Well....oops! My browser seemed to be stuck and was giving errors, yet somehow it seems to have posted three thread now, so hopefully the mods will get that cleared up.
Our biggest challenge right now is that we now have two at home who have jobs, but one "kid car" that they all share. We may next year have three, and so on. The logistics of this are getting a bit crazy. Basically we have been using a family calendar on a white board calendar for everything for years. We use a different color marker for each person. These markers hang on magnetic chains from the bottom of the board so that anyone can add anything to the board. School activities (luckily only one in sports this year in cross country in the middle school, rest are non-sport but still nuts on the schedule), and work times. Each night or morning we basically need to have a planning session to determine where the kid car will be deployed at any given minute. It literally has begun to feel like we're planning a military operation each day. Most days it's fine, but some days it is just exhausting. We want to avoid getting any more cars (three is enough) and my wife an I both work. At times we call in reinforcements (staying with the military theme here), in the form of our regular babysitter, a retired lady who at times we just pay to provide another set of wheels to get someone somewhere (doctor, event, work, etc.). She's reasonable at $10/hour and it tends to be cheaper than another car, but we will spend about $100-$150/month on needing here around for something (sometimes it is just to be home for a repairman, or our diabetic son who is still not quite responsible enough that we trust him for long periods of time, so when he is home sick for example). My wife and I both work, though she is a teacher at a school so summer is a little easier as she is home. We are back into school mode as of this morning with the kids off and with the added logistics of our 18 year old getting her first job at Chipotle, while our 17 year old continues to work at McDonald's.
So that's our story of the month, or week, or day. We'll see if something new pops up tomorrow (always seems to with multiple kids). Hope to hear from ya....