Advice for working mothers

this is what we come up with,

in my case, what I came up with

while cooking dinner, doing dishes

and laundry, sneaking five minutes to

use the bathroom hoping that no diasters

ensued in the meantime.  

this is motherhood, a creative endeavor

of almost disasters, nominally cleaner floors

after a second pass through, and finally,

when 

all the others have fallen asleep in 

my arms

I take a deep breath and 

sink into blessed silence.