I needed some time off. But now, I need to add some order and accountability to my life.
Honestly, I'm drowning in life right now. I can't seem to juggle it all. My bedroom is a wreck and my closet is horrific. The kids' toys are everywhere. After they pull out every single toy they own, then they pull out the DVDs and spread them all over the living room. My daughter has lent her artistic touches to the walls (crayons and chalk) and so far that seems to be the only thing I can keep up with cleaning. I have an insurmountable amount of laundry. My bathrooms haven't been thoroughly cleaned in, well, I'm not sure. My dear Lord, that is disgusting. E is job hunting (thankfully while still employed), C is getting ready for an endoscopy to see if she really has Celiac Disease, P and C love V so much that I'm afraid to give V appropriate amounts of tummy-time and thus she didn't do so hot on a developmental assessment today, and I'm just kind of stuck on a plateau in my postpartum depression. I'm not being frugal enough, but at the same time, I'm frustrated with how frugal I need to be when I know I could go back to work and meet a fairly decent earning potential. But I REALLY don't want to put my kids in day care. I'm also not even sure I'm giving them the best experiences at home. I'm too tired to take them to the park often enough. We live on a street where our neighbors zip down the road and we can't afford to put a fence up in the backyard (yet). So we have this nice backyard just laughing at us when my preschooler and toddler should be happily deve
So I need a plan, but I feel like I can't stop treading water long enough to put my thoughts together. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. I'm just not sure where to start chewing.
So this blog is going to get really boring. I need it to be my accountability of what I'm doing. Tonight, I'm going to finish the laundry in the machines right now and probably start 1 or 2 more loads. I need to finish cleaning the kitchen up from dinner. My daughter needs sheets on her bed. The toys have to get cleaned up. And, because I need a clean space, I'm boxing up all of the stuff in my room that isn't EXACTLY where it should be right now. If it's still before midnight, I'll vacuum my room. But I have to start somewhere.
Ready...
set...
go! (God help me!)