OK, this probably seems to be a bit of a silly question, but when does it get done? :| My house is OK on the surface (ish) but my bathroom hasnt been cleaned for about 3 weeks :gag: and it drives me mad but still I dont seem to have found a routine to get this done. It doesnt help that i wasnt really in one before I had a baby. We both worked long hours so had a cleaner :blush: and my mother just doesnt do anything domestic so I didnt learn much there :rolleyes:. However, I NEED to get organised. So come on supermums when do you DO IT :wink:

Supermums? Hahahahahaha. My house is perpetually messy and only gets tidied according to how much energy I have left once the gruesome twosome are in bed.
We do big tidies if we have time and both of us are around but that's rare.
We have no routine, it just isn't possible. If I go and try and do housework of some description, the girls go and trash something, creating more housework later so it doesn't pay.
I've almost accepted that my house will be the epitome of everything bad until they start nursery, maybe then I'll get a couple of hours each day.
Your time with your child is far more important IMO, the child will grow up but sadly the housework will always be there, even when your LO has long since flown the next. Enjoy the baby and the excuse to fret less.

Sorry no earth mother and my house is far from perfect but my oh is a nightmare when it comes to a tidy house.

What I do is tend to tidy before Em gets up or before I go to bed then she trashes it throughout the day.

The bathroom gets cleaned a least once a week normally when Em is in bed and either just before me or oh get in the bath shower.

What I find the hardest is the ironing it is a nightmare some nights I am still doing it at 12am - when you working you can't iron your work clothes before work (as I used to) when your also trying to get the 2 of you ready.

Don't worry about it everyone does what is best for them all I can say is don't try a bench mark yourself against other moms or you will just go mad.

Oh I really detest house work, but I've kinda got into some sort of routine since we got the mobile fluff-ball that is our GSD. Our morning routine goes as follows..., i get up, wake speedy 2 & 3, prepare both babies bottles, lay speedy 4 on sofa next to me drinking her bottle while i feed speedy 5. Speedy 1 is up, and has made sandwiches for lunch for herself, and 2 & 3, she then goes to the shed to feed and water rabbits. 2 & 3 feed dog and cats, and get their own breakfasts. When 4 & 5 have had breakfast, i wash n dress them, see 2 & 3 off to school, then the hoover comes out. I tidy kitchen & lounge, wash breakfast pots, hoover stairs, lounge & kitchen & stick a load of washing in the machine. Usually then decide what we're having for tea and get something out of the freezer to defrost. Then it's on to loading the steriliser and sorting out bottles. I've usually managed to sort that lot out in time to collapse in front of Jeremy Kyle & the laptop lol. Rest of the day depends what needs doing or where I'm going, but the early morning routine rarely differs. Sometimes I'll carry on going after that lot, and mop the floors, do the ironing or go shopping but the hoover has to come out first thing every morning as soon as the kids go to school. I clean round the bathroom every time I go in the shower, so that could be every day or every other day. There's method in my madness cos i clean it with a towel round me, and by the time I've done it, I'm dry! Thus saving me wasting time drying myself lol
House never looks tidy, is covered in dog hair again after a couple of hours at the most but I really don't care. I know i've cleaned it and people who come here are used to it. I must admit to being very lax about dusting and hoovering upstairs though.

Ha! I'm with Zebra. Time with the little ones takes priority.
Ironing went out the window years ago - apart from weddings, funerals and job interiews, what really is the point?
My OH works 5 days and I work 4, so there''s not masses of time. I put the washing on first thing in the morning or when I get home from work, every day, and sort it all out in the evening. Dishes, kitchen wipedown, etc gets done in the evening along with general tidying.
The hoover comes out on a weekend or Tuesday evening when cosycub is with his grandparents...if it comes out at all. The darn dog is a mass of fur, and there's a layer all over five minutes after I put the hoover away.
A good tip, but one I often forget, is to clean the bathroom while the child is in the bath - you're there and can sing and join in the fun, but also get stuff done. All except the bath, of course.

In truth, dusting, hoovering, big tidies, all the non-essential stuff generally gets left until i can no longer stand it and do it in one big miserable run...but that happens less now I'm pregnant and supposed to be taking it a bit easier - I'm just too tired.

What did work for me for a while, was to choose a room or task each day/evening...spreads it out, can be done while child's in bed, and you keep on top of it - but my best intentions always end up running to nowt. I'm so tired after work and all the necessary tasks, I just collapse by nine pm and refuse to do any more.

I struggled for house cleaning time far more when i was working. I worked 3 nights a week, so had to sleep when the kids were at school, but still only got about 4 hours sleep so by evening i was far too knackered to do anything. Mind you, kids were in school, OH was working and i was in bed so house didn't get quite so messed up as it does these days.

Cleaning - what's that then?

Seriously, I hardly clean and I'm a stay at home Mum. In theory I have all the time in the world to clean, in reality I have little time or I try and do something and DD starts screaming or climbing up the shelves or something. I just do bits that I can and try and keep the kitchen tidy as a go. I no longer bother putting my DD's toys away and have accepted them being spread out in the room and dining room. It looks a right tip and I should be doing something now. ;)

cleaning isn't important looking after your childs needs is a first in my book! as |I have MS i find it hard to be able to be involved with my busy kids,, we have a dog walker and a cleaner when it gets bad but the kids come 100% first

So long as you are all healthy, fed and have clean underwear stop worrying.

Ironing? Pah thats for people with too much time on their hands! Your house is a home not under the inspection of Kim and Aggie. So long as its not threatening to life chill.

My son loves loading and unloading the washing machine, using the hoover and the duster etc ..... its a lot slower to get housework done but way more enjoyable when its done together.

I hated housework before Noah was born and had a great excuse to get out of it, I had SPD and sciatica and couldn't get out of bed let alone clean :rolleyes:

For some reason since Noah was born my house has never been so clean. I get up when baba wakes me I prepare and give him his bottle, chuck a wash in, prepare his bottles for the next few hours, hoover, dust, feed the cats, clean toilet and bathroom then get back in bed for the rest of the day to watch Jezza Kyle or sit on this bloomin thing :D

It's not that I like cleaning, I actually hate it but I feel like I'm judged on what my house looks like, especially when the Out Laws come and visit, they've stopped ringing now when they're gonna pop in so I try and keep it tidy all the time :suspect:

As I have a 15 week old baby as well as Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia (imagine having flu then times the feeling by 1000) house work and cleaning do not get done very often at all.

Saying that, the house has just been shocked by being cleaned because we have friends over for a meal this evening.

Everytime I eat or try to tidy up, Rachel has a built in sensor and wakes up and cries till I stop...... perfect excuse to do as little as possible !!

In short it doesn't get done........

i tend to pick 2 days week to do a good clean but its def ironing that im slack with. lol. I hate it, it takes ages cos i never want todo it so theres a HUGE pile all the time ...its sooo boring lol.

Ironing? Are you maaaaad?
I only iron the few rare garments I have for special occasions and since those occasions rarely arise I rarely iron :D:clap::headbang:
Our girls and we wear clothes which have been dried hanging and folded or hung. We only iron for photo's otherwise.
I have much better things to do instead of ironing though since I'm supposed to be doing college work and can't get my head into it, I'd love a basket of ironing as an excuse right now.

Im a bad mum I pay my 15 year old daughter to do my ironing with 7 of us in the family theres always loads to do.

We tend to split cleaning between us. DS 1 and 2 know how to tidy toys away, so they do that. OH does the pots, I do the cooking and the washing.

Every now and then I get the urge to clean something like under the stairs etc. The hovering gets done by the person not taking the kids up to bed.