L.W.
I havent read the other posts but I will say I am looking for ideas as well. Here is what I do AFTER I put the kids to bed
I clean one room each night,
Monday -clean dust windex living room family room and formal dining room
Tuesday-clean kitchen and eat in kitchen (make grocery list)
Wednesday Clean bathrooms and Masterbedroom
Thursday - laundry day.. DO NOT go to bed until the laundry is done..you will regret it.
Friday- put the kids clothes away, buy groceries and put groceries away
I gave the hubby a duty to vaccumm and clean the floors. and for now, forget about windexing windows, dusting blinds or organzing anything.
Unfortuneatley I am getting worse and worse about this schedule because there is just soo much going on (sickness and kids waking up while I am scrubbing toilets). Any more now, I just live with all the dust and dirty floors since the hubby was good for doing that for about 1 week.
If you can go back part time, DO IT. I am a full time working mom and am gone from home 50 hours per week (baby is in daycare the entire time) I wish I could work 4-10 hour shifts and then I could do everything on that 5th day. I will say my work has summer hours so every other week I get 1/2 a friday off so that helps with all the stuff I miss during the week.
If it starts to get stressfull, you might want to consider going part time and then going home and trying to sell on ebay or Craigslist all the stuff you dont need/ dont use. That will help with more income.
I am very maticulous about my house and its driving me crazy that I have all these clothes that dont fit my baby anymore but I dont have the time to sell them...I dont want to give them away because we paid good money for them, but I also dont have time.
Another suggestion is to see if your hubby can take the kids to daycare/school. If so then you can get up early in the morning and do your chores. I get up with the baby and put her to bed so that is not an option for me.
One other suggestion would be (and this is what I am considering) is get a cleaning person every other week. That will help with releaving stress. But I am 100% on being a full time working mom is seriously for the birds.
sorry, wish I could be more inspiring but I would rather be realistic.