Day 24

Man, organization is time-consuming!  I tried to finish off back-to-school shopping yesterday so I was barely in the house.  The only thing I managed to do at home was a couple loads of laundry.  Hunter is not helping out with his room as much as I hoped he would.  The other day as I was tidying it up, Hunter sat on his bed, pouting.  When I finished I asked him if that was better and he said "You messed it up!!"  So - okay then, agree to disagree.

I've purchased the kids' agendas to put their organization list into and I've barely finished my own.  I don't know how people do it - how do you suddenly organize your life?? I'm sure one of the answers is "baby steps" but I am extremely impatient with myself.  Do it now! Finish it now! And when I can't because I have other things to attend to - well it gets me grumpy.  Somewhere though, I have this optimism that perks up and says "it's okay, one step at a time".  Breathe.

I've completed the last of the laundry so that I, too, can have tomorrow off.  The weekly home blessing is complete and so that is out of the way as well.  I think one thing that we Moms need to try our best to do is work for that day off.  Especially if we're out of the house.  I used to like it (and even suggested to the hub that we do it more often) when we were expecting company on a Friday night.  It forced us to move along during the week and Saturday was truly our day off.  Granted, I usually had school work to do, but it beat laundry and vacuuming.  And if the house was already clean, I definitely felt less guilty about doing something else.

And speaking of something else, I have some kid's agendas to get moving on so have a happy weekend and I will see you in the living room next week.  Or in my case, since the living room is still very well organized, back at the Master bedroom.  That is nowhere near complete and as luck would have it, this month's InStyle magazine focuses on purging your unused clothing that is taking up way too much space in your closet and dressers.  Still don't want to do that, but kind of getting tired of looking in my closet and thinking "I don't want to wear that"... so, don't - get rid of it!  Wise words...