on the table.  Got my older DD used to helping (she thinks it's fun!) and got my younger DD placated with ipad time and a snack (duh, she thinks that's great too, it's really her only screen time during week).  Getting these dinners on the table with this routine is not stressful; it's actually kind of a nice part of our day.
-- get groceries delivered (for me it's Monday afternoons when I'm WFH -- works great)
--DH and I have a laundry schedule that we do during weekdays...
--biweekly cleaning lady; otherwise we just, as we go, do things like sweep, roomba, wipe down eating/cooking surfaces, tidy up and put away "stuff", and we are fine with that level of clean (no pets)
--order tons of stuff online, and otherwise run errands when I get free moments at work.

I understand that everyone's situation is different, but even if I had to scramble in the weekday evenings to make dinner or had to feed everyone cereal each night, there is noooooooo way I would spend all day Sunday meal prepping, etc. for the week.  Not only is it "no fun", but now you're missing out on even more QT with your kids.  It sounds like you too are not happy with the model where you sacrifice Sunday prepping for the week, so YOU should change it, even if others would be fine with that trade-off.

Try to see what changes you can make, OP, to do more during the weekdays, and get that weekend time back!!  At the very least, don't make FOUR meals on Sunday!  Instead make two and double them -- freeze and have the other half the next week (get a rotation going so you don't have to duplicate meals in a given week).  Or add in a take-out or pizza night, really NBD!  Start looking for really simple weeknight meals (i have plenty I could share).  Get groceries delivered.  Family mealtime is important to me too -- but for a few years when it was just my older DD, we would sit with her while she had a kid dinner, and then DH and I would eat later.  That could be an option too -- actually sit at the table with your kids while they eat something the nanny has prepared, and you eat later.  
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