All my kids will mostly be home with me. DH will be working from home but his job is not as flexible as mine (and he's the primary earner and works 2 times as many hours!) My kids are ACTIVE and our house is small. It is going to be rough! It will last eleven weeks. DH does have some vacation that he struggles to take for "political" reasons but we might be able to be a little strategic about if we are careful! His work is project based.
The trick will be, getting my work done and keeping the little kids occupied. They both have very high strung, active personalities. They are very challenging. My schedule is manageable with zoom school from 8:00 to 12:00 daily and that is when I currently work (plus some afternoons). I don't think that I will be able to keep them as busy this summer and I'm really nervous about it. I might be able to get my mom to watch the littles one day a week. I can work 20 hours in whatever configuration. DH works from 9 to 6. His industry starts late and ends late. He's usually the first one logged in and the last one logged off.
So here's a couple of options I'm considering...
Work in the morning.
Pros: I'm a morning person. Then it is DONE and we have the rest of the day to do what we like... Cons: DH is NOT a morning person. DH isn't great about getting kids going in the morning. Likely scenario is that kids are just lazy all morning. Also, my bosses are busy in the morning and I do best when I can confer with them, which is hard in the morning since they're walking the jobs.
Work in the Afternoon
Pros: We could probably fit in "quiet time" (which we already do) and "show time" (after 4:30) to give me a little bit of a stretch of time to work every day when the kids would be occupied. Bosses would be more available. Cons: I'm TIRED in the afternoons. DH would not be able to help out. That's HIS busiest time of the day too. That would leave mornings as the time when I could do outings with the kids and places we might like to go might be hard to do in the mornings. (Beaches and Parks would be ok but might be trickier to do zoos and gardens that are in LA).
Also, I need to pick some summer school type classes for DS1 and DS2. The math class DS1 would take can either be from 8:30 to 11:45 or 1:00 to 4:15. I haven't figured out for DS2 yet. I'm thinking it would make sense for all of us to "work" at the same time. Or maybe not?
Would love your thoughts!