How do you keep on top of things??

[Lil_Baby_Boo]

So I've been off work a little while now although working from home here and there for cover!

Anyway, since I'm at home I've started doing most the cleaning, cooking, shopping etc. It seems I tidy up and as soon as I turn around Noah's pulled drawers open, got papers out, rummiging through the junk drawer in the kitchen, etc etc. I just can't keep up, I running in circles, getting more stressed than when I was at work!!!

I felt really mean today cos I strapped him in his buggie in front of the telly while I went up and cleaned the bathroom and then popped him in his cot upstairs with pingu (horrrayyy for Pingu) while I made the beds & put the washing away!! I just couldn't have got it done if he was running about throwing things down the stairs and trying to do choo choo down the stairs!!!

I would wait til he's gone to bed but I like that time for me to relax and eat chocolate

What do you do to keep on top of things with your LO about?

 

[princess_bump]

well i'm not sure how i'll get on when maddi's noah's ages and walking around, but now we don't get on too badly, most days i manage to do a couple of wash loads, a couple of rooms, hoovering damp dusting, floors on my hands and knees and always the kitchen. i try to do some everyday, put on a delayed start wash so its done when i get up, and maddi plays/sits with me and we chat and sing whilst i'm cleaning. we normally do this is the morning, have lunch and then go out in afternoon or chill x

 

[Lil_Baby_Boo]

well i'm not sure how i'll get on when maddi's noah's ages and walking around, but now we don't get on too badly, most days i manage to do a couple of wash loads, a couple of rooms, hoovering damp dusting, floors on my hands and knees and always the kitchen. i try to do some everyday, put on a delayed start wash so its done when i get up, and maddi plays/sits with me and we chat and sing whilst i'm cleaning. we normally do this is the morning, have lunch and then go out in afternoon or chill x

You just wait til she starts walking and putting the wash on for you - with the sky reamote in the drum instead of clothes!!!

Before Noah was mobile I was ok, they just turn in to little whirlwinds and come from all directions - Its like 'ahhhh, no', 'stop it', 'yuck, get your hands out the bin!', 'No, don't play with the oven!' Although one things for sure - whilst constantly lifting things outta his reach I'm helping to tone my bingo wings!!!

 

[Tezzy]

i dont keep on top of it at all...sometimes i think colin wonders what i actually do during the day!

i usually clean up first thing whilst rhys is eating breakfast, then i do the dishes after lunch and then i do a big clean at 4pm so its half decent for when colin comes home from work at 5, during the day i do laundry whenever the cycles finish.

im lucky if i make it upstairs to clean the bedrooms

 

[marley2580]

I've got a wee rota, I clean one room a day and then tidy during naps and when she goes to bed. I don't bother with the mess during the day, coz she'd just make it again right after.

 

[lorrilou]

i dont keep on top of it all either. I'd need a about 8 pairs of hands and 6 sets of eyes!!

upstairs is a complete mess, i'll tidy the kids room and when i turn around callum has pulled all the dvds of the shelves. nicole comes in from school and its like a mini hurricane has hit the house!

 

[BurtonBaby]

I feel like I cant keep on top of it either. Especially now that all Erica wants to do is move I have to constantly keep my eyes on her. I've been saying I'm going to clean the bathroom and vacuum for days now, and DH and I have been really busy, he has been working, so finally I asked my brother to come over this evening and just play with Erica while I get some things done. He likes playing with her, and I got some stuff done, so it was a win win. Oh, also, I must confess.. I rarely have to do our laundry.. I do it when we start to get a lot, but usually we drop 2 loads off at MIL's or at my moms, and they do it for us. We live in an apartment, and dont have private washers and dryers, so its really a pain to cart everything to our laundry room, especially if I'm alone with Erica cause I cant carry her, the laundry, and soap and softener.. I'm really lucky.