Maybe with time you will get used to the new rythm and it will get easier. It IS busy with 5 full-time, I agree. I have 6 because my own daughter is home too and sometimes 7 when my son is home from JK. Sometimes I feel like all I do is clean, change diapers (I have 5 in diapers), resolve disputes,etc. But I always try to pace myself and remind myself that it is more important to sit down and have some cuddles and quality time than to do that craft we had planned. I do art time, but it is very simple so that we can all do it together, or I give the older kids one thing and give the younger ones crayon and paper or stickers. I do pom poms with the whole group at the table...the 1 year olds absolutely love putting pom poms into wipes boxes and dumping them out...the older kids can make patters, sort, count, etc, but also love the wipes boxes. When one kid loses interest, I let them go off and play...but I am lucky in that I have a set-up that allows me to do that. I think in general I find it fine...only when it's time to get ready to go outside I find it a bit crazy getting 7 kids into snowsuits (thank goodness three of them can do it without help!).