Help, I'm Drowning In Housework

Being a Mommy to a 29 month old daughter, wife, homemaker and working full time is a major challenge for me.  Like most Moms (even stay at home Moms), I can't keep up.  I realize that now.  So, I think it's time to lower my standards as to what a 'clean' house looks like and figure out a schedule that works for me.  I've been doing a lot of research and reading tips from other Moms who have already tackled this issue and I think the tactic of having a 'must be done everyday' list (keeping it reasonable), and a weekly chore list is the way it will work for me.

I have tried a 'five minutes per room' routine, but the problem with that is that I always end up spending more than five minutes in the room and something else falls behind.  Also with no set chore list, I seem to always be doing the same thing in that room each day, going around in circles and the house just never feels clean or organized to me.

So, here we go.  Once I have fine tuned a schedule that works for me, I'll post it here and hopefully help out another Mommy in the process.  If anyone has some helpful tips for me, I'm all ears.