How do y'all do it?

[Pyretta_Blaze]

This blows my mind. Are you playing at work? Do you stay home while your husband works and play the game while kids are at school? Do you make dinner for the kids.. or does husband? Are the kids in any extra-curricular activities? Sports? Music lessons? Do you not have PTA meetings? Who watches them after school? How does this schedule work?

You must have some secret magic formula for juggling!

It works because I am a night owl and because even though Hubby works full time he splits the at home work with me. I come home from work and we have dinner which Hubby usually cooks since he gets home a couple hours before I do. Sometimes the kids or I cook. There is general hanging out and whatnot and then usually after hubby falls asleep I go play for 3 hours or so. Twice a week I get on a little earlier for Coil. If hubby or kids are still awake generally they take turns sitting and chatting with me or showing me their latest youtube creation while I wait for my party to gather. Weekends we do the major chores, do the shopping and sometimes go out to eat. Once a week is date night so I don't play games we do dinner and/or a movie and just spend time with the hubby.

The kids are 15-20 so they pretty much have their own interests now. They never were really interested in very many school based extracurricular activities. Daughter plays piano, flute and piccolo, eldest son is in Choir and youngest plays guitar. They don't need a ton of monitoring and only occasional carting around to various things. Checking on homework and catching up on the days events doesn't take a ton of time. They are all chatty and like to share.

Additionally I record a podcast once a week and am starting on another every-other week video podcast.

Lately I've taken a break from FFXIV and have been doing a Minecraft challenge together with my kids, my sister, her son and a couple of friends. We hang out all chat on Skype and build our city together. Once a month my family gets together at my sisters house and we make a big lunch and play D&D or board games so I don't usually get to play ffxiv that weekend.

[ApolloGenX]

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That makes sense. I could probably get more time if I was a night owl, but if I stay up late, it kills me in the morning. I can't stay up past 10:30 without suffering in the morning. Sounds like you have it down, and having older kids also makes more sense.

Cheers to you! It sounds like ya'll have a great time!