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It's all a blur..

The earliest I get home is 6pm, so usually as soon as I get home, I take DD to wash our hands and we sit down for dinner. She's a slow eater though, so usually we're eating past 6:30pm. Then she can play for a little while, go outside if she wants (I don't usually encourage it though b/c she will never want to come back in). A little after 7pm we start bed time routine, some days bath, some days not. I aim to have her in bed by 7:30. She had been falling asleep in 10-15 min, but lately she takes like 1+ hr!! And I've been so exhausted that I just pass out along with her, leaving poor DH to clean up everything.

We get home around 4pm. I change out of work clothes while DH feeds DS2 his bottle. Then we all kinda relax/play until 5ish, when I make dinner. We eat around 5:30. Afterwards, depending on how long it took DS1 to eat, we play some games together if there's time. If not, we head straight to baths. At 7ish, DS2 has his bottle and goes to bed, while DH and DS1 get his teeth brushed and pjs on. When I'm done with DS2, we all watch a show together or play on the ipad. Around 8:15, DS1 goes to bed. Then we both get ready for the next day, and afterward watch TV together until bedtime.

Home around 6pm. Feed baby. Change diapers. Unload bags, repack for tomorrow. Someone walks the dog, other person starts on dinner - continual interruption by both baby and toddler. Eat quickly (usually taking turns). Feed baby (she cluster-feeds in the evenings). Change diapers. When there's time, one of the kids gets a bath. Baby feed/bed by 8pm. Go back downstairs to clean up while he gets toddler ready for bed. Story for toddler, then sometimes, we both don't pass out from exhaustion.

We get in around 5.30. Coats and shoes off, TV on. I fetch E a snack and some warm milk (she eats dinner at daycare). DH gets in about 5.45. We watch kids TV until 6.45, or until E's behaviour gets bad, which is an indicator that she needs an early night. Then we go up to her room, get washed and into PJ's, then I read 4 books to her.

My husband works from home. He leaves around 5 to go pick up LO from daycare. By the time I get home from work around 5:30, they're already back and he's feeding her supper in her high chair and washing her bottles from daycare.

I go change out of my work clothes and then try to get her to eat a little more before usually giving up (as soon as I get home and she sees me, she wants out of her chair and to be held).

Then I play with her and try to get a few chores done, catch up on our days with my husband. Sometimes I can make some dinner and scarf it down (I do most of the cooking on the weekends, so we eat leftovers during the week). If she's especially fussy (she's usually exhausted), I'll take her for a walk outside.

We start the bath and bed routine sometime between 7-7:30. That's usually finished around 8/8:15. Whichever one of us isn't doing bath/bed packs her bottles for the next day, and gets her dinner for the next day cut up, portioned and in the fridge. After that, if I haven't already, I'll eat some dinner.

I'm usually in bed by 9. So the only time I have in the entire day to either be by myself, take a shower, or veg out on my phone is during that 30-45 minute period after I put her to bed. It can be pretty exhausting. Of course, I'm trying to "be there" more for my husband at night, so even that short period of time is getting taken up.

I'm also thinking I need to start waking up earlier to get chores done. My husband has been grumbling that he feels a lot of the household chores have been unfairly falling on his shoulders lately. Of course, he's got a whole hour and a half at the beginning of the day before he starts work with absolutely nothing to do and the whole house to himself, but ... that's a grumble for another day.