I make my bed and tidy my room as soon as I get up, then wipe over the ensuite and clean the toilet as soon as I'm done with it in the morning so at least that is done.
Unstack the dishwasher in the morning while make the brekkies so i can just stack it in the day time.
Hang out the washing in the mornings with the kids outside for a game.
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I take 10minutes every morning for a quick tidy
we have 'pick up time' at 5pm where everybody who is present has to help to pick up all the foreign objects that have migrated to the wrong spots.
Clean the main bathroom while the kids are in the bath.
Clean the showers while I'm in them (I shower in the main shower once a week to do so lol).
Clean the kitchen while DH pays with the kids after dinner.
Dust one room per day (only take 5ish minutes) - Nate is the best duster of skirting boards lol - Darcy usually just follows chatting.
Vaccuum when DH is around (both my kids don't do noise well at all).
Mop when they're all asleep.
In the morning, I make our bed while attending to DS when DH is in the shower before he goes to work. DH helps me by looking after DS while I shower and he also unpacks the dishwasher before he heads out the door at 8.00am.
I wash clothes on Monday, Thursday and Saturday, we go away quite a bit at weekends so it does take me a couple of days to get the house in order when that happens. DS loves to push the buttons on the washing machine and mucks about in the laundry while I am in there.
I vacuum when DS is awake in the morning, he loves to push it around so I let him go for his life. I mop the same day when he is asleep which is once a week. I nearly always clean up after every meal (clear table, shake tablecloth, vacuum under table) otherwise it really does build up by the end of the day. I have a cordless upright Electrolux which is the best money I have ever spent. No more sweeping, it gets all the crumbs so easily.
I clean up after dinner and DH gives DS his bath then, I am usually finished by the time DS is ready for bed.
Toilets are done once a week, a quick wipeover with a Flushable cleaning wipe.
Bathrooms more so on weekends so I can clean the shower while I am having a shower and DH can look after DS.
Getting easier now Charlie will actually detach a little and play by herself.
I clean the shower/bath while i'm in it (shower over the bath so 2 birds one stone)
Charlie watches the chooks while I hang the clothes on the line but that's soon to stop because she's just realised she can crawl (eeeek)
Unpack dishwasher while Charlie is eating dinner for repacking after dinner
Fold clothes as I get them off the line if it's not too hot and stack in some logical order
Vacuum while Charlie playing or if she's feeling clingy and grizzly I stick her in my ring sling and she falls asleep (vacuum cleaner and sling EVERY TIME)
Mop the floors on the way to bed
put a load of nappies on straight after Charlie's brekky and they're done after Charlie's morning nap (IF SHE NAPS)
Rest I try to do as I go and I make sure I keep a few microfibre dusters around (in sidetable draw, phone table, lounge draw) so as I go put something away and such I whip the duster around and it's maintained
i have an 11month old crawler and trying to walker and i have 2 dogs that sheds hair like crazy so i vacuum when dd is having her morning nap but when its closer to waking time and mop during her afternoon nap and mop again before i go to sleep. i find i have to do much more cleaning with 2 dogs around because im paranoid of all the dog hairs etc
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I mop the same day when he is asleep which is once a week. I nearly always clean up after every meal (clear table, shake tablecloth, vacuum under table) otherwise it really does build up by the end of the day. I have a cordless upright Electrolux which is the best money I have ever spent. No more sweeping, it gets all the crumbs so easily.
You all sound so busy! Some handy tips there. Hopefully it will get easier as DS gets older as well.
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