Working parents vent and Q

[k3am]

Mar 13, 2019 14:33:17 GMT -5 sdlaura said:

I don't know why this came to mind - but wasn't there a past poster who recommended that working couples hire a full-time housekeeper? In addition to a nanny if they had one?

I feel like there was some book on the topic that some past poster (from a couple sites ago...) was always recommending.

Ah, here it is

www.amazon.com/Housekeeper-Cheaper-Than-Divorce-Afford/dp/0967963605

I dream of DH and I can somehow acquiring a 1950's housewife. I'm not sure of how we'd get her, but I'm pretty sure it would be glorious. 

[sdlaura]

Wouldn't that be amazing k3am? I think the whole premise of the book is how you find someone relatively cheap and train them to do things how you like (at least that's what it sounds like from reading the reviews). Maybe I'll buy the book and report back! Though if DH saw me reading it, he'd get worried that it would bankrupt us...

[waverly]

I looked into the local VBS, and they all end at 11:30 am. The only way it would work is to hire a college student for the week to watch them. It wasn't even top of my list, it was hers because her Catholic friends were talking about religious ed. Scratched off the list unless she wants to find a college student.

Also, scratched off the list camps that add more time to my commute. The one GS camp is on the list if I want to be around that week and take that Friday off.

Trying to figure out if there is a playoff week for baseball, then I can book the sleep away camp and our vacation.  Sleep away camp is religious, so nothing I need to do there since he will get religious ed there.

I have a feeling we will run out of time for family camps with our family vacation.

[mustardseed2007]

We do VBS but my sister picks them up. That's the only week we do a part time camp except for when DD did that one dance camp (the theme was Coco's magical guitar and it was the most adorable thing ever).