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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  This is helpful.  Thanks.

The kids' rooms are not a major issue.  They mostly play in the common spaces, and their rooms are actually pretty clean.

The main issues are dishes, laundry, mail/school announcements/paper clutter, and toys.  I do the laundry, but then we never get to putting it away, and it ends up in piles on the bedroom floor because we mean to put it away and don't get to it.  We also start projects that we never end up having time or energy to finish -- we never finished painting out bedroom even though we started months ago, we have files sitting out that DH started going through and then stopped, there are piles of things that need to be carried upstairs or downstairs or gotten rid of, etc.

It just feels like we can't work on this sort of thing when the kids are around, but the only time we have without them is when they are finally in bed (at 9pm or so for the older), and by that point, we're exhausted and just want an hour or so to chill out before going to bed ourselves.  Our youngest isn't a baby anymore but still wakes up at least once a night frequently, and it's just enough to ruin my REM sleep and make us all feel even more exhausted.  I know things will be better in a few years, but I'm so frustrated with the mess and the exhaustion and lack of time![/quote]

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