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[quote=Anonymous]I think getting used to dealing with all of the stuff is just something that you get used to.  Once you get into a routine, it all becomes easier.  I have twins and my wife and I both work long hours. We both leave the house around 7 am, I usually get home at 6 pm with the kids, my wife gets home between 7 and 7:30.  Here are some things that work for us.

Typical morning:

Wake up at 6 am
My wife gets the kids up, feeds them breakfast while I shower
We both get them dressed.
I'm out the door around 6:45 with the kids to take them to daycare.
My wife gets ready and leaves around 7:15 for work

For us the kids wake up pretty early anyway.  We have gotten the morning routine down.  The faster we can get ready, the less traffic there is, the faster we can get to work and more importantly leave work.

In the evening, we feed the kids dinner around 7 pm and put them to bed around 7:30-8:00.  We usually both do housework for about 30 minutes (cleaning up toys, doing dishes, laundry) then I make us an easy to cook dinner.  Lots of easy to make stuff that takes 15-20 minutes tops to cook.  Salads, pork chops + veggies, frozen fish that bakes in the oven, stuff like that.  Meals that cook in the oven by themselves are ideal or that don't require much interaction are ideal, that way you can do the dishes or other chores while dinner cooks.

So around 9 pm or so we eat dinner, watch TV, for a while then we go to bed around 11 pm.

Some other things that help:

1) We buy lots of stuff at Costco. The kids love going there--all the shopping carts can fit 2 kids in them--and you can really stock up on stuff.
2) We have amazon prime and have tons of stuff delivered.  Diapers, diaper genie refills, wipes, pretty much anything we can get to save a trip to the store.
3) We do all of our grocery shopping on the weekend, if we do have to pick up milk or something during the weekend, one of us gets it during lunch while at work.
4) We have a maid that comes once a week to do the heavy cleaning (scrubbing the toilets, mopping the floors, etc)

That said, it is definitely a team job.  Even on the weekends, we often trade off with one person watching the kids while the other does some chore or another.
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