I have been feeling very overwhelmed lately with all the things I want to do during the day and the small amount of time I have to do it. I feel like I go and go all day long, doing dishes, playing with the girls, folding clothes, making dinner, reading books with the girls, and then all I can think about at the end of the day is all the things I couldn't get done. Working out, blogging, reading, crafting, and relaxing are all pushed to the back burner, unfortunately.
There isn't anything on the list that I want to sacrifice. The health of my family and the foods we eat are important to me. So is teaching my girls about the world and playing with. I don't actually want to do dishes or laundry or cleaning, but it's something that has to be done. So, I feel like I am so busy doing those things during the day, that I don't have any more room in my schedule for the forgotten things.
(As I am writing this, after I have carved out a time to blog while the girls are asleep, of course the maintenance men finally come to fix our door and wake Vivi up. So, now I have a helper.)
I think the biggest ways to help this problem would be to use my time more wisely and get organized with what I want to do each day.
- Waking up at 5:30 with Asa has really helped, and I get to use that time to do whatever I want to do for me, child-free.
- I am going to start making a To Do list each week with all the random tasks I want to get done. I love making lists. I used to make them all the time, and I have no idea why I got out of the habit. That step has already helped me. My brain is running out of space for things like that.
- I am also going to purge our house of all the things we don't need. I am so much happier when my house is clean and organized. I think our days run smoother and I can think more clearly. The clutter around our house is getting out of control and I am ready to get rid of it.
- Another goal is to stop wasting so much time on the internet. I love ready blogs and checking facebook, but it is such a time-sucker. I will literally waste an entire nap time on facebook, and I always regret it afterwards. So, I am going to limit myself to only getting on facebook and blogs when everything else is done.
Lastly, I am going to make myself a list of goals for the fall. These are things that I want to get done before Thanksgiving. Some will be easy to find the time for and some will be a little more challenging. But, I will feel better when they are all done.
Personal:
lose 15 pounds
run a 5k in september
run a 10k in october
write three blogs each week
get in bed, without my phone by 10 pm
make the time to exercise at least 5 times per week
Family:
go pumpkin picking
start asa's application on USAjobs
go camping as many weekends as possible
get outside more
go to the library at least once a week
make my mama's chicken pot pie
House:
put up some rain gutter bookshelves in marley's room
clean out every room and closet in the house and donate as much as we can
organize my printed recipes
Crafts:
sew my first diaper (and hopefully a few more)
sew each girl a pair of pants
organize marley's artwork into a notebook
Books:
the happiness project- gretchen rubin
the unschooling unmanual
teach your own- john taylor gatto
I will probably end up adding more things to this list, but for now this seems sufficient. I hope making an official list will give me something to look at and work toward instead of it all feeling like a jumbled mess inside my head. I need organization to make my head happy.
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