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Evenings aren't so bad at my house because the kids are generally easy to put down, and both of them are usually asleep by 8; so I do some housecleaning/chores after that and then read a little bit until going to bed myself.

Really, I get the most done in the mornings, before the kids get up. I'm usually up at 5 and ready to go by 5:30, which gives me about an hour of uniterrupted time to do the dishes, fold laundry or clean the floors. I try to do dishes, laundry, and picking up every day, floors every other day, and save all my big cleaning for the weekends or the days the kids go to daycare.

Ditto honeybee. If it doesn't get done in the morning, it doesn't get done. Especially now that Lala has her school day slog, our evenings are so packed.

I get home, clean lunch box, start prepping dinner, hopefully squeeze in a walk or run, cook, and after dinner get the kids ready for bed. Mei Mei is asleep by 7:30 every night. Lala is tougher, but once I get her to sleep, I'm exhausted and just veg out watching my politics shows.

Luckily Mr. Jacks gets the dishwasher loaded at night so I can unload it and do laundry in the am! It's a team effort in our household!

Relaxing- what's that?? We get home from work around 7pm (my husband and I carpool and he picks me up from the train). My son (3 months) is usually due for his bottle immediately so we feed him and then hang out for a few minutes. Then it's a bath or changing into jammies and going to bed around 8-8:15. After he's down for the night, we eat, do dishes, get bottles washed, and pack for day care the next day- by that time it's usually 9:45. I'm so wiped that I'm usually heading straight to bed at that point.

We've only been doing this schedule for a few weeks so far but it's been really tough. I hate that I get to spend so little time with my son before he goes to bed. Making his bedtime later would be selfish on my part though and I know that he needs the rest (he sleeps straight through from 8-6). I currently have a 3 hour commute (1 1/2 hours each way) with my job so I am highly motivated to find something closer just so we can return to some kind of normalcy during the week. Eating dinner at 9pm is not working for me :).