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all moms who work full time...

How do you find time to cook clean and love your little booger????


I guess it just because our routine hasnt kicked into gear yet....but Im exhausted...

I only work pt. and am home in my house by noon...BUT from the time until I go to bed- flies by... I play with Ryan non stop til he goes to nap (I miss him so much during the day) then I try and straighten up...or start dinner... then Dh comes home, we eat, I bath the baby, a little more play, bottle and bed! I then try to clean up from dinner...and maybe eat a snack...then off to bed I go...

I dont even know how im gonna fit in HEAVY DUTY cleaning...and LAUNDRY....

I cant imagine doing it coming home from work @ 5.... Hats off to you MOMS>> You deserve it!

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No applause needed here... my solution? Hire a cleaning lady to clean the whole house once a week, and *thankfully* hubby is the chef in this household... so when I get home, it's all about me and Alex until she goes to sleep

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Even though my little one isn't even here yet, I am dreading going back to work full time at the end of March. We just bought a house so there is no way I can work part time. My job is also really stressful and requires me to stay longer than the 8 hours per day sometimes. Needless to say, I am not looking forward to it.

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Well, the cooking and cleaning gets thrown by the way side and spending time with the baby becomes priority #1.

For example, we were off last week and spent it blissfully enjoying every minute of him that we could. So no time was devoted to preparing for this week...so it's been take out every night this week and the mail is piled up sky high by the stairs, my clothes are draped over a chair... but hey, no dirty dishes!

Anyway, somehow the major cleaning gets done... on the weekends. I only get three precious hours a day with my little muffin and I'm certainly not going to spend them cleaning or even worrying about what the house looks like. We are lucky, in a way, because he's in bed by 7 so that gives me some time to get stuff done before bed. But once he's down for the night, I STILL miss him.

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Posted by Bxgell2

No applause needed here... my solution? Hire a cleaning lady to clean the whole house once a week, and *thankfully* hubby is the chef in this household... so when I get home, it's all about me and Alex until she goes to sleep

Message edited 1/5/2006 9:12:08 PM.

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Spending time with the baby is definitely priority #1. I gave up on having a presteen house a few months ago after some frustration over trying to be "perfect" wife and mother. Also, even though i was always against it, I started having a cleaning lady come in once a month, when it gets really bad. It was the best decision I ever made. In between her visits I do the best I can by doing a little bit at a time, but she gets the place really well cleaned when she is here and we just try to keep it up in between her visits.

I do our laundry every 2 -3 weeks and the baby's laundry ever 4 days. The only thing we always get cleaned before going to bed is the kitchen. Dirty kitchen skeeves me.eeww

Basically, I come home from my day job and after our son goes to bed, I move on to my job #2- housework. I make him meals for next day, boil my breastpump, wash his clothes if needed and cook dinner for the next day while watching SATC, Project Runway, DWTS and other such masterpieces of modern television. I noticed that it really helps! Gets your mind of the fact that you are doing all this work again instead of relazing, and also entertains you so you work faster

Obviously, I never go to bed before 11, like I used to when I was home with him... but whachyagonna do, right?

So, it's doable if you let go of certain things and realize that you will never ever be able to get everythign perfect and you should just give up on keeping a perfect house and concentrate on important things-like your baby and your husband! Speaking of which, did I mention we also manage to spend "quiality time together" once a week? Way more important that a tidy house, if you ask me

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My nightly routine (weekdays) is to come home, feed Andrew his dinner, give him a bath, a little playtime and a story and then put him to sleep at 8:30. If he doesn't fuss, I start housework, mostly just cleaning the kitchen, laundry and making Andrew's bottles up for day care.

If I can fit it in, I have dinner after 8:30, or I just skip it. I usually go to bed around 12:00am.

I get up at 5:00 am so I can get myself ready for work, but also do some more chores before Andrew gets up.

I am jealous of those of you with cleaning ladies or DHs who pitch in!

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My daily routine is as follows up between 6 - 6:30am get myself together for work. DD wakes up around 7:30am I get her breakfast together and set her up to eat DH is with her during the day. I get home around 5:30 - 6 PM I cook dinner feed DD and DH then give her a bath play with her for a while she doesn't go to sleep till around 8:30 - 9pm. Then I clean up after dinner and straighten up the house wat ch a little tv and go to bed. On Friday nites after DD is asleep I usually do the dusting. On saturday I get up with DD in the morning hang out with her for a bit then I go do laundry when I get home I play with her and when she takes a nap I will clean my bathroom and start on my kitchen. then she will wake up I will play with her and leave the rest for later on I hang out with her and do things with her. Sometimes she will take another nap and I will finish my kitchen if not then I finish it at nite after she goes to bed then sunday is all ours to do whatever we want.

Sometimes Dh helps out and he will do the dusting andI will do the bathroom friday nite so all I have on saturday is the kitchen and vacuum.

I admit it is hard at first but once you get into a routine it comes naturally and you get use to it. There are times when I don't cook dinner but I will make chicken nugets or pastina for DD for dinner.

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I work full-time from home so I have a bit of a different schedule but I don't find the housework to be hard to get too...I find the stress is really bad when Molly is sick and can't go to daycare and I have a meeting or conference call...or when she is up all night and I have to get stuff for work done the next day without being a total bit_ch. For me it is harder to just have sooo much to get to. I don't hate my job. I hate having to do my job plus everything else. If that makes sense.

I don't understand how you have husbands the don't help though. Do they flat out refuse to fold clothes or vacum or sweep the floor? I mean, how are you expected to work fulltime and do everything at home. In my house the saying is "If I have to do everything at home myself then I will quit my job"..and DH does not want that to happen so he does do a fair share...not 50% but still he does vacumn once a week, will mop the tile floors, folds the laundry and helps put groceries away. He will change the sheets if I ask him too.

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I am almost working full time ( 4 days a week...I only wanted 3 days a week). I work 12pm-9pm Tuesday and Wednesday, 12-6 Friday and 10-5 Saturday. I am happy I don't have to rush around in the morning but I don't get home til 9pm, she is tired and almost ready for bed.

I have not really worked out a routine yet...