Organizing a home when you have small children

 

I desperately need help getting new ideas on how to organize my home and all the clutter that one can accumulate when having a few kids. It feels like the more I try to get creative the more I'm out of inspiration. How to I tidy a small bedroom when 2 little and very different girls play/sleep in it. One is 7 but it's totally a teenager at heart. She wants posters and cool things in her room but the other one is only 2 and has her baby toys all over as well. My son is not that bad, since he has his own room but his Lego's are always finding they're way into every single room....and last my bedroom. I have mountains of clothes to fold and put away. It seems that 1 day of doing the laundry takes forever and I never get to finish putting them away so my room instead of being an Oasis that it should be, has become the "Laundry/Folding" station.

 

How do women manage to have their home impeccable at all times while working a full time job and not only do they manage but they exceed at everything  that's "Betty CrokerISH". I need ideas...I would love to have my home nicely decorated but organized as well.

 

 

Dreams do come true...eventually

If only I had time to cook...too

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” ~John Burroughs

Life has become quite a challenge lately...I remember before I had kids, I thought I had somewhat of a stressful life. I had just moved from Puerto Rico to NY and I immediately found out that living here, life was just hectic and extremely fast paced to what I was accustomed to. Now, fast forward to being married with kids and a full time employee I look back and say "Damn, I had it good".

Today, I find myself wondering how do women manage to work 40+ hours a week, be stuck in traffic 2+ hours a day. Go to the gym (loose the baby weight), go home to homework, prepare lunch bags for the next day, give bath to all 3 little ones and then COOK? Really, how come they have time to do it and I'm here complaining...

My husband has been doing a lot of hinting that he would like a home cooked meal and of course lunch for the next day prepared every night. I wouldn't mind cooking more often but if I do that means that there will never be time to relax or unwind or that my bed time would be some time after 1am...am I being selfish? 

I look at the kitchen with such a discouragement lately. I don't mind cooking on the weekend while I wash 10+ loads of laundry, clean the house, take care of bratty-crying-whining kids...but ughhh I'm just not motivated during the week after doing my nightly routine when I come home from work. 

Oh and did I say I rarely go to the gym just so I can maybe get home earlier or shop for anything that's needed for a special homework assignment?...

I wonder if I will ever be with these group of ladies...Mrs. Mj Crocker