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@davidlionheart Going from 1 to 2 kids about killed me. I believe I had (undiagnosed) post partum depression and it was awful. I felt like a shell of an human for the first year. Adding baby #3 was so easy compared to adding #2. Also think of what in the baby years was stressful and see if you...

@antnf8900 I listen to podcasts and audiobooks any time I am doing a mindless tasks (laundry, dishes, cooking, etc). My mind feels like mush otherwise.

Oh and in terms of giving kids enough attention, we’ve started doing once a month one-on-one dates with each kid so they have that to look forward to. We do it each month on the day of the month they were born so there’s no forgetting who goes when.

@zondaar39 My boys are 7.5 and 6 and wear the same size. They still are cool sharing clothes. They have different styles though, so honestly I can tell 7.5yo will wear the khakis/t-shirts while the 6yo wears jeans and sports jerseys, so they self “police” who’s stuff is whose. They share a...

@new_2_this_b_kind Our schedule (kids are 6,5,3,1 and I am 27 weeks pregnant): 6 am everyone wake up 6-7 am I feed people and they relax on the couch and watch tv 7:30 big kid drop off (older 2 go to school) 8:15-9 gym, i workout while my younger 2 play in childcare there 9-11 play with younger...

@eveningfirelight This is the way! My “nice” baby carrier lives in the house and my older/faded baby carrier lives in my car. So nice to have 2 so I am never without one while out and about.

@jdn2604 Another thing to consider- sometime in the not to distant future the older 2 may be wearing the same size even though they are 2 years apart. I have 3 boys in a row (5.5, 4, 2) and my older 2 wear the same size now, so hand me downs aren’t as efficient as they once were. I still...

@texan2 1 to 2 about killed me. 0 to 1 was pretty bad, 2 to 3 was easy, 3 to 4 wasn’t too bad.

@hekter We choose a minivan with quick slide captain chairs and I love it so much. We push the 2 captains chairs together and have a little walk way/loading area on one side. For us it makes school car line super easy for kids to get in/out of and loading kids in is super easy. The 2nd row...

@meraki 5 kids 7 and under here as well! We are a SAHM and a chemical engineer.

@akdamar The best thing I did as a SAHP was to hand off bed time to my husband. Now (almost) every night he deals with bath/stories/bed while I relax or work on house stuff.

@daniel1986 BBBGB

@katrina2017 Yep, everything is sorted into tops and bottoms, but other than that it’s just in the drawer. It helps that each kid only has about 10-12 shirts and pant and they don’t like anything fancy so it’s all just t-shirts and cotton pants for the most part. I started doing in once they...

@dp797 I have 4 kids, ages 5 and under. My biggest hacks are clothes related. 1: I stopped folding kids clothes. Cotton shorts/pants go into one drawer, t shirts go in another drawer, dress shirts (1/2 per kid) hang. Such a game changer! 2: Each kid only gets one brand/style of sock. This way it...

@argentwarrior 4 kids in 5 years here. We don’t do it all, but I firmly believe the benefits of a lot of siblings close in age outweighs the lack of one on one time to focus on those things. For reading, we all go to library story time together, we all sit and read a story together at bedtime...

@lynq Is there any errands you’d run by the 3 day a week school? I’ve chosen preschools that were a bit farther away but were close to pediatrician/stores/gym etc so instead of going home while my kiddo is in preschool I kill the 4 hours by running errands and going to appointments and...

@daisy83 We have 5 kids and our rule is that I am in charge of all middle of the night newborn care while my husband deals with all big kid wake ups. That means I am always waking up multiple times in the middle of the night while my husband could get lucky with either 1 or no wake ups from the...

@summer63 If you are ok with something with religious undertones (they are hosted at churches) I highly recommend looking to see if there is a MOPs (mother of preschoolers) group in your area. While not completely free it’s like $30ish for the entire year of meetings/playgroups/moms night out...

@sjbraunlich I don’t know the ages of your kids, but we have had success with “gating” off a hallway with a piece a furniture like an ottoman that the bigger kids can crawl over without help but the crawling baby cannot climb over. Maybe something like that would be a solution in your case...