Minus the commute you had to do most of that anyway though, right? We get my four year old ready and walk her to school (city free pre-k a few blocks away, plus paid aftercare).

It takes about an hour to get breakfasted, dressed, and ready which we would be doing anyway. Counting the walk both ways it's about 30 minutes of extra time for 8 hours of childcare.

Unless your commute is just huge I can't see that math being true.

You got 8 hours out of it, we get maybe three - because of how it works out.

Add in infants and toddlers, and the fact that many places seem to do childcare for a very particular age range, and it can get hectic.

Workable, of course, anything is, but hectic. It can be understandable why people look at it from the outside and say "wow, that's a lot of kids, too many for me."

Yeah, haha fair. Even my friends with two look noticeably shell shocked most of the time. Good luck =)

Two kids are exponentially harder than one. Apparently it gets easier with three, but definitely not worth checking that out.