[MamaChinch]

I agree with Jeana ~ it helps so much to have a support system! My mom takes Delaney when I need to clean or get something important done. I have four teenage nieces, who have come by to help out, too. Jamie has come to clean a couple times, and I've paid her a little bit. The rest of the time I either take her in the shower with me, take a bath with her, or take some of her toys in the bathroom and close the door.
I clean up after she goes to bed, and pick up constantly during the day, she will pick up her own toys with my help, too. I do the dishes after we eat and she likes to puts them in the dishwasher. At 19 months she can play a little bit independently, so that's when I hop on the computer or finish up in the kitchen. She does not like me to cook, but likes to eat! So I prepare a lot of things one handed!! When I put her in her high chair to eat, I do the rest and get my food ready.
I get up before she does if we need to go somehwere so that I am ready first, but when I need to get ready I close the bedroom door and give her toys to play with and I can see her while I am in my bathroom (in my bedroom). I did this when my nieces and nephews were smaller and would spend the weekend.
Hope that's speicific enough! It's denfinetly a change, when I get up from the sofa and I have something to drink in my hand I need to remember to put it up, remember to push everything back out of her reach on the coutners.....etc.
It might help if once the baby goes to bed she can prepare some meals in advance that just need to be heated up, or if that can be done while someone is watching her. Mel can PM me and we can trade ideas!!
Good luck ~ it's a change, but completely wonderful, as I write this I've had to stop a few times to tell her no and redirect her.......there she goes again!!!!