How do they do it all?

My house is a mess!!

With four kids in the house, cleaning is a never ending battle. The house can be sparkling clean but 30 minutes after the kids get home from school, it looks like a tornado went through here.

My fault I'm sure.  I think I've been letting them get away with too much lately.  They had regular chores until school started and now that we are running like chickens with our heads cut off to different extra-curricular activities, band concerts, sports practices everyday, etc., and giving them enough time to complete homework (homework always first), it's bedtime by the time we're done.  When there is a free minute or two, I'm too tired to even think about nagging the kids.

I don't know how to fit it all in right now.  I don't know how some people do it all - super clean house, meals on the table like clockwork, carpool here and there, remember this, remember that. Perhaps they have a durham house cleaning service. I just have me.

 One undomesticated mommy + four kids + their busy schedules = one tired momma!

This schedule will go until mid-February...and the kids are already asking to take dance classes after sports are over.  All four of them.  I am beginning to think this hectic schedule will end when my six year old graduates high school?