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First Grade is Exhausting

I don't know about the girls, but 1st grade is wiping me out!  I get home from work between 6:15 and 6:30.  Dinner is usually waiting for me (I feel like a husband in the 50s) and Paul and the girls have usually just finished.  Sometimes they wait for me, but that's pretty late for the girls to eat so it doesn't bother me if they eat earlier.  After I/we eat I clean up, and by then it's about 7:30.   The next hour is just a whirlwind of getting things ready for the next day and helping the girls with their homework.  Sometimes they've already done it by the time I get home, but even then they still have 20 minutes of reading every night and lately it seems there is always some project or another that we have to help them with.  I feel like I'M back in school and it's killing me.  I long to be able to just come home from work and chill and not have to spend the next 2+ hours cleaning and doing homework.  So different from when I was their age.  I never h