I feel like I spend my life tidying up but still live in a midden - is that just a fact of life with small people?

[padboz]

How does everyone else keep on top of it?Apart from the fact that Im on the sofa typing rather than cleaning, why does every waking minute seem to be spent either dealing with a mess or thinking 'I really should go and deal with that mess' - anyone out there that doesnt have cobwebs - do you have a cleaner or do you have a plan? Help this old slattern get it together!?

JingleyJen - I'm clearly dooooomed then. You sound like super woman

I'd cheerfully throttle someone with piano wire for enough room in our galley kitchen for a dishwasher. Still washing bottles 8 bottles a day on top of everything else - cant wean either of them off bottles without a milk strike ... and then I start worrying about osteoporosis and teeth and stuff....

I save myself at least a half day by not ironing.
I mean it, I have an iron, it is brought out for visiting mother clothes and going out stuff. I am lucky that I don't need to iron works clothes (when I did work everything was either non-iron or minimal iron). School uniforms of perma press trousers, t'shirts under sweatshirts, neither need an iron if they are folded neatly straight after coming out of the dryer.

Empty dishwasher whilst boiling the kettle. Clothing out and reload straight after. potter around kitchen with breakfast in hand. picking up and putting away. As a basic. I would love to copy Scrambles but I really am not that organised.
Plus I home Ed and its working everything around DS as well.

Of course it isn't a fact of life!

Tie them up and lock them in a cupboard. You'd be amazed what a difference it makes.

thanks padboz, dd2 kbnows somethings going on and is very interested in the size of my stomach but i think shes going to get a bit of a shock , plus shes a real little mother hen and if she sees a baby wants to cuddle them/poke their eyes out . its definitly going to be interesting