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[quote=Anonymous]Dual WOH parents, kids 8 and 5.

7:30 We all get up, except 8yo who we let sleep until a few minutes before 8
8:20 or so--we all leave the house.  8yo prefers school breakfast so doesn't eat at home.  School is 2 blocks away.  DH usually does drop off, but sometimes me.
9:00 or so--arrive at work
We take turns doing pick up.  When it is me, I leave work at 5:10 or 5:15 to make it to aftercare by 6:00.  When it isn't me, I leave work at 5:45 to 6:15 and make it home by 6:30 to 7:00.
Most nights, DH makes simple dinner for the kids who eat at about 7:30--chicken tacos, scrambled eggs, quesadillas, pasta, something like that with a microwaved frozen vegetable side.  We do family dinner on Sunday and maybe one week night.  I regret that we don't do family dinner more often, but I don't regret it enough to limit my dinners to what the kids will eat/ what we can prepare in 15 minutes.
Bath, toothbrush, stories after dinner for my five year old, whose bedtime is about 8:30, though he is up for up to an hour after that playing quietly in his room and occasionally cheerfully popping downstairs.
The 8 year old then has a bath, reads, hangs out, has a 9:30 bedtime.
Grown ups have dinner late at 9:30 or even 10, but worth the wait as my DH is an awesome cook (and is in charge of all food prep).
Then I clean up after dinner, and we read or play online or watch a tv show together (which I often fall asleep during) and go to bed at midnight or 12:30.
We have a messy house and weekends do have a lot of things like grocery shopping and laundry and picking up.  We have cleaners every two weeks and so I don't really do cleaning like vacuuming and bathroom scrubbing, as every two weeks keeps it up to my low standards.
I don't find this schedule to be that punishing.  There are weeks when I have to get back online in the evening to work and that makes it rough, but if that is not happening, I find this to be a good rhythm.[/quote]

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