I don't even try to do everything. DH does the lions share of the cleaning and cooks most nights. No way could I find time to do everything. It's just about priorities and deciding whats important to you and getting those things done first. My time is usually taken up just with nappy changes, feeding kids, wiping bums and noses, keeping small hands out of everything, etc, to havd much time left for anything else. The free time I may actually find (on the rare occaision DD is at school, DS1 is watching TV quietly and DS2 is asleep) I do my study, catch up on my work commitments or trying to get a nap in myself.

I would love to live in a clean house, where the washing wasn't in a pile near the laundry and the sink weren't always full. But I figure that will hapen as the kids get older. In the meantime, It may be messy, but there's only so much a single person can do and we are happy despite the mess.