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I feel like I have been swallowed up by life. It’s not just one thing keeping me busy, as I am sure you can relate. It’s the house. The activities. The meals. The work at church. I have so many balls in the air and none seem to be staying up the way I want. I am feeling so behind I feel stressed about it. I keep thinking tomorrow will be better or next week but it just never happens, or it seems to get worse. I think some of this has been brought by the craziness that was the last few months. That in general has put me behind. I guess I can keep up with life when I am also trying to play catch up.
So here is where I need suggestions (and the lack of my recent comments has me wondering if anyone is left reading). What is you schedule like? How do you schedule your cleaning? One friend suggested doing three loads of laundry a day. She schedules and order to the days that way not any one group gets behind. This sounded interesting because I often find I start with kids laundry and by the time I finish it I must do more. This way my laundry is never getting done. You get the idea. So what do you do?
How do you balance your life? I find myself wanting to play and snuggle and spend time with my twins as they are not in school and will be shortly but I feel stressed doing it knowing how behind I am. I find it hard to enjoy my life as I am constantly feeling overwhelmed and stressed by it all. I don’t want to look back and regret not having spent the time with my kids.
I just need more hours in a day. Got any?
7 comments:
UGH...every mother's dilemma! Unfortunately, my answer won't bring you any solutions. I tend to let the cleaning and laundry get behind because I'm so tired at the end of the day that all I want to do is relax. Most of the time, I'm ok with a house that is a little less clean because I know that I need to relax too. I usually do a couple loads of laundry during the week and then catch up with the rest on the weekends....and sometimes it doesn't get folded right away! I think that playing and snuggling with the kids is much more important:)
I'm pretty much of the same mind as Casey's trio. I kept my house hygienic by hitting it hard on Saturdays, but during the week I was pretty casual about the cleaning. I'd just sort of straighten up at the end of the day and call it good.
As for laundry, I just did it when the hamper was full.
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I'm with Sue, the laundry get's done when I see it spilling out of the hamper, and cleaning mostly gets done during the week, a little here and there. That way our weekends are more relaxed. But come Monday the house is always in need of a good cleaning as it suffers from what I call the weekend hangover.
I am having the same problem! Between pregnancy, 2 kids, working full time, a husband, and Church and social activities I have a rough time! I do 3 loads of laundry but one day of not being home and it puts me behind a week!
we recently got a maid to come in one day a week. really i could use her twice. i just can't keep up. AT ALL.
laundry is still mountain climbing.
i totally get the drowning feeling along with housework and mother duties.
♥ I hear ya!!! I try to keep up on the laundry but it's seems to be an impossible task. Then there's everything else...
I'm glad I'm not alone. I don't really have a schedule and I often feel overwhelmed, but I do have my kids help. Our kids are the same ages, and even though they are young, it surprises me what they can do and what they want to do. If I have laundry that needs to be folded and the kids want to watch a movie, I have them fold their own clothes while they watch. They don't fold perfectly, but the time it saves me is worth it. I also have my kids do one 5 - 10 min. chore each day as well as Saturday Chores that they can do on Friday or Saturday. Again, it's not always perfect because they are still learning, but it helps and means less work for me and more time we can spend together.
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