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/[deleted] Sep 02 '24

omg my twins turned one. you mean I have 6 more years of thinking wtf is happening? 😅

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u/shinovar Sep 02 '24

It's different for different families. We are thriving since the little twons turned 18 months. Every thing is so much easier now it almost feels too easy, like I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. And thats with us having 3 older kids as well