My schedule has been out of whack for quite some time now.
Does this ever happen to you?
You finally get it right. The laundry is done, the house is clean (or clean enough), you've checked things off on the do-to list and then you still have an hour or so each evening just for you.
Then you don't.
It doesn't seem to happen a little bit, it happens in a huge chunk.
You discover you're buried.
Why does this happen?
Am I alone in this?
Today I am sitting here looking around at the tasks that lie before me and I'm feeling overwhelmed.
Not completely, but enough.
The next three days will be chaos.
Then it should be okay.
It's time to schedule things and get them done.
Does this happen to you?
Do you feel this way sometimes?
How do you handle it?
If this never happens to you, how do you prevent it?
I may have the flu, or a cold, or something all together different, but I feel icky.
Can't rest. I've got costumes to finish and parties to throw.
How is your week coming along?
6 comments:
I'm at an age where organization is essential and rest is necessary. If I am away for a weekend or just really busy, I MUST stay at home the next or (like you), I'm completely out of whack. Staying at home and cleaning and organizing is in-a-way a kind of rest for me. After being away last weekend, this weekend is my stay at home. Phew!! Thankfully, my girls can all take care of themselves and their trick-or-treating; I just hand out the goodies from inside my (hopefully) clean, organized house! Good luck to you.
Living where I do,and having staff, I find that I have a lot of time on my hands. I still help folding laundry, and I have to have my bed in my own way, but I spent yesterday in London, so I have catching up to do today, but I will never forsake my on-line friends! Lots of things "happen", and we can't always control them, we just do the best that we can and hope for the best!
Things have a way of sorting themselves out, with or without you, so, my advice would be to stop worrying about them! They will still get done!
I am currently looking at a home with a crazy amount of to dos and I don't know where to start. Sigh.
Here is what I do...
I allow things to just move out of my sphere of notice...and close the door for awhile. This takes strength...amazing strength.
May be laundry. May be something at work. May be a kids need (gasp). Then everything fits...and everyone finds their way for that moment (or it just doesn't get done...and the world has not ended yet)...
Then I can focus again. Fresh. Renewed. Me.
They call it blinders. Harumph
This week all my plans have been thrown to the wind due to sick kids.
And now a sick mommy. Who still had to run in a 5K yesterday with Isabel. Almost killed me. Slept like the dead last night, thanks to nighttime flu medicine.
Now I'm suffering from a Nyquil hangover, sucking down some coffee and trying not to cough my lungs out...
Laundry, dishes, housekeeping; I can't even think about it.
All that being said, I know exactly what you mean. I just don't have an answer.
All the kids have left home, I'm working part-time instead of full-time & I still can't find Millie time! You have an excuse Suzann - I don't!!
Millie ^_^
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