Still not so good!

Frustrated but not defeated....
Had the worse back-up of laundry in months...made me realize how on top of laundry i had been for so long-which is good.
spent a boatload of time on kids' renew last week. trying not to have a bad attitude about taht, but it's hard.
this week i'm prepping for the craft show..so i am allowing house work to be second this week. this weekend was frustratingly busy again. and jeff's busy schedule adds to the amount of work to be done.
SOO, just want to get through prepping this week (i'm really excited about some of the crafts i'm making) and TRY AGAIN to get on top of some thigns the following week.
then to pray majorly about what god wants me to do about this season...i want to see how things go at the craft show. i thinkn if i do well, and it looks like i can persue crafting more indepth-at least through christmas, i'll have to come up with some major organizational structures.
oh, it doesn't help that andrew has been waking up anywhere btw 5:00am-7:00am. the suprise of the morning....10:34 now. bad news.

Not doing good..

okay so did i fall off the bandwagon, or was i never even on it to begin with!?!?! it is 10:33pm, i should be in bed, but was working on renew kids stuff (spent a LOT of time on that this week) and then sidetracked by email. haven't checked my hot spot for a while, or used my timer much, or blogged. tomorrow is another day-can't give up!

Weekend and Project set-back

Ugh. I spent soooo much time trying to figure out how to burn a dvd of our videos with no avail. how frustrating to know i wasted precious time with nothing to show. i did a major clean up of the computer though in hopes that it would speed it up...it felt good to maintain it, but it doesn't seem faster. extremely tired...keep breaking my rules (it's 10:15) shouldn't be on here past 9:45 and i awoke to andrew at 4:45am today. gotta love daylight savings.

New TIMER!

Meant to lay down for a 5 min. power nap during kids' naps, but turned into almost an hour. i've been up late with jeff and up early with andrew so it's been catching up . i don't like sleeping that long...BUT my NEW timer will come in handy with that. i'm excited to utilize it lots. i think a big problem of mine is really not realizing how fast time is going by. i'll think i'm fine with time then before i know it it's way later than i thought. so it's a cheap digital timer from walmart, but it's portable and visible. off to do my 5 minute hot spot:)

Free'd up

Today i arrived at Bible Study EARLY AND my kitchen and house was left tidy and ready for melis and meg to come over for lunch:) then during nap... i actually didn't feel hard pressed to get things done bc there isn't a pressing "dirty" area of the house. i was able to enjoy going through Mailbox magazines for library lessons. even had a quick load of laundry folded and unloaded and everything in order without rushing before dad and trudy came to watch the kids.
Got super-side tracked with my 5 min hot spot tonight, but did attempt. it's 10:15, i should be in bed, but wasted time on dumb hollywood websites?!?!
didn't do my Savor blog...

Little Victories...with a toothbrush!

SOO, within the past week, I've been such a thorough cleaner that i've actually used a toothbrush---twice! I scrubbed the car, the bathroom and started the kitchen. Today I actually had the house tidy, the kids fed dinner AND bathed, and dinner almost completely ready by 7:00pm when Jeff came home. I visited with Megan, exercised, showered and even had some time to cruise around FB! Some days I actually feel victorious:) I'll have to remember days like this for the cruddy feeling days.

HOT SPOT

Flylady talks about Hot Spots--specified areas in the house where clutter ALWAYS ends up. I have quite a few, but the least managed is on top of my microwave. It's my paperwork. i have a binder system that is pretty good-but aparently isn't working bc a huge pile always arrives. So my baby step for tonight is to clear off that hot spot and each night spend 5 MINUTES clearing it....and utilizing my binder a bit more.

Here we go...

This is an old blog i had set up for a grad class...so i won't pay mind to the boring posts. i ike the name bc it suits my attempts at organizing my life. i just set up a separate personal blog...this blog i want to use just to chronical my journey to making the most of my time as a stay at home mom with a hard-working and loving husband, a spunky and talkative 3 year old daughter, and an active, high maintenance 1 year old son.
i have been trying to stay up with Flylady http://flylady.net/pages/cjmain.asp after i went to an all day workshop a year and a half ago. it has tons of great ideas--many that i have attempted to implement, but end up stopping. i'm feeling overwhelmed and frustrated with not getting things done. soooo, this may be another time waster or a motivator.
time to pray:
heavenly father-you know i love you and love this life you gave me. could you please lead me and direct me each moment of my day? you know my hearts desier is to make the most of each day and i feel i have a difficult time organizing the millions of thoughts that go through my head. even now as i think about how to go about organizing my tasks, my mind is racing with different ideas. help me to focus on you and to not get focused on my circumstances. so much of it is not eternal. i want to have an eternal perspective each day while balancing the must-do's of life. help me to prioritize correctly--
Pro 16:9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. i ask for you to determine my steps father. in your son's name, amen