It's been one of those super busy days here at the Honeycutt Household.  It seems like my whole house was in a shambles!  I've worked on the living room, kitchen, basement, and my new pantry  

I have SO MUCH clutter.  I was just saying that earlier.  I swear I try really hard to declutter, but there is just SO MUCH.  I'm thinking one of my main problems is paper clutter.  My desk is overflowing with it.  Even though I have a nice big drawer to keep important papers in, they never seem to make it there.  I also have a coupon organizer, home organizer, and holiday organizer.   On top of that I have several folders and binders to house all the homeschool paperwork -- so why do I have paper everywhere I look?

After going through certain people's blogs who shall remain nameless, I feel like such an inferior mother, wife, and homeschooling mom.  I intend to do really great crafts and unit studies and then end up trying to shove in math and reading at the end of a busy day instead. 

How do some Moms seem to have so much time to devote to elaborate crafts and lesson plans and field trips and nature walks and reading endless books to their offspring?  I am obviously doing something wrong.  *sigh*

Will I never be the happy homeaker?

So anyway -- we have the holidays looming and then the whole New Year.  Instead of a bunch of lofty ideals of  how to improve my life through resolutions -- I am going to go back to the basics again.  The 3 R's.  (Like I have talked about in my other blog)

Religion, Relationships, and Responsibilities. 

The three areas of my life that need the most strengthening.  So, on this note, I am going to figure out exactly what is most important in each category and make a modest list of changes which I will try to incorporate in 2007.  So we won't be calling them "resolutions" round here!  Back to basics!

Sorry to complain all the time!  I am going to now post another post about what we will be doing for this week -- complete with the crafts that I HOPE will get done by Thanksgiving.

Sherry