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I’ve noticed that once you have kids, it’s more challenging to keep your schedule as planned.

Like when everyone’s ready to leave the house at 4.30pm, and the baby suddenly vomits.

Or when it’s the kid’s bedtime and your laundry is done, waiting to be taken out of the washing machine, but the kid somehow just WON’T go to sleep.

After you have kids, I also find that keeping the house sparkling clean and neat all the time is a challenge too. To keep the kitchen always greaseless and spotless. To get the laundry done in time. To have everything neatly placed.

What works best for me (and Wilson) so far is that we take on a more relaxed approach to such situations.

When we both are too exhausted to wash the dishes in the sink and it’s already 1am, we just leave the washing up till the next morning.

Or when I see the dirty laundry pile BUT I just can’t attend to it right away, , then I’d just leave it as it is. Of course I would love to get the housework done all the time, AND in time, but sometimes, I just can’t.

I learn that trying to be super in everything, and trying to manage every single aspect in life perfectly, will eventually drain our energy. Leaving us feeling desperate and stressed out.

And I guess, acknowledging that we can’t always be perfect and that things may not always be the way ‘we want it to be’ can in fact leave us feeling somewhat ‘happier’ as a Mom and a Wife. As a normal person.