What about doing enough ironing to get you through 2 or 3 days at a time? You might end up with one busier night, but then you have 2 nights with more time for cuddling on the couch! We do a bulk iron and hang stuff up in the spare room wardrobe where there is lots of space and it doesn't get recrushed like it would in our normal wardrobe.
We also do the alternating jobs - one does bed while one washes up.
I try to fold the washing while supervising bath time.
Could you bring forward the toy tidy up so DS can help with that? although he's probably a bit small for that.
I'd also be saving up washing for the weekends or the days off. I tend to do 4 loads over the weekend and just a catch up one during the week so there's enough socks and undies to go round (we both work fulltime).
And definitely stock the freezer with food. We have at least one reheat meal a week, if not two and have our standard ones that can be pulled together in 20 minutes. A reheat is so easy if all you're doing is rice/pasta and a bit of a salad to go with it 9or if you're DH, save time and don't worry about vegetables!)
Just an added note, we are trying something new this week. On Friday night we cooked a 2 nighter meal, ate one and froze the other. We did the same thing on Saturday and Sunday night. We now have enough meals to get through til Thursday night (we go to the in laws for dinner every Wednesday). It made a huge difference to our time today - no preparation and barely any cleaning up!
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