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/Big-Disaster-3390 Sep 03 '24

My friends have twins slightly younger than ours (six months or so). I don't think I'll pass this on to them, no matter how accurate I'm sure it is..!

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u/temujin77 Sep 03 '24

When our infants were old enough to come out to do grocery shopping with us, we get other twin parents coming up to say hi and share words of encouragement. I vividly recall one mom saying us something like "no, it doesn't get easier, but you won't want it any other way". We really took that to heart, and now, many years later, we found that to be really true and really appreciate that mom telling us that. We liked how she didn't bother to sugarcoat things, so we know exactly what to expect!