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@Cherrybee: Haha, right?

@looch: @Cherrybee: My brother and I pretty much only did activities through our school, so my parents didn't have to really worry about driving us around that much (except for evening and weekend things like boy scouts/girl scouts/sporting games). But during the week, we'd pretty much just stay after school to do whatever activity we had. And the schools always had people on hand to watch us until 5:00/5:30 when parents could pick us up.

ETA: I should say, we each had one non-school related activity that we did. My brother was in boy scouts and I was in girl scouts and then took piano lessons once a week. Since all our other activities were through the school, it didn't seem like my parents had to do a TON of driving around - just picking us up late a lot.

@Cherrybee: having them close in age has definitely been challenging. DD #1 is still going to daycare 4 days a week while I'm on maternity leave. DD #2 is 11 weeks old and the days I have them home together it does get stressful sometimes, they always need me at the same time. However #1 is at the point where she can play by herself for 15 mins as I tend to #2.

I've read that research in maternal and family health supports 18-24mo as the ideal break from birth to new pregnancy. So between births that's like 2.5yrs? No personal experience yet.