Thank you for your reply Tobias,
I am glad to hear that your post is still valid and that you have made considerable progress. Your caring for your family is honourable and deserves respect.
I have been doing 45 minutes of formal meditation on the tilakkhana almost every day since the beginning of February and have also done metta meditation a few times. Before I discovered puredhamma, I was essentially doing breath mediation, for which I now feel really foolish.