To ask when you manage to do your cleaning when you have small children?

[Mrswoollyfromwoollylane]

I think my house is quite clean and it gets tidied up each day. But I never seem to be able to just relax and enjoy a clean tidy house iyswim? Like today on a cold Sunday I'd like to just be able to put my feet up and watch a film with the kids or play some games, but everything is to be done or so it feels.

I work part time and have two days off a week, but those days I'm at home with a toddler who doesn't nap anymore.

On my days off I get up, put a load of washing on, get ready and take older kids to school then I go out in the morning with the toddler, to stay and play or to the park and shops. My afternoon is then spent cleaning, but this is not an easy task with the little one who is into everything. but I managed to hoover all of the upstairs, dust everywhere and clean the bathroom. This is alongside the usual washing loads, dishwasher, making lunch and dinner, bins, recycling and so on.

All the floors downstairs still need doing, sweep and mop but it seems pointless and impossible at weekends with everyone in and out, the kids toys everywhere. The hob needs a clean but will be cooking shortly anyway.

Despite doing the bathroom on Friday you'd never know it had been done now.

I'll clean the floors this evening no doubt, but the dining room will be minging again by Tuesday because the kids drop food.

It just drives me mad.

My little boy is 2.5, he does play alone and watch tv, he does 'help' too, but I don't know feels some days like the minute I turn my back he falls over or gets into something he shouldn't.

Can you tweak the organised mum method to suit you. I came up with a similar method where my level 1 is tidying as wiping surfaces daily. My level 2 is my set day jobs (Monday washing, Tuesday admin, Wednesday hoover and more washing, Thursday change beds one week and dust the next and Friday deep clean kitchen one week and deep clean bathroom the other week, Saturday washing). My level 3 jobs are decluttering, cleaning windows and skirting boards, pulling out sofa etc and I rarely get round to this and fit them in as and when I can.

Perhaps I could be more organised but I'm doing what fits my capacity with a 20 month old who is into everything. I work part time and have a school child and knackered and pregnant, so as long as my house isn't growing germs then I'm happy (ish).

You can tweak the Organised Mum method!

And the idea is you do what you can in half an hour. As the weeks go by you can get more done/the base level is tidier.

I’ve a newborn and a child in school half days and it’s saving my sanity/house!