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Hi! I am also a working mama. I drop off my son (he is 2) at 7:15 so I can be at work by 7:30. I work 8 1/2 hours (and no, they do not include our lunch in our time as you can see) and pick up my son at 4:15. We like to eat dinner between 5 and 5:30, so thankfully, I have an amazing husband who comes home at roughly the same time I do and we prepare dinner together while our little guy "helps" us. If the "helping" does not work, then my husband and I tend to take a lot of turns with playing with our son and cooking. We like to talk about what we are having for dinner for the week on Sundays. We try to stick with that and have everything on hand for the preparation of the food. We like to go out to eat once a week as a family. After we finish dinner, all attention is on our son. Since we are gone from him for so long during the day, we make the most out of our evenings together. If he wants to play outside, we all go outside together. If he wants to color, we all color together. We love giving him our undivided attention. We have had a pretty tight schedule in our house since our son was only a few months old and this works well for us. If not, my husband and I would be so exhausted by the time morning came that we wouldn't be able to function at work. Bath time and bed time are the same time every night. If we go even 30 minutes over, he would be asleep in our arms. Bath is at 6:30 and lights out around 7:15-7:30. After that, my husband and I do as much as we can around the house (cleaning, emails, mail, etc.). We don't like to do a lot of those things on the weekends because we want to spend as much quality time with our son as possible. And then lights out for us around 9:30. I know this may not be the right schedule for everyone, but we couldn't live without it.