That’s what I need: Focus…and a plan…and some determination. The problem is that I feel SO incredibly overwhelmed. I hope I don’t appear that way, though. I really want to look like I have it together. Fortunately none of my kids have taken a picture of me with my head in my hands pretending that the the world is not spinning.
Anyway, I am very much a list girl. I like writing lists. I like marking them off. I like looking at them. They look so nice. I don’t always finish what is on my list, but it give me a place to start. A while back I put together this beautiful household notebook that had all my routines and schedules in it. Each page was in a page protector so I could still mark things off, but later could clean up the page. Naturally, with any good system, it takes consistency and the ability to be flexible. The thing that I loved about my notebook is that when I was having a bad day and didn’t know where to begin I could just look at my book. Of course, there were some things that had to be done that aren’t part of a routine. I would put them on a post-it note on the day it needed to be done. I’m thinking that I need to get back into this notebook. I’m not sure why I didn’t keep on with it. My life is very different than what it was almost 2 years ago so the many things will be changed, but at least I have a starting place.
I won’t be home until Wednesday, but when I get there I’m going to drag it out and start working on it. The first thing I need to work on is finishing up the decluttering of books and school stuff. I’m going to be ruthless. I’ll have to do it while the kids are either napping or down for the night so they won’t whine about keeping some random piece of paper that they can’t even decide what it is or who it belongs to. I’ll post pictures of the progress with my binder and the cleaning up.
Not a whole lot is happening that is blog worthy. Well, it may be blog worthy, but not 35×35 worthy.
