I stopped doing housework a long time ago. Just no time for it anymore. But then again I do work full-time out of the house AND go to school in the evenings. Study time is weekends while DD is napping and every day once she's in bed. This often means I don't go to bed until 1am or later, unfortunately. When she was brand-new I was able to study while she was nursing or while I was holding her. But now that she's 2, there's no way to really study when she's awake.
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Nap time is sacred, NOTHING but studying happens while he's sleeping b/c NOTHING related to studying happens while he is awake
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Seriously, I don't answer the phone and I plan our days so we are home for naps or I have something to read in the car in case he falls asleep there. I usually stay up after he goes to bed as well.
Very little housework is getting done - it usually gets let go until it just drives us nuts and then dh and I have a tidy-fest one evening (unfortunately dh's tolerance is much higher than mine, so this doesn't happen as often as it should). I do keep the dishwasher cycling and try to do the handwashing (pots, pans, knives) every few days. I scrub the toilet while he plays in the bath.
It is so hard at that age to set them down, but looking back I should have taken better advantage of naps when ds was that age b/c he slept all the time! Get her set up on the boppy or in the moses basket right next to you while she sleeps. Maybe break your assignments into smaller tasks and write a list - I have an easier time getting started when I'm focusing on a piece of something rather than the entire, overwhelming thing, yk?
Good luck! It's tough to do school with kids (I got my bachelor's before ds, started my masters program while pg with him...the difference is huge!), but you become incredibly good at prioritizing and just getting those blasted assignments DONE
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Very little housework is getting done - it usually gets let go until it just drives us nuts and then dh and I have a tidy-fest one evening (unfortunately dh's tolerance is much higher than mine, so this doesn't happen as often as it should). I do keep the dishwasher cycling and try to do the handwashing (pots, pans, knives) every few days. I scrub the toilet while he plays in the bath.
It is so hard at that age to set them down, but looking back I should have taken better advantage of naps when ds was that age b/c he slept all the time! Get her set up on the boppy or in the moses basket right next to you while she sleeps. Maybe break your assignments into smaller tasks and write a list - I have an easier time getting started when I'm focusing on a piece of something rather than the entire, overwhelming thing, yk?
Good luck! It's tough to do school with kids (I got my bachelor's before ds, started my masters program while pg with him...the difference is huge!), but you become incredibly good at prioritizing and just getting those blasted assignments DONE
This next semester will be my first time taking online classes and I am taking three of them. Plus I'll have one evening class on W from 6-9.
We aren't doing after school care this next semester and hopefully not again until I am teaching (if needed) so homework will get done after 9 pm when Kailey goes to bed.
I'll be working from 10-2 and her school dismisses at 2:45. What I think I'll do is read for that 30 minutes I wait in the valet line
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Then finish up at night.
We aren't doing after school care this next semester and hopefully not again until I am teaching (if needed) so homework will get done after 9 pm when Kailey goes to bed.
I'll be working from 10-2 and her school dismisses at 2:45. What I think I'll do is read for that 30 minutes I wait in the valet line
I bought one of those cookbook holders at a hardware store and I use it to hold open my textbooks so I can read hands free when necessary
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that leaves one hand free for the keyboard and one for a child. Some days it is the only way I get much done, and my kids aren't even babies anymore!
You will figure out what works best for by trial and error.
I've been going to school since my kids were babies (6 months old). I got the majority of my studying done at night after everyone was in bed....I just concentrate better at night. When my youngest was still nursing she would happily nurse and I could at least get some reading done.
Housework has to wait until the weekends (if I'm not at work that is!) when dh is home to help out (like today we did all the laundry, moved the 2 ft tall grass in the backyard, went grocery shopping, cleaned the bathrooms, etc). I make my kids clean up too (5 and 9 they can do a lot). But nothing is EVER totally picked up and perfect.
Anyways, it has all been working out fine. I even homeschool both my girls and my GPA is good. My girls also learned at an early age to entertain themselves
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I've been going to school since my kids were babies (6 months old). I got the majority of my studying done at night after everyone was in bed....I just concentrate better at night. When my youngest was still nursing she would happily nurse and I could at least get some reading done.
Housework has to wait until the weekends (if I'm not at work that is!) when dh is home to help out (like today we did all the laundry, moved the 2 ft tall grass in the backyard, went grocery shopping, cleaned the bathrooms, etc). I make my kids clean up too (5 and 9 they can do a lot). But nothing is EVER totally picked up and perfect.
Anyways, it has all been working out fine. I even homeschool both my girls and my GPA is good. My girls also learned at an early age to entertain themselves
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my mom keeps the kids for 2 hrs a few days a week. i'm doing distance learning also so its 9 lessons. i started in april and i have until november to finish although i can file for an extension if i need it. i've turned in 2 lessons
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although this is like my worst subject. its french 3 and really i barely passed fench 2 like 3,4 years ago....
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although this is like my worst subject. its french 3 and really i barely passed fench 2 like 3,4 years ago....
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I start school in August and my son James turns 3 right before I start..I was lucky I go from 5:30am to 10:30am so he is a sleep while I'm gone but it does pose the question when am I supposed to study???I mean house work alone took me a week to get all completed but no that it is done, it's all good. But once I start school when am I supposed to study???? And I am worried about being able to stay focused at school.
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