Aug. 3, 2006 - Well, well, well.
Lets see- it is now August. The summer is half gone. I'm good with that as long as the 110 plus heat goes with it!
I have been struggling to just keep things afloat. Like cooking dinner, all the watering to be done, HSing, and most of all LAUNDRY! I'm a bit sick of laundry. I don't mind doing it so much but the point where it needs to be folded and put away often escapes me. ( I will admit to greatly missing my large front loading w/d that I pat lovingly as I brush against them in storage almost daily.) We are in a temporary living situation which could last for a few months, or for many months and space is tight. PTL we have enough to function, but still putting away laundry is a chore. I can't stand things piling, and yet it piles until I'm driven to distraction and MUST do it. That was last night. I simply had to put it away. Usually it goes like this- Oh i need to switch laundry, run dwn strs and switch, then I realize later I need to switch again, so I do, and I or an older child will carry it up stairs, and put it on a table while to be dealt with...later while I'm running to the next thing to be done- like dinner. I don't mind cooking dinner in my own house, but here it's a bit more complicated as I strain my brain to try to remmeber in which of the 4 possible places is the ingredient I need located.
I have realized that I have let my temporary situation mindset creep too far into the actual functioning of my family/routine. It's so hard when you are living ina house not your own with other people! I have trouble enough keeping myself on track in my own house. I think the Lord is teaching me to R-E-L-A-X. ~harumph~
So tomorrow we are finally celbrating ds's 13th B-day with miniature golfing, cake and everything. It's only been 6 months. Poor boy didn't even get a cake on his actual B-day, much less a single gift and he's been sooooo patient! We were moving and dh was in a really intense project, so it had to wait. They tyranny of the urgent has finally loosened it's grasp!
I am going to try to do this at least once a week from now on. For a bit I was locked out of my blog for some reason, and for the other part- simply swamped and disorganized reaching for the life preserver!
Til later~
