flipnastic
Proud Parent
Just wondering if y'all have any tips as the compitions become more frequent, the hours become longer, etc? How do y'all juggle it all?
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Ha! I think I need wine just from reading all of these!!!! Lolol!!!Oh where to start, you do the best you can.
Hopefully the gym is good about communication and plans in advance. So you can request the days off.
Crockpot, freezer meals, bathch prep, meal planning, leftovers, takeout, get the family fed.
Carpool
Creative scheduling with work.
Then deep breathes and wine.
I always figure that happy kids are worth more than clean floors or bathrooms.
Love the clean floor and bathrooms comment. But man oh man...if I had to pay a dollar a minute for driving....we'd be living in a yurt in a meadow with the bunnies and the buggies....I am lucky to live in an area where a "child transportation service" is available -- I found it through the all-powerful Google. Basically two moms who are licensed/insured/bonded/background-checked as limo drivers who operate a business that specializes in getting a child from place A to place B. Since it is only those moms, I know who is driving my DD. They are great about being flexible. They pick her up at school or home and drop her at the gym. They charge basically a dollar a minute for driving (or waiting). It is the only way that we can make this work as we couldn't find a compatible carpool (DD is at a different school from her teammates). Either my husband or I can pick her up after practice. Meets require occasional vacation days but mostly just a realization that there will be weekends where stuff just doesn't get done. So the house is always a mess the week after a meet and the laundry gets done on the fly. I always figure that happy kids are worth more than clean floors or bathrooms. And yes, the crockpot is a wonderful invention. As is making sure your partner is just as capable to cooking dinner as you are.
OMG, don't you sometimes feel like you own the village?Lots of crock pot meals, we car pool in the evenings. Dd is 4hrs/5 day per week. It's tough. It's a family sacrifice. We all have to work together. It definitely takes a village!
Seriously! Every time I'm running especially late- which is almost always thanks for the stupid traffic. Ugh. Seriously, today it was 80 minutes to pick her up from car pool, and that was only halfway to the gym! I'm very grateful that carpool meetup is at a gas station.. I need to fill up every other day!OMG, don't you sometimes feel like you own the village?
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Seriously, for those commuters...how frustrating is it when you get in the car to grab your child and head to gym and realize that drat it all there is no gas in the car again and of course this only happens on the days where you are hard pressed for time............