maybe doing morning IM chats to go over calendar activities for the day/week
My DH and I have been setting aside some time every week, typically Saturday morning because we have the least time pressure then, to sit down and look at both our calendars and make sure we at least know what our schedules are like for the following week. It helps a lot. He has a tendency to not realize how much time he is allotting to work (outside of his regular work day, I mean) and volunteering for things that takes away from our time to do household stuff or whatever unless we lay it out on the calendar. This way it's not me being responsible for the household stuff and trying to get him to help, we figure out what we'll be able to do together.
I imagine y'all might have more trouble finding that kind of dedicated time what with the kids and all, some kind of electronic check-in via IM sounds like it would be worth trying.
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Date: 2010-03-22 04:59 pm (UTC)My DH and I have been setting aside some time every week, typically Saturday morning because we have the least time pressure then, to sit down and look at both our calendars and make sure we at least know what our schedules are like for the following week. It helps a lot. He has a tendency to not realize how much time he is allotting to work (outside of his regular work day, I mean) and volunteering for things that takes away from our time to do household stuff or whatever unless we lay it out on the calendar. This way it's not me being responsible for the household stuff and trying to get him to help, we figure out what we'll be able to do together.
I imagine y'all might have more trouble finding that kind of dedicated time what with the kids and all, some kind of electronic check-in via IM sounds like it would be worth trying.