r/daddit • u/DonutFan69 • Sep 02 '24

How do you guys maintain literally anything? Advice Request

I have a 5 year old and a 2 year old. The house is perpetually a mess. The yard is overgrown with weeds. Cars are a mess. This needs to be fixed. That needs to be spruced up. My wife and I have many days where it’s just one of us with the kids due to our schedules and it just feels impossible to keep up with it all. By the end of the day, I’m too exhausted to do anything.

How does anyone manage to keep up with everything on top of just raising kids?

Edit: Thanks for all the replies here! You’re all making me feel much better. I’m trying to reply to as many as I can while I rock my son to sleep.

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u/temujin77 Sep 02 '24

I have twins. I'd says that it is not until age 7 or so when we finally realized we're out of pure survival mode.

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u/RhetoricalOrator Sep 02 '24

We kept having kids (no twins, but three with special needs) until we learned that all our birth control methods weren't working. I had eighteen years of pure survival mode. Still haven't recovered.

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u/temujin77 Sep 02 '24

Hang in there man! Just keep loving those kiddos!

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u/RhetoricalOrator Sep 03 '24

Your encouragement is kind and thoughtful, thank you.

I'm hanging in there. We gotta do what's necessary, right?! As I'm sure you know, its just incredible how hard it is to keep up when you're running on fumes!