That is always the crazy and exhausting time of day for sure! It's the marathon hour as I think of it...LOL. The only thing I do differently is that I am able to leave all the playpens set up permanently and then I just pull out the one cot which already has it's sheet on it and that takes seconds. I am also fortunate in that I have a kitchen in my basement, so now we have lunch early (between 11-11:30) and that gives me time to clean up all of the lunch mess while they freeplay after eating (I can see them). This also gives them time to digest their food and most of them also poop during this time, so I never have naptime poop issues...LOL. After I finish cleaning up, I change diapers for those that have pooped, but no those who haven't. I then read stories and then I change those who were not changed before storytime. I do it this way because 9 times out of ten, if I change everyone before story, a couple will poop after and I will have to rechange them...it's these little things that can wear you down at this time of day. Then I tuck them all in, in the same order each day and put out my noisy fan for white noise and then my daughter and I go upstairs and I read her a story in her room and tuck her in and then fainlly I get to relax. The nice thing is, I don't have to clean up lunch mess, so quiet time is mine![]()

































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