It's Big and It's Bad but I'm So Cute!
And really...what else matters?
Every once in a while I just get overwhelmed. No. That’s a lie. I get overwhelmed ALL THE TIME! This morning was one of those times. Lovely wasn’t napping. The dishes were piled high. I was trying to get everyone ready for Church, keep the kids entertained and feed them breakfast and lunch while making dinner. 1:00 Church is a pain for that very reason. I have to do three meals before we leave for Church or we don’t have anything to eat when we get home at 4:00. Today I was making chicken pot pie which I don’t know how to make and I didn’t have a recipe. Isn’t that brilliant? I wanted to try a new pie crust recipe so that was that. I ruined my Sunday morning all for a pie crust because I ended up making it twice when it didn’t look right the first time.
I got the older two ready and took them to Church in my sweats. Then I came home with Lovely, finished up the pie, got us both ready and then headed off to Church. So what if I missed the first two meetings. It was all I could manage today. I find that I can rarely manage everything I have lined up for myself. It just seems like I should be able to do everything. Why? Why do I keep thinking I can do it all when time and again I have proven myself wrong?
I have got to cut back somewhere but I don’t know where. All the changes I want to make include MORE of everything. Spend MORE time with the kids. Get the house cleaned up MORE often. Put MORE effort into my Church callings. Make MORE meals. I haven’t done any yard work all summer because we don’t have a yard. That will just be one MORE thing on my list. I don’t know what to give up.
You would think, with a baby that takes a four hour nap, I would have time to accomplish something during the day. Well I do. That’s the time I spend with the older two. It’s the only time we can play board games together, read together and do dishes together. Otherwise we’re fighting with a 1 year old every moment.
I don’t know if there are any answers here. I think Mothers throughout time have had and will continue to have the same dilemma. But I’m ready to take a stand and here’s what I’m going to do about it! I’m going to get up, put away the pile of dishes I just washed and then go to bed! Take that big bad world!!!
Every once in a while I just get overwhelmed. No. That’s a lie. I get overwhelmed ALL THE TIME! This morning was one of those times. Lovely wasn’t napping. The dishes were piled high. I was trying to get everyone ready for Church, keep the kids entertained and feed them breakfast and lunch while making dinner. 1:00 Church is a pain for that very reason. I have to do three meals before we leave for Church or we don’t have anything to eat when we get home at 4:00. Today I was making chicken pot pie which I don’t know how to make and I didn’t have a recipe. Isn’t that brilliant? I wanted to try a new pie crust recipe so that was that. I ruined my Sunday morning all for a pie crust because I ended up making it twice when it didn’t look right the first time.
I got the older two ready and took them to Church in my sweats. Then I came home with Lovely, finished up the pie, got us both ready and then headed off to Church. So what if I missed the first two meetings. It was all I could manage today. I find that I can rarely manage everything I have lined up for myself. It just seems like I should be able to do everything. Why? Why do I keep thinking I can do it all when time and again I have proven myself wrong?
I have got to cut back somewhere but I don’t know where. All the changes I want to make include MORE of everything. Spend MORE time with the kids. Get the house cleaned up MORE often. Put MORE effort into my Church callings. Make MORE meals. I haven’t done any yard work all summer because we don’t have a yard. That will just be one MORE thing on my list. I don’t know what to give up.
You would think, with a baby that takes a four hour nap, I would have time to accomplish something during the day. Well I do. That’s the time I spend with the older two. It’s the only time we can play board games together, read together and do dishes together. Otherwise we’re fighting with a 1 year old every moment.
I don’t know if there are any answers here. I think Mothers throughout time have had and will continue to have the same dilemma. But I’m ready to take a stand and here’s what I’m going to do about it! I’m going to get up, put away the pile of dishes I just washed and then go to bed! Take that big bad world!!!
Labels: My Life
posted by The Lazy Organizer @ 11:18 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Whenever I feel overwhelmed, I just lower my standards and everything seems instantly better!
How profound is that? I wonder when I'll get an offer to pen a line of self help books?
There's no better word for it than "overwhelmed." And any mother who says she doesn't feel that way quite frequently, is either lying, or knows some secrets she'd darn well better share with the rest of us.
I plan on writing "The Houswife's Survival Guide" someday, or something along those lines.
That's if I ever figure it out.
Elastic - Ya, lower standards. But only if we can all agree to it.
Kimberly - I'm still waiting for my map!
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