I am doing it!! I finally have my routine down...ish with 3 kids. I am up and going at 5 a.m. which surprising has not been bad getting back into that. I get to shower and get ready and come downstairs and have a cup of coffee before all the kids wake up. Bailey will usually wake up at about 5:30ish to eat but then she is right back out. Then Brecken and Taylor usually wake up around 7. I get them ready and down eating breakfast while I eat with them. I am going to start doing a short devotional with them at breakfast once I get to the Christian bookstore to get some kids stuff. Then we are in the living room getting diapers changed and clothes and hair done. Then I usually get a couple minutes to run upstairs and clean up and make beds while the kids watch cartoons. I have just enough time then to feed Bailey one more time and change her in case she decides to go again:) Then we are off getting Taylor and on Mondays Brecken to school. This then gives me time to run my errands with only 1 or 2 kids. Sometimes I will meet Doug for lunch. Taylor is out by 1 and we are back home for naps by 1:30 and they get to sleep until 3. I have noticed if they over sleep they are way grouchier so I wake them by 3. In this little bit of time I do homework. Then we are all up at 3 and back downstairs. Outside if it is nice some days. The kids are awesome at entertaining each other so I get my 15 minutes of cleaning in and even some days 30 minutes (THANK YOU FLYLADY). I used to be one of those moms...well I will say girls since I did not have kids at the time, where I would clean every single week on Saturday and it was done perfectly!! No exceptions!! Then I had Taylor. I was still able to keep that up actually after her. I was a MASSIVE neat freak!! I would NOT be happy if Doug did anything wrong and it had to be done my way. Then Brecken showed up. Still did not do to bad with keeping up with the house. Then I got pregnant with Bailey. Yeah....my cleaning went from once a week to maybe once every 2 weeks if not every 3. Then I had Bailey...holy cow. With 3 kids trying to get my attention and none of them sleeping on the same schedule, 2 dogs driving me nuts, phone calls for the massive amounts of appointments I seem to be making, homework and being a good wife and cooking all 3 meals (and yes I pride myself to say that most days my kids have a huge breakfast since I am not sure how much they eat at school, lunches made for on the go and a cooked dinner on the table by 6 all with fresh fruits and veggies included) plus walking and Wii Fitting it to get my weight down so I can prepare for our fourth, cleaning was not on my priority list if I even had an option to put it on there. If you have multiple kids you KNOW what I am talking about. Everyday is CHAOS although in a really fun and fulfilling way. I swore up and down when I had kids I would never stray off of my cleaning schedule. HAHAHAHA!! Boy did I have a rude awakening and when I hear other young mamas swear to this too, it makes me giggle a little. Anyways I started letting Doug take over some of it and I did not care how he did it. I started giving Taylor small things to do. I also started letting myself off the hook for not getting things done on a schedule and relaxed a little. I started doing this when Taylor walked in and said "Mommy, are you ever going to be done cleaning and come and play with us?" It was then I realized my priorities were way off. I still love having a clean house but I only take 15-30 minutes a day now to do it. So back to schedule...after cleaning I start to cook around 5 in which I put Brecken and Taylor at the table to do a craft or color. Dinner is on at 6. After we go for a walk weather permitting and then baths and bed for kids. FINALLY by 8 Doug and I are finishing picking up the house and getting ready for bed. We get to sit and watch an adult show (not the naughty kinds you pervs...just ones that our kids cannot watch) or talk or whatever! We try to be asleep by 10 since we start all over the next morning. One thing is we do not have a day where we do not have something so we are trying to go to the Thursday night services instead of Sunday morning so that we can at least have a day off. Anyways again complete chaos but I am loving it!!
Bailey is 7 weeks has started only waking up once a night if that! She is now in her room with Taylor which has been awesome!!
Taylor is still in soccer and doing GREAT!! She made 4 goals last week. Brecken is being Brecken. He is going through his defying mommy and daddy stage but he has been responding awesome to discipline and is really starting to listen when we tell him something. He is such a great kid! We are just so blessed with everything and I am seriously loving this time in my life. Although I am starting to feel old. When I had 2 kids people would say I did not look old enough to have 2. Now when I tell people I have 3 kids they look at me and say they thought I had 4. Eh I guess being old can be fun. Senior discounts coming my way!!
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