| I also found it hard to spend "quality" time with our baby during the work week even though I usually can get home at a fairly reasonable hour (6:30 pm). As you say, by then he's quite grumpy and not very responsive. But even though it's less fun, I still try to be with him (usually just holding him and talking/walking around the house - as he is too tired to want to play) just to clock in some face time.
I find that in the early morning (I'm bfing, so I wake up at 6 a.m. to nurse him) he's usually more responsive and in a better mood, so whenever I can, I'll try to play with him then. (But I usually take my cue from him as sometimes he'll want to go back to sleep afterwards, in which case I'll crawl back into bed myself!) |