What kind of errands....

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2005
What kind of errands....
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Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm

Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?

I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-29-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:47am
For one, the option to WOH and not use DC. Another would be WOH without being ever at the ready to drop everything and handle an emergency. Entirely our choice to adopt, but nevertheless they're kid-imposed restrictions.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:48am

So your husband won't plan everything. Can I assume that you and still do the 50% of family activity planning that you did before kids came along? Or did I just discover that maybe one of your issues is - you were accustomed to being 'taken out/on/to' as a rule?

We planned everything together before having kids. After kids my husband became somewhat less usefull in that regard. Didn't do a thing to stop me from planning things for the family to suit myself. I can't imagine why it should have.

I'm sorry that find your children fetter your life. Mine don't fetter mine, and I do have two plus some pets.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:52am

You can't handle an emergency now because you have kids? Wow. I find it a lot more important to be able to handle an emergency now that I have a kid.

There are a lot of people who WOH and don't use DC. So I guess it is still an option.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:53am

My husband never planned anything, before or after children.


Don't be sorry, as I told dogma.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:54am
Your post talked of "lots of families." I was responding to that.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:55am
Perhaps she means that unlike your DH, who can continue to WOH even while there's an emergency with your ds, she could not.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:55am
Either.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:57am
How is it easy or convenient to be active together if you have widely diverging interests?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-29-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:58am
In that case, I can't say I know lots of families who do absolutely nothing. None, actually. I thought you had one particular family in mind.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:59am
"My children were wanted and planned and I'm eternally grateful that I was able to have them both." I certainly am sorry that you have never gotten that #1 and #2 have virtually nothing to do with #3.

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