This is what my SIL asked me a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about life with the new baby.  Honestly I have to say that running our home is easier now.  Doesn't that sound funny?  So my answer to my SIL was "no".  Homeschooling our DD and taking care of our baby and taking care of my DH and running the home seems easier now ... why is that?

The Lord has done such a good work in me over the past year helping me to "number my days" ... what a good God I serve!  Psalm 90:12 says "So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom" (NKJV) and I really had no idea of my need for Him to teach me how to number my days!  How sad is that?  I've read and heard that verse a thousand times, and yet I never saw my own need. 

So now here I am ... learning how to number my days aright.  Priorities ... I have learned that mine were so out of whack!  Merriam-Webster's Dictionary: 

priority

Main Entry pri·or·i·ty
Pronunciation: prI-'or-&-tE, -'är-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
1 a (1) : the quality or state of being prior (2) : precedence in date or position of publication -- used of taxa b (1) : superiority in rank, position, or privilege (2) : legal precedence in exercise of rights over the same subject matter
2 : a preferential rating; especially : one that allocates rights to goods and services usually in limited supply priority>
3 : something given or meriting attention before competing alternatives

I realized that my family and our home was not taking precendence, they were not superior in rank ... they were really taking a backseat to what I wanted ... freetime for me, my hobbies, the TV and the computer  ...

And my family was suffering for it ... you can read a bit about the trnasformation from Heather's House of Hullaballoo and Hostility to Heather's House of Harmony here ... basically once I got my priorities in line correctly life has been so much easier!!

What does all that have to do with the laundry?  Well, once I got my priorities in line, now I easily get the things done that need to get done (i.e. priorities!).  It's not that things like laundry and dishes take priority, it's that things like TV and computer are at the bottom of the list, so I am able to focus on taking care of US!