Why am I completely unmotivated? My house is a wreck, the yard is a wreck, my car is a wreck. I haven't blogged for exactly 2 months. I have literally hundreds of pictures waiting to be retouched so I can print them out and actually have pictures of my daughter up or post them or email them to people.
And yet, I have zero drive to do any of it.
Every. Single. Room. In my house is in need of organization and a good scrubbing. Seriously. Every single room. Sure, we have people over every Thursday night (and sometimes moms come over on Tuesdays), but I don't clean...I tidy. I vacuum the living room, pick up the toys and paper piles, clean up the kitchen and make sure the guest bath/J.J.'s bathroom isn't completely disgusting. It's "good enough for government work", as some old folks might say.
But truth be told, I'm tired of my house and yards being only tolerable and livable. I want them to be cozy and homey, yet nice-looking! Well-decorated! Clean!
I read blog after blog about organization. I look at magazines. I even try to find inspiration from friends' homes. I get fired up about cleaning out the junk, sorting through the giant piles of c-r-a-p, and either pitching it or selling it somewhere.
But what happens when I get home or log off the computer? Hadley wakes up from her nap. Or I have to go pick J.J. up from school. Or....(insert excuse after excuse in there).
I'm too tired to get things done, but I'm so tired of them looking the way they do that I'm about to snap.
Does anyone else feel like this? Anyone have a solution? Or an afternoon free? :)
A Little Mood Music
4 comments:
Heather...all I can say is...YES. I am EXACTLY where you are right now. Maybe we can help each other decide what to toss. I just can't motivate myself to do it, but it's making me crazy. We should just set a date & have a double whammy garage sale. Plan it, and make it happen. At both of our houses.
ANGER or FRIENDS!
When i'm angry i usually do major organizing cleaning. But when you're not angry. Make sure you have friends. Take it one step at a time. Set goals. While this show is on I'll get this corner done. During this hour, this piece will be done.
and yes, I've got two full weeks of free afternoons to help you be the best cleaning organizing mom out there!
That all sounds too overwhelming. I say break it into tiny accomplishable tasks. Set a timer for a tiny amount of time - 10 minutes? - and set your goal for some specific like organizing/tossing towels. Work as hard/fast as you can for 10 minutes and hten move on. Pretty soon all your little bursts will add up!
I feel ya. I go through spurts of this. Then all of a sudden you'll get the bug and you'll get on top on things again. It's just a season. Remember, never let "urgent" get in the way of "important". Enjoy your kids.
Song for a Fifth Child
By Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
but I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.
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