Will it ever all get done?

Some days you just have to let it all go, the chaos going on in your head about everything you need to get done but don't have time to get done. After waking up to my husbands alarm which he lets go off for 10 mins before I finally get up and shut it off and getting the kids off to school. I drag myself into the shower, pop out and throw my hair in a ponytail and some clothes on. Then I take the dogs for their morning walk and load the them into the car and go to work. Then I spend all day at the shop and running around doing various errands, then around 7pm it's off to pick up the boys from my mothers. By the time I get home and eat dinner, spend some time with the boys and referee the many arguments they have every night. It's time to herd the boys off to bed, which never goes quickly. There are needing to go to the bathroom and getting glasses of water and of course the last attempt to stay awake, the "I'm Starving" whines set in. It is amazing how much food growing boys can eat. Then one last argument of the night over who is gonna sleep on top and who is gonna sleep on the bottom bunk before I finally lose it and scream at them to be quiet and go to sleep already. Then this is the time I have to do all my chores in the house, every night as I look around at all the dishes in the sink and dirty laundry that needs to be done I get so overwhelmed. No matter how much you clean as a mother, the house never stays clean. By the time you get all the laundry done the hamper if full again, by the time you get the dishes in the dishwasher, the sink is full again. Especially at my house. My boys use up so much laundry it is amazing, and when they eat they manage to use as many dishes and cups as possible. I admit it, I am horrible at housework. Will there ever be a day, where my husband actually puts his dirty socks in the hamper instead of throwing them on the floor? Will my sons ever put their backpacks away and hang up their coats, without having to told to 10 times? Will all the laundry ever get done? Will I ever find all the missing socks? Is it possible to have a clean bathroom living with 3 boys? Is it possible that my house will stay clean living with 3 boys, 2 dogs and 1 cat. I know this, as a mother's day gift to myself this year I am treating myself to a maid and a spa day....

Somnolent is the Word of the Day...

Not being able to fall asleep is one of the most frustrating things in world. It is 5am and I am exhausted and have been trying to go to sleep for the past 4 hours, with no luck at all. I have tried everything I know, and nothing. Like Monday's aren't hard enough on their own I get to try and get through my Monday with no sleep. I stay up trying so hard to clear my head of everything that is bouncing around up there, that I end up wide awake going over and over in my head everything I have to get done the following day. Then I think well since I am awake I might as well get started on the chores I have to do here at home, this is how my laundry ends up getting half way done. The ever so popular clean clothes hamper. You know when you wash clothes but don't have time or feel like putting them away they end up folded and stuck in the desginated clean clothes hamper. And let's face it, once they get there they are never getting put away, they will get dug through until they are either all wrinkled or half of them are dumped on the floor by the kids looking for clean socks. Then you will have to wash the clean clothes again. As you can tell this happens often in my house. We also have the chair in the living room that is for all the clothes you have gotten on a hanger but not managed to get in the closet for whatever reason. Doing chores at night when you can't sleep isn't a good idea, unless you want to spend twice the time and effort fixing and finishing all the half done chores the next day. I also tried eating, which is my favorite thing to do at night, hoping if I stuffed my tummy it would send me into a nice slumber, it sent me to the medicine cabinet searching for Tums. I tried laying next to BoBo and petting him to relax myself, BoBo is snoring away sleeping like a baby and I got to deal with my arm falling asleep and then the lovely pins and needles while it woke up. I tried writing in my journal, but got really caught up in what I was writing and ended up with a 4 page entry. So I now give up, maybe not trying to fall asleep will finally work. Hoping to be in Dream Land soon..