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Here’s something I wish I had figured out sooner:

I can ask a friend to host my children for a morning and offer to host her children for a morning the following week (or vice versa).

I refer to this as the “kid swap.”

gotta love a silhouette (photo credit Margaret Weir)

This is not the only option of its kind. I could ask to leave my kids with a friend or…