[Lien]

Been there, done that. My husband works in the theatre as a lighting technician, which means he wasn\t home at night or on weekends, and slept late during the week.

My tricks:
Get help! Pool with other parents. We used to take turns taking the kids to baseball practice, and we would feed 4 kids & drive them once a month. That was hectic, but the other 3 weeks someone else did it.
I don't know how old your kids are, but most kids can do a couple of chores. Make it into a match: the one that finished clearing up his/her room first gets a treat/can watch tv for 30 minutes/gets computertime. Or if there is a lot of age difference: The kid that can clear the clutter from the floor within 15 minutes (egg timer!) gets computer time, tv time, etc.
Talk to your boss and ask if you can do some work from home. Some tasks can be done that way and it saves time if you don't have to get stuck in rush hour traffic.
Take the stairs
Make a mealplan, including healthy snacks. Buy once a week and take the healthy snacks to work.
While you are making dinner, put your kids in front of the tv and give them a bowl of cherry tomatoes, cubes of cucumber, carrot sticks, etc to nibble on. That way you don't have to worry about there vegetable intake, and if they don't eat their vegetables, you just tell them they have to taste three bites and you can leave it after that. Far less stress. Also, put vegetables in the blender with a bit of chicken stock (cube), heat and serve while they are watching tv. It gives you a little time to yourself, while you are cooking dinner.
Use stairs in stead of elevator, park further away from the entrance, so you force yourself to get exercise. Also, our mothers and grandmothers didn't exercise, because they did housework. So put on some music and try dancing around the room while you dust and clean surfaces. Perhaps you can even entice the whole family to join you for one hour on Saturday morning. Each person can choose a song and the others have to dance to it. It's more fun than doing chores.

I truly believe that things are easier to deal with when we pretend they are fun. So even if I have to do boring stuff, I try to make fun of it every now and then. That makes it more doable.

Hang in there, it will get better. My kids are 11 and 16 now, and although they can be a handful, it is easier to just walk away and ignore them for a bit. Couldn't do that when they were 3 and 8, around the time of my diagnosis. Now they go off with their friends and keep themselves busy.

And even though I don't want them to spend too much time in front of a screen, sometimes a tv, dvd or computergame can give me a much needed break. I have invested in a couple of good movies, acceptable games, and nice music to buy me some time.

Jacqueline