Lately, I feel like I am running in a hamster wheel and there is no way to get off.
If I am in the kitchen, I feel like I clean up and put away and wipe things down and then 20 minutes later it’s a mess again.
Same with my desk. The end table next to where I feed Kenley. The bathrooms. The living room. The bedroom.
EVERYTHING.
I feel like when I am not feeding K, I am doing 100 other things, making time for Brayden, etc. But at the end of the day? It looks like I have done nothing.
It’s frustrating.
I have stuff that I received for Christmas still out because I need to reorganize the kitchen and that is a 10 day project I SWEAR. We want to take out a part of the cabinets, but then we would have to redo the flooring, and find a place for all that stuff, and it’s just not in the budget. I am annoyed by the changing table in the nursery. I want K to have a dresser but they are so dang expensive. I just want the stuff organized and hidden.
It’s always something.
I am trying to feel content but when things feel chaotic, I can’t help but want them another way.
Please tell me I am not the only one.
Hi! I'm Julie- wife, stay at home momma, aspiring photographer, and blogger of all things! 
I think there’s a whole group of us Mom’s that feel this way! Goodness knows I do A LOT. Sometimes I’m like “Ok, I should appreciate that I have a little family to make these messes.” but most of the time I’m like “Why do I feel like I’m everybody’s personal maid around here????” It does get frustrating and at times I will go through a very short phase of simply not caring, but the house become such a mess that thankfully that phase doesn’t last very long! (Not very long ago I even hung a sign above the garbage cans that said “Your mom/wife is not the only person that can empty these cans when they’re full!” That sign didn’t get me very far….) Hang in there and know that you’re not alone…..
Oh this sounds just like my house!! I think the sink fills itself as soon as I turn around! Same with the laundry, mail/bills and picking up the toys
I often wonder if when my husband gets home if he wonders what I have been doing all day
hang in there- you are not alone! (as I type that I see the comment above me saying the same thing!)
You are not alone.. you should see my living roon as I type this.. well.. actually I’d have to curl up into a ball and die if you did.. so maybe not. I have managed to clean 2 rooms in my house (and I consider it a HUGE house at 2800 sq ft) .. the 2 bedrooms that my 5 kids share between them. We pulled everything out of them into the living room.. only left the bed frames and empty dressers. Then went through everything and I came away with so much garbage and donations that it was crazy. But their rooms are cleaned out.. and yet still hourly I have to tell them to make / remake their beds, get the toys out of there, “no, you can’t have your lunch in there”, “why are the clean clothes thrown in a heap on the floor.. again??!!” .. and that’s just to keep 2 rooms clean.. I have no idea how people keep their whole house clean.. sometimes, I feel like a complete failure because I can’t do it, and sometimes, I just don’t care anymore that it’s such a mess. And then the times when I do care and want to get it all clean.. I just don’t know where to start. There must be a balance somewhere.. right??? right????? Thank you for posting this.. it really helps to know that I’m not alone in the world in this. And I’m sure your house looks a lot better than mine does!! I’m also sure that anyone who visits you doesn’t notice the mess.. just like when people visit me I’m always scared to death that they will find something out of place and yet no one ever notices.. or cares that it is.. We have kids, most normal people don’t expect perfection from us
Same here!!! For me it’s the kitchen, it is a never ending cycle of cook/mess/clean/cook/mess/dumping ground/clean … along with all the other chores that need to get done everyday. I gotta say though, we had a 3-day weekend and I put the hubs to work this weekend (although I did complain at my lack of free time, can’t have my cake and eat it too I guess!), but DH did A LOT around the house for me. Things I can’t do, like using big power tools and making me shelves and stuff. He did a lot of work, but I feel accomplished this weekend. Tomorrow when he goest back to work I’ll be singing a different song and wondering how I’m going to get it all done!
Hang in there … You’ll hit your stride!
Love you!!
Me too! Hey- cute as can be dressers can be found at IKEA. I love the Hemnes ones.
Hah! Just wrote similar a few days after yo u. SO there friend.