how do you find the time!

**Donkey** · 04-04-2008, 08:04 PM

to do everything!

i am really out of shape when it comes to trying to work full time and then do the cleaning and washing after. I am trying to get into a routine now whereas I do the hoovering and dusting when LO has gone to sleep. I make df do the tea pots before he slumps for the night rather than leaving them for me the morning after. but the washing i try and get done during the day because there is sooo much of it! little tike that she is, rather good at pooing out of the side of her nappy. don't know how she does it as they are fixed on correctly. its like the nappy explodes lol

that will be the fruit and veg i am trying her on....

im pretty sure that once I get going I will need to do a lot more cleaning than I am doing now.

what do you do? How often do you do it?

please fill me in!

**Trouble** · 04-04-2008, 08:08 PM

its very hard and thats all i can say

but some how you find the time

i havent got a little one of my own mine are 14 and 11 but if i did i dont know where i would fit it all in

i hoover everyday apart from fri and sat but i now polish every 3 days (used to do it everyday) and i do the rest when i have the energy and before i joined the forum

paperwork is fits and starts

just do the best you can and hubbys need to be involved too to make it easy for you

**katickles** · 04-04-2008, 08:30 PM

I'm really lucky. Lo i mind (17mths) loves & i mean loves the washing machine. So mines constantly on!!!

I only have wooden floorboards so they are swept a few times a day really. In some rooms anyway!!

I also have a dishwasher - THANK GOD - oh & i don't just mean the hubby!!

**Tily Bud** · 04-04-2008, 08:35 PM

I mop the kitchen and hoover the living room every day before the mindees arrive, then the rest is done as and when I find so long as you keep on top of it its ok , its just when you let it slip like at the weekends it takes longer to get it all clean and tidy again x

**Trouble** · 04-04-2008, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by cheryl1

I mop the kitchen and hoover the living room every day before the mindees arrive, then the rest is done as and when I find so long as you keep on top of it its ok , its just when you let it slip like at the weekends it takes longer to get it all clean and tidy again x

that is so true about the weekends

**Donkey** · 04-04-2008, 09:05 PM

i have laminate flooring everywhere and 2 cats as well, this means I will have to hoover and mop at least once a day I think.

need to get myself a new easymop i think

**sarah707** · 04-04-2008, 09:45 PM

I get my children to help me quite a lot... but my 2 are a lot older. I think when they were young I was just permanently exhausted!

**Lou** · 04-04-2008, 09:54 PM

If you have wooden/laminate flooring then get oneof those swifer things and just sweep it all to one side regularly throughout the day and then hoover up last thing!!!

Pipsqueak · 04-04-2008, 10:02 PM

The worst bit is trying to fit in time to come on here and then once you do its not the minding that takes the time up and you neglect your housework its the forum addiction!!

**Donkey** · 04-04-2008, 10:48 PM

pmsl, we have wireless up and running.....

must not take the laptop down stairs whilst minding, must not.....

although, if i get wireless printing on the go, daily diaries all printed out.
nice!

**Minnie Minx** · 04-04-2008, 10:52 PM

I don't even want to think about how i'll cope lol, i haven't got any kids, there's just me and my two cats and my flat is constantly messy. My lounge tonight looks like a sewing/material bomb has been dropped

xxx

**Twinkles** · 04-04-2008, 10:53 PM

Get a cleaner

**Minnie Minx** · 04-04-2008, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by Twinkles

Get a cleaner

Hmmm wonder what my mum will be doing

xxx

Pipsqueak · 04-04-2008, 10:58 PM

Nutter here has just offered to help my friend out - she is pregnant with number 10 and has that burning shins condition at the moment.
I offered to do some of her (2wk) pile of ironing!!!! I have got a 2wk pile of ironing myself.....

**Minnie Minx** · 04-04-2008, 10:58 PM

10

xxxx

**Twinkles** · 04-04-2008, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by Pipsqueak

Nutter here has just offered to help my friend out - she is pregnant with number 10 and has that burning shins condition at the moment.
I offered to do some of her (2wk) pile of ironing!!!! I have got a 2wk pile of ironing myself.....

has she found out what's causing it yet ???