Ships in the night working patterns

[MonkeyPuddle]

I’m contemplating applying for a job with permanent hours of 6pm - 11pm mon-fri, DP works full time office hours from home, we have two kids under school age, though one starts school this September.
I’m thinking about how it will basically mean we don’t pay for any child care, apart from school holidays, as I will be there before school, to have DD during the day and eat tea together when DP finishes work, we will save around £700 a month, a huge amount of money for us.
But then DP and I would only have two nights a week together, I’m not sure if that’s enough? I know we would both be home, but when he’s working it’s not like he’s free for a chinwag etc.
Anyone have any pearls of wisdom? I keep thinking about how much money we would save….

Have you spoken to him about it? Is it the sort of thing you could do temporarily, say a year, and really focus on saving the money you earn, but where it has a clear end point? Would the two evenings a week allow some good couple time that would fulfil both of your needs within the relationship, or would they be consumed by family outings, birthdays, friend time, kids activities? That's the danger I think, but if you were to plan this all out ahead of time, and both commit to one pocket of time per week that is really set aside for quality time, then it could work! The extra money seems wonderful, that is a huge amount to be able to save each month!

DP, to his credit, is excellent. He’s a very hands on dad and has no quibbles at all about doing bath and bedtime each night, we do it 50/50 now.
Yeah I hadn’t thought about how those two evening would be spent, there could we be monopolies on our time by the wider family. Hmm. Maybe we would need to have lunch together every day, likely we would if we were both at home.

If he can take a lunch hour most days, you would have lunch, and 2 full days/evenings at the weekend.
As a short term thing, it could work quite well.

Why would you need childcare in the holidays? If you dont need term time childcare for the youngest, as you are at home during the day, and DH finishes before you need to leave for work, why do you need it in the school holidays?