Here I sit with my coffee cup and my laptop contemplating the days tasks that need to get done, & things I want to get done. I woke up late today. It’s summer so I normally sleep until 9 ish, but today I woke up at 11:49 – WOW my kids let me sleep that long! They are 11 & 8 so they are pretty self-sufficient. They played their DS’s & did their chores!! Guess it’s “Amaze Momma” day 🙂
Confession time! I am a horrible housekeeper! My grandmother would be so at me everyday! How on earth did my grandma do everything she did in a day with her job, working the family farm, raising 6 kids & have a spotless house!!! Even when I lived with her, she was taking care of me, babysitting 3-6 extra kids a day, managing her my dad’s & my grandfather’s medicines (we had a pharmacy in our kitchen!), doing the bills, grocery shopping, preparing meals & a slew of other things she took care of for her ladies church organization… and she was RETIRED!
The month of June flew on by & July isn’t looking much better either! With my son is Baseball & my husband in our church softball we’ve been running around like chicken’s with our heads cut off! We had seven days that we didn’t have anything going in the whole of 30 days of the month of June, & most days we had 2 or 3 things going on in one day. The house cleaning I admit got shoved to the bottom of the list of important things to do in my day, and I didn’t think about it until I actually sat down at the end of the day or on one of those 7 days & then I just tried to ignore as much as I could. Now to be fair, the house wasn’t dirty, I mean there aren’t bugs or mice crawling around it’s just clutter. But oh how it piles up! And how can I expect the kids to complete their chores if I’m not doing any of my jobs? A friend told me that there is a law, it’s a natural law, it’s called THE LAW OF FLAT SURFACES – it means if there is a flat surface, things will pile up on it! At my house we embrace that law! Everyone here (my husband, kids & yes even myself) throws everything on the counter! After a week the counters look horrible, almost like we are hoarders! Then with all the clutter everywhere I feel guilty about the dirty house, if I spend time with the kids I feel guilty, if I clean I feel guilty, if I don’t do anything but relax I feel guilty. Guilt, to be honest SUCKS!
I have found that my own self inflicted guilt is worse than any guilt others may try & force upon me. So I am setting FIVE goals to help me erase guilt. I am addicted to Pinterest and found this Cleaning Schedule/Calendar for busy mom’s. I know that it’s for mom’s that have a full-time job, but hey why can’t a busy stay at home mom us it too!? That is my goal #1 is to follow the Cleaning Calendar, to make it work! The calendar came from a Tips & Pix blog by Pixingo I have seen other’s on Pinterest also but this is the one I printed out. I have switched things around, added things & taken things off it to fit my needs & the needs of my family. But the basic principle is the same. Goal #2 is to set weekly goals to complete. These goals will be tackling big projects in the house that gets ignored, such as cleaning closets, clean/organize scrapbook table, collect unused things for yard sale or Goodwill, spend family time together etc.. Goal #3 Use my planner more! I love my planner, I just don’t like the pages, and they don’t seem to help me with the things that I need to do! Goal #4 Spend less time on Facebook, Pinterest & online! This is going to be hard for me, I do most of my genealogy research online & I spend a lot of time on Facebook! But really what am I doing? I’m wasting time, I’m shutting my brain off & I’m getting lost in the world wide web! Goal #5 Do something once a month just for me! If that’s doing some genealogy or getting my nails done, I need time for me!
Ok so that’s the end of my goals & this post for the day! Off to do my morning chores & cut coupons! (Awe who am I kidding, I’m off to check my Facebook!! 🙂 then do my chores & cut coupons)
Echo's of Lost Footsteps 