Home Sellers?

We have decided to try to sell our house. Not a good time, I've been told. Well, I've also been told it's a GREAT time to buy, which is really what our aim is here. It's not that there's anything wrong with our house. In fact, for the last 8 years it has held up quite well under the hugely destructive forces of children. We also live in a cul-de-sac and have a HOA park and pool at the corner about 100 yards down the road. Why would anyone want to move from this idyllic location? But of course, having 6 kids, 5 of them girls, in a 3 bedroom house kinda leaves 5 girls in one room. It's not functioning that way right now - Braeburn is living with his twin sisters. But I really don't want it to stay that way. So the girls can either be in a small room or in the master bedroom. We actually tried switching with them for a while and had 4 girls in the master and us in the small, and to be honest, we parents didn't like it. We do have room to add on, but Mr. Tree doesn't really do adding on, you know?

I am wondering, how does any family with 8 people at home ALL THE TIME (well, really 7 - someone has to go to work to pay for all the yogurt we end up wasting) sell a house? No, that's not really the question, is it? The question is: how does any family with 8 people at home most of the time ever keep the house clean, especially for an extended period such as a home selling? I try to use Flylady as a mentor, but I still find that unless I am specifically concentrating on keeping it clean constantly, the 3 year olds and the 6 year can mess things up faster than I can keep up with them. At least the baby is semi-clean. The worst she does is writing on herself with pens and markers or ruining perfectly good library books. Today the 8 year old dripped blue food coloring out on the garage floor and inside the car. Why did she have the blue food coloring, you ask? I asked, too. She doesn't know.