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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure why it's so hard to do errands with toddler. Our DD is now 22 months, but I've been taking her on errands since she was 3 months old, every afternoon. The people at the bank, post office, and Giant know her pretty well by now. Today we went to CVS to get some stuff while walking around and looking at things, then off to Giant where she helped pick what to make for dinner (pizza.. but scratch-made except the crust). If she's going to be fussy, we go to the salad bar and I let her munch on a cucumber slice while we shop.

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To be fair, some toddlers are easier to run errands with then others. I have had four and one at that age was a total PITA, loathed strollers and shopping carts, wanted to walk, etc. But OP has a lot of time to run errands solo. I think they have a very odd family dynamic. No one seems to want to be with each other.[/quote]

OP here.  Why do you think our family dynamic is odd?  I don't get that.  The issue is that with husband working 2 weekends per month (traveling for work), we only have 2 weekends for "family time."  In the warmer months there are more things we enjoy doing together--parks, festivals, fairs, day trips, etc. but in the winter months I really can't think of anything that we could do that would be "family time."  [b]My husband likes to have father-son time alone with our son since he barely sees him during the week, so they go to different activities together on the weekends in the morning.[/b]  I don't really see what the point is of me tagging along to these since I do them all week long, you know--playgroup, gym class, etc.  We don't have any local family to visit, which could be a good family time activity.  We used to take our son out to restaurants until the last few months, when that became a lot more difficult and unpleasant, so we don't go out to restaurants as a family anymore. So I guess I don't really have any ideas on what could be family time with a toddler in the winter months.  Toddler is 14 months.[/quote]

[b]How is your husband taking your toddler on father-son outings on weekend mornings when he's sleeping in both mornings and you're on child care duty until 3pm?[/b][/quote]

I was wondering the same thing.[/quote]

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