Can anyone say "Time management issues!!??"..
Yep, aha, thats me.. I spend so much time doing so many things, I actually end up getting nothing done.. Thats how it feels anyway... My head is always running, a million miles an hour, I dont sleep alot either.. You would think with an engaged brain and numerous 'awake' hours this little black duck would be able to surpass the relatively medium 'to do' list standards of the average SAHM.. well NO.. I dont, and cant seem to, even if and when Im trying my hardest..
I think I overload, or my brain goes on strike and I can spend a whole day in a messy house and pretty much have nothing done 8hrs later, yet I feel like Ive not stopped.. "Oh I'll just put this away in that room and then, oohhhh look what i found *new tangent* maybe I can just see if *different direction* Oh I havent yet.. but.. isnt.. when did.. oh thats.. jesus christ.. what the!!!??????????? I cannot even finalise a simple task let alone a sentence or thought..
So instead of excusing myself or explaining my actions or having guilts based solely on outside influences, I took a mini life Hiatus.. Ive spent the last 2wks, helping my middle child *yes the disabled one* settle into life at primary school **Quiet jump for joy**, cleaning out, bagging up, chucking away, writing rosters, making calendars, buying washing baskets, anything in which I may actually may make my life run smoother.. Why? because my brain sure cant!!
I own 10 washing baskets.. yep, 10.. I love my ecclectic but easy way of 'tidying' my house.. I shared this tip with a girlfriend the other day, I'd actually forgotten to do this for the last few months, so it was a good reminder to myself when explaining to someone how to make their life easier, how I could do so again in mine.. Here's my life easier tip for you -:
Washing Basket Technique 101
*Every morning when I wake, I put on the kettle #1, whilst it boils I go and make every single bed in my house..
*After I've poured the water and am allowing my cup to heat, I go and put a washing basket on every bed, every couch, kitchen table, bathrooms etc..
*Next comes kids, make brekky and set them to graze for 10mins, I then walk into every room and throw every single thing out of place, clothes, books, you name it in the baskets until it is completely tidy except said basket..
*You may have a possible pile of dirty dishes and a possible pile of dirty clothes in each room.. Realistically it takes 2-3mins to do this in each room if not less..
*Once you have done this you should realistically have -: one made bed, clear floor/surfaces, one full washing basket of collected crap (and possibly a collection of dirty dishes and a pile of dirty clothes) in each room.
*I then wipe down ALL surfaces in the house.. and put the dirty dishes in sink or on bench, takes less than 5mins (do the dishes later or chuck them in to soak whatever).. I then chuck the cleaning cloth and dirty clothes from rooms into washing machine and put a load on..
*Once that's done, kids are usually finished eating so they get dressed and they either have their half an hour morning of TV or they find something to play with before school, preferably not the washing baskets.. And then I Vac.. The whole house..
*So now I have a tidy house with made beds, and clean floors/cleared wiped surfaces and my kids are fed/dressed.. And it takes me a grand total of about 30ish-mins..
Yes I have filled up washing baskets of crap to clean out, but either my (older) kids can take responsibility for their own or I will do them in 10min spurts during the day if home or just hit them after work.. and bam, I am not feeling quite so overwhelmed and flustered as when I first looked out at my hell hole..
I hope everyone is enjoying the return to norm, I mean school ;)
Until the morrow
Mama, Madly...
