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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]*raises hand* We adjusted our hours to avoid childcare.

My kids' bus picks up at 7:45 and drops off at 3:45. DH gets them on the bus and then commutes ~45 minutes. He works 8:30-5:45ish. My commute is only 20 minutes so I leave the house at 6:40, am at work by 7, and then leave work at 3-3:15ish every day. I handle after school activities, obviously.

I usually do log back in after they go to bed.

We made a conscious decision not to do aftercare because one of my kids is a sensitive introvert and I knew it would be overwhelming for him to be in school for 7 hours and then go to noisy, busy aftercare.

We do have a cleaning lady who comes every week. 
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Do you feel like you get enough family time together on the weekends?  I know we've been spoiled with our current situation so I'm willing to accept that things would be harder if we did something like this and switched our schedules so that one of us handled mornings and the other handled evenings, but I don't want us to always feel behind or out of sync.  We generally spend the weekends together since neither of us really works then so maybe that would be our saving grace.  [/quote]

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