I’m a mom learning to balance my family, faith, and writing career.

Spring Cleaning!

Not only does my house need a spring cleaning hose down, so does my daily routine. It seems since Christmas I’ve been off schedule. The only thing on schedule is my exercise routine. Though if you looked at the scale you wouldn’t be able to tell.

I keep putting my house and my daily chores off. Eventually they get done…by my mother who’s living with us for a while. :) But what happens when she leaves?

I tell myself after I turn in this WIP I will __________. You name it! And I really mean it. It’s just that when I only have 6-8 hours a week to edit and half of that time is interrupted by life )and the next few weeks it will be interrupted by field trips, school plays, science fairs and Americana Day,) it seems like AFTER will never come.

So I think it’s time to move up AFTER to tomorrow! Well, maybe the day after tomorrow! I need to put my house back in order (literally and figuratively) and probably the best place to start is writing out a schedule! Something my choleric self hates, and my melancholy self loves, but soon after I write up the schedule it gets interrupted throwing me…off schedule! Big sigh!

But a lack of planning is a guarantee that not a whole lot is getting done. So it’s time to do some spring cleaning, no matter how much I hate it! It’s time to reorganize and regroup and maybe make a spread sheet or two (haven’t done that since homeschooling!)

Who knows, maybe, just maybe I’ll finish my WIP sooner than expected and have a clean house and home before summer!



Categories: Daily Grind , Getting Real , Goals , Uncategorized |March 31st, 2008 |

4 Comments

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  2. Georgiana Daniels

    Clean houses and schedules are a beautiful thing. Getting there is the tough part. I’m with you!

  3. Sarah Lee

    To me, I love the process of writing the schedule and feel so organised and refreshed as I piece it together - but then a week or two later, if I’m not keeping to it and things aren’t getting crossed off, I’m so hard on myself!

    Good luck!

  4. Gina

    Sarah Lee, I know what you mean. Homeschooling I loved making detailed scheduled, but it was so hard to follow them. That’s why I’m reluctant to do it!



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