Too Many Things

I've been trying to keep every thing together. Its not working as well as I'd like. I'm trying to figure out how to keep the house clean, the kids clean, the kids happy, make healthy meals, keep to my menu, do home school, and have time out of the house. I'm sure there is more to my list but I can't think of it all. Also throw in staying in budget and getting sleep. I feel like I'm drowning some days.

I was out of commission all weekend. I had the house nice and clean on Thursday night. I had oral surgery on Friday morning. I'm pretty sure by Friday noonish the house was trashed again. It wasn't until Monday before I was able to do ant thing. I focused on picking up and getting laundry done.

Tuesday we had our home school teacher over and the speech therapist over. I had to have the house clean for that. Luckily Ken had made chicken noodle soup a few days before so we've been having that for the last three nights. It made it so that I didn't have to worry about making dinner on top of cleaning and the two meetings.

Trying to manage three kids, home school, meals, and house work is impossible. I'm trying to figure out how to make it easier but am just not getting there. I am also so sleep deprived that most days I spend in a foggy haze, any thing more complicated than changing a diaper requires more synapses than are currently functioning.

Monster Baby gets up two or three times a night. If I'm lucky it only takes an hour to get her fed and back to sleep. I think I get between 3 to 5 hours a night and that's not in a row.

Monster Toddler is the expert mess maker and tantrum thrower. She hates being inside and gets bored easy. Her new thing this week is to climb up our six foot tall bookshelves. She gets half way up. She also likes to dump out her toys, turn her toy basket over and use it to reach things that I am trying to keep away from her. She'll do just about any thing to get it back. It is amazing how many things they want that you don't want them to have.