Clicky poll re: cleaning

soon2Bmrspower

If you have 2 or more little ones, when do you do most of your cleaning? I'm not talking about the day-to-day dishes, laundry, etc. I'm referring more to the deep cleaning - like cleaning bathrooms, mopping, dusting, changing linens, etc.

My DH is great and helps with lots of the cleaning around our house, but we both are having a hard time finding the time for it! He works full-time, I work part-time, but our shifts are opposite so the kids are never in daycare, and we have no family closeby. The only day we are home together all day long is Sunday. We like to devote that to family day instead of cleaning day. I feel like I should get more done during the weekdays, but I never seem to be able to manage it.

Oh, and if you choose option 1, please feel free to share how you manage that. Are your kids great nappers and at the age where they nap at the same time? Are you somehow able to do it while both are awake?

Thanks for sharing!

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ABMcKinney

We are getting ready to hire a service. There is just no way to get it all done and spend quality time together as a family.

junebug1

DH actually does most of the cleaning in our house.  But, we're considering paying a service to do it.  It just takes too much time and we aren't very consistent with it

Mr.&MrsS

I chose other because it just doesnt get done anymore. The last time the house was cleaned was when my mother sent her cleaning lady over two days after we got home from the hospital from having Nolan. I pick up every day, but never get a chance to clean. Most of the time the clean laundry never even makes it out of the basket into the drawers.

daisies0406

I do a little here and little there doing the week and if we don't have a lot to do on the weekends I'll do some cleaning then when DH can watch.wrangle at least one of the kiddos!

brandifawn

I still only have one of my own (#2 will be here at the beginning of January), but I care for a little girl who is 3 months younger than my son 5 days a week, 9 hrs a day.  I have been blessed that they nap on the same schedule and are great independent players, so I am able to get lots done while they nap/play.  I have kept her since she was 3 months and my son was 6 months and it is much easier to do things now that they are a little older and more independent, but both of them dropping the morning nap has made things a little more difficult.  Not sure when I will get things done with a newborn in the mix

Asquared

you don't have an option that says, we do what it takes to keep the house going- everything else can wait... until my mom gets here and starts cleaning for me! :-)

JARbaby

I clean a room a night and do the bulk and laundry on Saturday morning.

I go to school all Sat afternoon and work 8-4. M-F.

shouldbworkin

I do it here or there on Sat or Sun morning or during naps, a little bit at a time.  DH cleans the floors on Sunday nights after the kids are in bed. 

nicole0706

I try and do it during naps and on weekends, it does not get done as much as it did before DD so I can only imagine what will happen when # 2 arrives. DH helps out a little bit but the house cleaning is technically my job..anything done outside the house, ie trash, lawn is DH's job.

GettinNervous

Other. I'm divorced, and I do the deep cleaning on the weekends when I don't have them or when I am on a vacation day from work.

KABKD

DS is at the age now where he likes to "help" so I can get more done than I have in the past, more recently.

Once #2 arrives we will be hiring a service. It was a compromise DH and I made when we got PG.

The funny thing is I actually ENJOY cleaning. I just don't have the time to put my heart and soul to it like I used to. I'd much rather be dancing with DS in dirty house.

cjsummer08

I dont yet have 2 under two, hopefully soon though! I get my mom to babysitt for an evening to do all our cleaning together as a team. We put on music and make it fun! And our son gets to hang out with one of his gramma and grandpa sets.