S.W.
Hey, M.!
I'm sorry that I don't have a suggestion for you, but I do have a story that might give you a chuckle. When my five kids were little, I was homeschooling. It was a constant struggle to keep the house clean without sacrificing the time spent in teaching the three older ones and keeping the two younger ones busy. One particularly hard day, I had a minor melt-down. I called my husband from work and told him he needed to come home NOW. Panicked, he dropped the phone and ran out, arriving at home in a record ten minutes. When he walked in the door, there I was, huddling in a corner with five bewildered kids making a sort of fence around me. He rushed over and said, "Honey, what's wrong??!! Are you okay?" To which I answered, "You may have educated children, or you may have a clean house, but you may NOT have both!"
S.