Kids watch Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, etc., and I watch Rockets' games as they watch their own stuff and that's good time away from each other or when I can work on hobbies. Won't happen, sir. I WATCH ROCKETS GAMES. I play video games with my daughters and we all play four-player games as a family. That's quality time for me. They are my photography models and with whom I learn more photography. They learn, too. It would be a bad choice to drop that. In this economy? Good luck. No thanks. I'd rather get a steady job instead of living check-to-check or wondering if a "close-to-home job" will fold. We ARE working on moving at 1/2 the current distance from their school and our work, though... how about that? Happy? Can't get more flexible than the 200+ sick or 300+ vacation hours I have. Plus, I don't punch a clock in. They like that when they want me to attend an activity of theirs, I do and my boss is COOL with it. We already have those. Why would they hike?
I just wanna say that My Fit Foods is awesome. Expensive, but still awesome. It's a ritual to eat it everyday for lunch.
I just say that because I've got a lot more than a load or 2 of laundry to do and a lot more than 10 minutes of folding and putting away of clothes. Granted, I have 4 kids, so it's worse than most people's. But still I don't see how anyone with kids doesn't get overburdened with laundry. I make the older kids help with cleaning, but they're pretty worthless honestly. It slows me down to have them help. Hopefully, some day it'll all pay off.