I feel incredibly lucky in this area.
A little over a year ago my job changed so that I’m primarily work-from-home (when I’m not traveling). So, there are a LOT of days that I can have breakfast, lunch and dinner with my kids.
Whenever I’m in town and they have a school event I can usually carve out some of my day (my hours are flexible—just so long as the work gets done) to attend.
I always used to make effort to be there for kid events..but now I’m frequently the “room mother” who leads the party at school.
Even before that all changed I’ve always been my middle daughter’s Girl Scout troop leader, the assistant den leader for my son’s Cub Scout troop (my husband is their den leader) and we teach Sunday school for our middle daughter’s class. (She’s a painfully shy kid—so having us involved in her activities has made it possible for her to do a lot of stuff.)
So..we get a LOT of quality time with our kids. Makes me very happy…happy that they still want us around and happy that our house is often filled with their friends..