Tag-Team Parenting: Do You Have a Weekend Marriage?

"I do the laundry," says Joni Maltese Kenny. She and her husband both work outside the home and have a 7-year-old daughter. "I clean the house and I do most of the cooking."

But while Joni believes her husband would help with anything she asked for, she considers herself a "Type A personality - a master juggler. It doesn't bother me at all."

Less Work, More Play

Chores take time away from quality of life. Consider these time-saving tips parents use to carve out more time for family and intimacy:

• "We shop for groceries online - that's a big help." - Joni Maltese Kenny


• "On Sundays, my husband makes big batches of gumbo or chili - things we can freeze and use during the week. Then, when we get home we just add rice." - Diane Higgins


• "I do the laundry, but I pay someone to clean. That's huge for me. Otherwise, I'd be spending all day Saturday in the house cleaning." - Toni Wolf


• "We have a gardener to take care of our property." - Brooke Clark

- Marie Wolf

Resources

Books (click on titles to purchase online from Amazon.com)

• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex, by John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. Helps men and women understand their differences so they can communicate their needs more effectively and give intimacy a chance to grow.
    


• The Weekend Marriage: Abundant Love in a Time-Starved World, by Mira Kirshenbaum, Harmony Books, 2005. A modern marriage guide with advice on how couples can nurture their relationships in spite of their busy lives. A retitled paperback version, The Weekend Marriage: Everything Harried Marrieds Need to Know About Love and Romance, is due out in April from Three Rivers Press.

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