Midnight Meanderings

I am waiting for my FTP system to upload all my work for the day. My husband is asleep snoring on the couch, and James Bond is playing on the TV. I am so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open, and yet I know it will still take me a good half an hour before I can wind down and fall asleep once I am laying in bed. I used to try my best to read my scriptures in the morning, but now I grab my wonderful i-phone and just read my scriptures on there while I try to go to sleep.

Last night, at 2:30 am to be exact, I read from this past April conference's talks. A few of them really caught my attention. There was one concerning Mothers and Daughters, and another one about how mothers need to teach their children. It is so easy to get caught up in the day to day activities and schedules that it can be really hard for me to remember that I am responsible for teaching my children.

Does anyone have any good tips/ideas/links to good baby/toddler teaching ideas? I literally have no time to research it myself unless I want to stay up until 3 - which I don't want to do. I hear Elena stirring in the other room, so I hope this FTP system hurries up so I can go in.

Also, again - any good tips for keeping the house clean? My friend told me to make it a priority to do the dishes every night before I go to bed, but... It's 2 am and I don't want to spend another 40 minutes cleaning dishes from the day. I would do them as soon as I am done using them, but I really don't see how. It's lucky that I can squeeze in time to even make breakfast, lunch, dinner - little less get my kids to be patient enough with me to spend time cleaning up. I really do believe keeping up with kids and a house is a full time job. SERIOUSLY! Working/Student moms are seriously incredible to me. I only work maybe 20 hours a week and I am barely keeping it together.

I actually hired a cleaning lady to come and clean our apartment last week. It stayed clean maybe 4 days. Now its back to what I consider chaos to be.

I HATE laundry. It is even worse than dishes. It always consumes everything. It never is done. Either they are all clean and don't get put away, or they are all dirty and I have to clean them. I also am one of those horrible people who cannot put clothes that I have worn in the dirty clothes if they aren't actually "dirty", but if I put them away in the dresser it wakes my baby up - so soon my "clean" clothes become piles in my room, which my husband likes to add to, and before I know it we are living in a crazy laundry pile bedroom. Ugghh.

Yay, my blogs finally posted. I am signing off for the day. Good night. I don't think I will wake up to my 5am alarm clock... (sigh)