I hear you with the "house undone" bit @Mazarita.
I did my best to house-train my family (and yes @Silenus, I am a list-writer) as they grew up, but they all still come tearing through like mini-cyclones every day, husband too. After much tension, discussion, melt-downs etc over this issue across the years, I have just had to accept a higher state of clutter and disorder than I would have liked for my home.
Something I have learned to do it to make small differences in the zone around me, wherever I am in the house during the day. I am the "un-cyclone" 😆 If I am standing in the kitchen I pick up discarded tea towels and fold them back over the oven door handle. Run dishwater into the sink and soak everything left lying around the bench tops in it. Within the next 20mins or so, I come back when it's easier to clean, and leave the washed dishes draining. They won't make it back to the cupboard without someone using them again, so I save the energy of wiping them up and putting them away.
D2 has commandeered the dishwasher as her job in the house, so she is an "un-cyclone" too, but then she is very creative about how and where she chooses to put things away when she unpacks the dishwasher, particularly if she is feeling put-out and vindictive about something. Then I have the cyclone effect happening through the inside of the kitchen cupboards.
Life is very interesting around here.
