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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know - I think the answer is you just have to do it. What's the alternative? From my experience, it doesn't get easier or less exhausting, but it does change! When you're in the thick of the baby/toddler years it can feel relentless and exhausting, but tween and teen years are much more taxing mentally and exhausting in their own ways. Plus my teens now need me at later hours and I've conditioned myself to go to bed early!

IME, best thing I can do is make sure I find time to exercise - it is the only thing to keep my mental health where it should be. Throughout the years, I have fit this in any and every place I can - alongside my kids, at their practices (laps or walks or whatever), or getting up early or after they go to bed (this was when they were very little).

Also - a housecleaner is great, but really having an attitude that enables you to let the little stuff go (ie a messy house is perfectly fine, my kids rewearing clothes if they want, filling their lunch box with junk food occasionally). Striving for perfection in every aspect of life is what will kill you.[/quote]

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