Hi, K.. My children are 20 months apart. I have a daughter who is almost 3-1/2 and a son who is 21 months. Things definitely got easier when my son dropped his morning nap, around 15 months old, so maybe you are there or close. Our days look like this. I get up about 6:00 so I can shower and be ready to go when the kids get up. Both kids now get up between 7-8:30 (every morning is different), eat breakfast, brush teeth, get dressed. Out of the house 3-4 mornings by around 9:00. My daughter has preschool M,W,F, so when we drop her off at 9:15, my son and I either go to a playgroup through Fenton's SKIP program, McDonald's playland, the library, the mall, Target, or VG's. We usually stay out until I pick my daughter up at 11:45. We get home about 12:00, eat lunch, hang out (read, puzzles, play). My son takes a nap around 1:00 (give or take) and sleeps until 3 or 4 (again, everyday is different). I put my daughter down for a nap around 1:30 (we read and color in bed and she usually falls asleep between 2-2:30) and she'll sleep until 3 or 4 (some days she doesn't take a nap at all, though). When they wake up we have snack and then play again. We rarely go back out after naps because I start dinner. My husband gets home around 6:00. We have started a music class through Kindermusic that is Th from 4:30-5:20. Early evenings are definitely the hardest for me. I could use some pointers on getting through the evenings until my husband gets home. Coffee usually works, but I hate relying on caffeine all the time. I don't allow a lot of TV time. Sometimes 8-8:30 when my daughter first wakes up. Then again a short video sometime after dinner, depending on the day. I try to limit no more than 2 hours total per day, but I like to stay under that. I really feel better when I get out of the house. This is my second year being a SAHM, and I've always worked full-time as a teacher, so getting up and out just makes me feel "whole." We occasionally go to the Hartland Pool, and there's a new gymnastics studio that has open gym time from 3-7 on Saturdays. It's called Phoenix Gym and we've done that. Both kids love the in-floor trampoline. When we're just hanging around the house, we play Dora, puzzles, baby dolls, lots of coloring, play doh is a huge hit, sidewalk chalk on a broken down box of diapers. My house is basically a gym, too. I have a playhouse, slide, mini trampoline in the house for physical activity. My daughter also rides her scooter around. This time of year is really horrible, because I refuse to take the kids outside to play in the snow when it's 15 degrees. That's why we go out to "indoor" places to play, but at least the change of pace is good for all of us. About 7:45 p.m. the kids have a snack (cereal or such), brush teeth, read, jammies, upstairs by 8:30. My daughter loves to read herself to sleep, so she doesn't fall asleep until 9 or 9:30. My son will tumble around by himself in his crib and usually is asleep by 9:00. The later nights is probably what keeps them sleeping longer in the mornings. Right now since I don't work, the later mornings are wonderful. Plus, both of them put themselves to sleep, so even though they are falling asleep later, I'm back in the family room relaxing a little after 8:30.