I have been having trouble getting into a routine since we stopped our formal lessons for the month of July.  I seem to be forgetting things I usually do, and I feel generally disorganized.  I still use a list, but that doesn't help a whole lot when I forget to write things down.  One can only hope this problem will resolve itself once our lessons start back up....if it doesn't I'll really be in trouble!

It isn't that I'm getting nothing done.  I've worked on the basement--tidying up and getting rid of garbage that builds up over the winter--you know, those empty boxes that you have to take to recycle because they won't pick them up at the curb, and the overflowing garbage basket in the laundry area.  I've worked on the school area; and although it isn't quite done yet, it does look better.  I've worked on the computer--organizing and catching up with our finances.  I've worked on the file cabinet--and I've only got half a drawer left to do--and it looks TONS better!

It is the stuff I haven't done that seems to glare at me--the childrens' untidy bedrooms, the disorganized shopping list, the laundry (I'm out of routine because we were away), the meals (because my shopping list isn't organized, and because I would rather clean than cook most of the time), the weeds in the yard, the stuff in the garage and on the porch that needs to be gone through, and the general clutter in the house.

On the positive side, the children are helping a lot more!  Right now they are with their father, raking up the cut grass at the church.  Both help load and unload the dishwasher, Belle can put soap in and start it now, and they do help with the picking up of stuff.  Of course now they make more mess too because we aren't doing lessons every day.  But they do work hard.

Well, I'd best be off to do something--before I have to make dinner.  Anyone else suffer from increased fuzzy thinking in the summer?