How do you do it?

[Bathsheba]

Honestly some days I just don't know!!! I have a 4yo and a 20 month old ATM (as well as a 13yo DD) and it's still quite challenging. My 4yo will often make it hard to settle my toddler... I'll juuuuuust be lying my little one down in the cot and then BAM! in will walk my 4yo and say "I want to watch Thomas the tank Engine!!!" and my toddler will wake up and that's that. Gotta start all over again. Or one will be climbing the table while the other is ruining the carpet... what do I try to save? of course the toddler so there has been much more destruction since having more than 1 small child in the house. And then they will occassoinally fight. Oh the joy. This is why (one of many reasons) I waited 9 years to have another... and then another child. I think the reason it's hard though for me is because I have very little help with them. It's more the relentlessness than anything. Of course I love them both. Yes, I agree with 'capacity'. However I have also developed a long term illness which has reduced my capacity. So maybe my experience is worse than it would be if I was healthy.

[mbear]

ahhh thanks Bindy, youve got a bit of a cutie there yourself !!!!

[~Belinda~]

awwww thanks mbear...she is a cutie...what does your hubby do? i noticed his uniform??

[~Trish~]

I have a three year old and a four month old and I have to say it isn't as hard as I feared it would be! You really do adjust and learn to cope. It was hard having a newborn and a toddler who has been an only child for the last 3 years though! It took some working out, but we have a new rhythm and we are all pretty happy

[Hoody]

It is hard and sometimes i wonder how i do it but i do. I have a 2yo and a 4 month old. Feeding times are worst esp as DD1 can be jealous but it gets easier every day. I wouldn't change it for the world.