I found the first few months quite easy with my lot (my oldest was 4 years, 2 months when my 4th one was born) however - once they started getting older the absolute crap hit the fan.
My youngest is now 15 months (the others are 5.5, nearly 4 and 2.5) and it is only now that I don't spend all day screaming. Its gotten a lot better since DD3 only has one nap a day, so there is only 1 time during the day that the others have to try and be quiet whilst she is sleeping (or I'm rocking her to sleep).
Its hectic here. They annoy the crap out of each other, which in turn, annoys the crap out of me. If they would just play nice for more than two seconds I'm sure I would do a lot less yelling!
I think the hardest thing for me to get my head around was the housework actually. You don't have the time that you did before. There is a LOT more washing. A lot more washing up. Its neverending mess because instead of 3 kids pulling toys out, you have 4. Then there are times where all 4 kids are whinging at the same time, and I swear my head is going to explode because of the whinge factor.
I had 2 screaming at me in the shower this arvo so some days are just really quite unpleasant lol Serves me right for trying to shower all 4 at once with me lol
We are getting there. I went and got them all a yearly membership to the indoor play centre on Wednesday. I think one more day with them all locked inside I would have went nuts. The hardest thing ATM is their sleeping or not sleeping. They all have to be held to go to sleep, and then they keep waking up all night.
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