MrsArch - Of course you'll cope with two, the newborn stage is scary the first time but you're not going into it blind this time and you will've learned so much from the first, so the 2nd will be a doddle. Getting over-tired children to sleep is a pita irrespective of how many you have, it's nothing to do with coping. As a CM I am super-stringent when it comes to routines because if one of the mindees is late going for a nap it gets a lot harder. As your LO dropped a nap I'm sure this is what made it so difficult, they won't be dropping a nap forever so just don't worry about it. Don't forget either that newborns just sleep and feed - at the time I felt like I was rushing round at full pelt all day and didn't have time to do anything but that's twaddle, since being a CM I've looked after a couple of very tiny babies and all they do is sleep!! I think I must've just been in shock for the first 3 months of DDs life!
What I do when I'm feeding my baby mindee is make sure that the house is as safe as possible before starting - could you put chairs on top of the table out of reach? Jumping on the sofa is DDs favourite passtime, not much you can do about that other than take the cushions off and encourage them to jump on them on the floor instead, I do this as a bit of fun for mindees, they love it and go totally wild!
DD doesn't watch TV for any length of time, but I found two programs that will hold her attention - Something Special and Peppa Pig. She will watching half a Peppa DVD sometimes but she always loses interest and runs around during the credits!! She just isn't interested in anything else at all.
I think someone was asking about getting LO to sleep at night - DD was awful at sleeping at night, wouldn't go down on her own and was waking up multiple times. I tried everything I could until I felt there was nothing left to try but Controlled Crying. I did a very tame version where I spent two months building up to leaving her for 3 mins crying, that is - 1min on her own then go in to calm her, 2mins on own and back in, 3mins on own and back in and repeat on 3 mins until asleep. I spent another month getting up to 5mins and she finally got it and slept through when she was 15 months! This is the reason I'd never have another child because I personally value my sleep too much and the thought of another 15 months being woken up every hour or so just doesn't appeal!! Again that's nothing to do with coping because actually I was very blase about it at the time but now that I have a full night sleep (mostly) I most certainly won't be giving it up willingly!!
Hopefully - Definitely get online and buy your PG tests online, you can get a massive batch for very little, my friend used these little strips, no plastic or anything, they were dirt cheap even though she had loads and because they weren't in large boxes she didn't need to buy a second shed to store them all in!!