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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mentor at work has three children and I really look up to her because (as far as i can tell) she does a good job of finding a work/life balance.  I got a chance to casually ask her if she has any tips for working moms and she bluntly said "I throw money at every single problem I can.  House cleaning, grocery & dry clean delivery, landscape contract, i don't make cookies i buy them, i don't go to class parties but i get pizzas delivered to them, i pay a concierge fee at the doctors to have preference, i pay 7.99 to have a button sewed on my jacket instead of taking 20 minutes to do it, I pay anyone anything to save time."  It was so direct and matter of fact I was kind of stunned but Ive been thinking about it for a few hours and I can't help but thing she's right.  How much of my life am I willing to outsource to make it so I have two things to do in life 1.) work 2.) raise my kids.  Interesting food for thought.  I personally think I am going to add a housecleaner (already have a landscaper).  [/quote]

We also outsource almost everything. This allows us to (1) go to work and (2) raise our kids. Makes life much easier not to have to clean the house, do the laundry, iron clothes, sew on buttons, make the kids' meals, change the sheets, mow the lawn, clean up the leaves, etc etc. Really, everything you can outsource, we do. But we make it to all of our kids' events, class parties, doctor appointments, etc. So when we are with them, it's family time, and when we are not, it's professional time. No real errand time.[/quote]

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