The Challenges working full time being a mother and a wife.

I am so sick of working. I wanna go home. I am just tired of doing the same things over and over and over. Its boring to me now. I have been working here for 7 years. Dont get me wrong I LOVE my job. But I need more. Know what I mean?

Day-to-day

Man some days are busy and some days arent at all. I got home yesterday and got on a cleaning kick. I cleaned the kitchen from top to bottom. And I mean cleaned. I moved things around and scrubed the base boards and all of that. And in the kids bathroom I cleaned it and it now shines in there. I did ALL the dusting for the entire house, and did my bathroom and “ALL” the mirrors in it and the big ole tub and the shower. And did the floor in there. And I cleaned my bedroom. Which I normally skip all the time. It looks so good in there when its clean. I cleaned the living room and vacummed and dusted. And wiped everything down. The only rooms I didnt clean were the kids rooms. Man I dread doing that. Maybe I will deep clean there rooms this weekend. I cleaned until 10pm lastnight. I am tired now. I was so busy that I didnt cook dinner. Raygen ate corn dogs for dinner and Lexi ate 2 chicken sandwhiches. Hubby ate something I dont know what. And then I yelled at him for putting his dirty dishes in the sink. I mean come on the dishwasher is right there he knows I was cleaning. My 7 year old can put her dishes in the dishwasher but my 31 year old husband cant. Lexi wanted to help so I let her help a little. I was using bleach so I didnt want her in there with it to much. But I did let her help me put the laundry away. And she helped me clean the windows and all. After we were done she asked me for five dollars for helping me. I told her I only had 3 dollars cash on me. She said okay and you can give me the other 2 when you get it then. Raygen was to busy playing with daddy to notice I wasnt sitting there with her. She loves her daddy thats for sure.

1. Make a menu for dinner for the entire week. That way you know whats comming and you can make sure you have all the items you will be needing.

2. Do everything the night before. For example: Clothes for yourself and the kids. Make the kids lunches the night before.

3. Do atleast one load of laundry a night. This way its not all stacked up on the weekends and it gives you more free time for the kids.

4. Dont try to be super mom. No one is perfect and your kids will never notice if you cheated a little.

5. Homework: I always have Lexi do her homework while I am cooking dinner. She will sit at the counter and do it. That way I can be there with her and help her if she needs it.

6. Always take time out for yourself. If its just a walk around the block. Or a hot bath after the kids go to bed.

7. Clean the kitchen as you cook. Immeadiatly after dinner clean the kitchen. Dont wait cause then you are more likely to not wanna do it at all.

8. Schedule: Make a schedule of what chores you want to accomplish daily. Example: Monday clean the kids bathroom. Tuesday sweep and mop the kitchen. Wed. Clean the living room. Set a couple hours apart on the weekend to do all the deep cleaning.

9. Get the kids to help in any way they are willing to. My little one loves to dust. And my oldest loves to vacumm. I let them go at it. I will also pay my oldest a few dollars to go in and clean the younger ones room.

10. Marriage: Make sure you take time to communicate with your significant other. If its just laying in bed before you fall asleep. Make sure you take the time to just talk about your day. Or whatever. But make sure you keep that aspect of your life going.

I try to spend alot of quality time with both of my girls. For instance yesterday we went to the zoo. They had a blast. Raygen at 2 years old was fascinated with the animals. She liked the giraffes and the monkeys. When we saw an annoconda she told her daddy to kill it. She doesnt like snakes either apparently.

Last thursday me and Lexi were outside and I played hopscotch with her for an hour. And we played paddle ball. She had alot of fun. I took alot of pictures in the process. I am a picture fanatic. And over the weekend I took her an her hair cut. She loves to go get that done cause she loves for them to wash her hair. She thinks its the coolest thing.