What kind of errands....

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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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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:17pm

Not to mention that as long as the child is loving the activity and having fun...does it matter if they catch up with their peers?

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:17pm
Again, can't speak for quietmom, but in our family, our children's interests have diverged quite a bit from mine. No way would I choose to go to a professional baseball game, but since DS#2 lives and breathes baseball, that's where we go at least once a summer. And I rank the joys of fishing right up there with, oh, I don't know, a colonoscopy? But we go on a couple of fishing outings a summer because DS#1 thinks it's fun....and neither one of the boys would voluntarily go to a museum show of impressionist painting or the Art of the American Quilt, but they go and manage to halfway enjoy themselves because it's important to me. And DS and all three boys insisted on a detour on our way home from Pennsylvania a couple of years ago to spend a whole day at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, which I would have avoided on my own. We aren't clones of one another by any means -- but we care enough about each other to graciously put up with each other's interests and even, from time to time, enjoy learning from each other.
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:20pm

Problem can mean something other than a difficult situation or an objection or complaint.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:21pm
I wouldn't work 50 or 60 hours a week if I had children and the same DH.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:21pm
No, no, no. I NEVER said that kids don't or shouldn't change anything. Quite the contrary. I'm saying that "change" doesn't equal "cause a problem."
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:22pm
That's not at all what I said. "Juggling" isn't a "problem" caused by a kid.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:23pm
Are you not reading my posts or just hoping noone else will?
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:24pm

Sure, I've had some non-kid-related emergencies. But nothing where I couldn't say I'd deal with it right after work or maybe leave work a few minutes early. And, as you know, I am older than dirt.

When the school calls at 10:00 A.M. wanting you to take your kid home, or your dd calls and says she left her science project at home and would you please go get it and bring it to her for the next period, that's a little more time sensitive. I'm sure you know the drill.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:26pm

I totally disagree.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 11-12-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 1:27pm

Perhaps (as I said in another post)

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