Quick Tips from a very busy mum (Me)

1-Planning is a key to have a successful house: I am not saying that I am that successful but planning helps me get around things. Planning your house cleaning, planning your week’s food menu, planning your outings, your kids’ doctor visits, your “me-time”. It is of utmost importance to deal with your house as if it is a project. Become a fan of to-do-lists. I have a small magnetic white board on the fridge for the important dates and house chores. I have a specific notebook for all my personal / house notes.

2-Start loving the pre-cooked food. For mothers who want to have fresh cooked food everyday at home, it becomes sometime impossible to find time for it on a daily basis. What I started to do and find as a helpful tool is that I plan over the weekend what I would like to cook for the entire week. Accordingly I see which of these dishes can be prepared and stored in the fridge to rescue me when I get super busy over the week days. Always have cleaned marinated poultry ready in the fridge because this is a savior at any given day. Will post easy ideas later for quick dishes.

3-Remember the old saying “Do not postpone today’s chores till tomorrow”? This is another tool for a happy home. If you don’t want to see the laundry piling up or the kitchen basin flooding with dirty dishes learn to be efficient. Don’t wait for long before you move. Many mothers I know have the dishwasher at home as an accessory in their kitchens. Use it more often so you never run out of dishes and always have a neat looking kitchen. Same with laundry, the more frequent you do it the better even if you will wash on a daily basis. Doing small quantities of everything is much easier.

4-Take care of yourself I am a mother of a twin babies and having time for myself is a challenge which I often fail to accomplish. But when I do it, it really makes me feel alive and fresh which positively affects me and my relation with my kids. Take a time off the house every new and then. Leave the kids with your hubby or mother or a trusted relative and go shopping. Learn something new. Revive an old hobby. Don’t feel guilty doing that. It is for the better of your house and family.

5-Lower your expectations don’t be a tough judge upon yourself. It is impossible that everything will be exactly the same after the kids (Especially in the case of twins). You can’t have the time for everything like before. Prioritizing is the solution when you feel over whelmed. Always put priorities of what is more important and divide the major tasks across the week days so over the weekend you find everything in place.

6-Never look at your babies as a burden but rather a joy I came to know and meet people in my life who suffered until they got blessed with a baby. And I know other people who spent years and still don’t have one. So appreciate the blessing and treat them as such. Have fun with them; playing with the kids can take off your shoulder the most pressuring life problems. I spent the first year after I gave birth only focusing on the tasks of feeding and showering, etc. but only when I stopped behaving like that, I began to enjoy my twins more.