Just curious how you all do it?????

I am feeling so overwhelmed lately not sure if it is just there age etc not sure.

For one thing they do not listen ever any ideas????

Do you run your house like a school/daycare? I am VERY organized (room for improvement), I like schedules, I plan most thing ahead etc. I just don't know how some people keep up with every day chores and plus to extras.

I know school will be here in another year and that will help but I just need to get through this next year and try to stay sane.

Do you plan meals a week at a time etc?

I do fortunately have my mother and mother in law that help out tremendously and my mother even comes regularly every other week to help clean my house etc.

Money is tight these days with rising costs in everything so we can go run around town daily plus we live out in the sticks.

Do any of you do set activites with the kids daily? If so how do you do that yet keep up with meals, laundry etc. I know I have done this for 3yrs now and why am I having troubles now??? Not sure!

I also know before having kids I was a big perfectionist and I still am and need to let some things go. I feel I am constantly thinking of all the extras I need to do and it make me tired, crabby, and etc.

I get one room organized and then a few days later it is back to the way it was, how frustrating!

Also I know I need more sleep I stay up later after the kids go to bed because it is my down time and I should go to bed at a decent time so I do get some sleep. My other downfall is that I don't get up before they do and I know I just need to train myself and I would feel better if I did do that, I think!

Also if I am tired I am more irritable at them and have less patience etc.

Thanks so much for listening to my babbling!!!

Ang

GGG born 32wks
G singleton born 38wks

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No answers here, but I wanted to let you know I have been feeling over whelmed lately also. Just recently I started feeling like the house was always a mess only a day after I had it sparkling, even though the first two years I had it looking pretty good most of the time.

I am feeling overwhelmed with to-do lists and money is tight here also. Since they started preschool, I have nothing to do for the hour and a half since I don't want to spend any money.

Do you have them signed up for any classes? Or just a planned activity to get them out of the house often? Even going to a park for a picnic lunch is a good way to kill 2 hours. Do you have family near you? Maybe start doing dinner at their homes once a week. Life is good when we go to my parents on the weekends. Kill some time on Sat and usually Sun night dinner there. Just anything to get us out of the house is good to give the kids a change in scenery.


But everything you wrote, I feel it too. Life is crazy right now and it is made more chaotic by a messy house and piles of laundry. I feel your pain and am interested to see how other organize a crazy life.

Laura & Don
BBB 5/05
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hi ang
you've caught me on a bad day...no advice but plenty of sympathy!

i don't know...having the kids in school doesn't necessarily free up more of my time i am finding! committees, volunteer work, plus Bible studies, and then there are the kids activities, taking them to playdates as their circles widen and grow.... oh if there were more hours in the day. there are committees and causes galore, and every single one of them will want YOU!

seriously, last night my husband was in hospital with chest pain (found an enlarged right aerota) and all i could do was snap at him that he hadn't gone to a more efficient hospital that would have tested him sooner. i am such a cow.


tess
mummy to 6yr old ds & the triumverate born 2004

"the days are slow but the years fly by quickly"

Tess - I'm sorry to hear that your husband's having problems, but at least they caught it, right? What are they doing to fix it?

Ang - I have relinquished all control of certain things to my kids: what clothes they wear, how messy their room gets during the day, how much they eat.

Then I can focus my energy on doing other things like cleaning the rest of the house, reading books to the girls and doing art projects with them, etc... the things that I really want to do.

Loren
GGG Jan.2005 @ 28wks

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I'm starting more structure here, we are doing in home preschool, and certain days of the week we are doing specific things at home. Music on Wednesdays for example - paper towel tubes make great instruments.

I had used a 30 minutes on 30 minutes off for awhile and am amazed at how much better all of our day goes. I play blocks, read, color, etc whatever we are doing for that 30 minutes with them and then I clean, fold clothes, do dishes or dinner, etc for the next 30 minutes. By the end of the day I have gotten so much accomplished (which makes me calmer and happier) and they have all had me for undivided time too which makes them so much calmer.

Yes, it's a crazy age and we have to totally readjust. I am in the middle of no naps here....how am I going to have time to quilt? lol