Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Summer Schedule – Week 2

June 14, 2020

Another week has gone by rather quickly and here we are already in the middle of June! After last weekend being really hot and almost unbearable (our poor air conditioner cannot keep up when the humidity is high), this week has been cooler and less humid and far more comfortable.

The housekeeping plan is going well – I have done the Flylady thing for many years so I know what to do. The zone this week was the kitchen and early on I didn’t get much done, but we had a leaking faucet in the laundry room on Thursday which meant a plumber had to come out to fix it. Nothing like a crisis to get you off your butt and get stuff done! So, I dusted the laundry room from top to bottom which made it cleaner immediately and only took 5 minutes. Then I wiped down all my kitchen cabinet fronts and I also spritzed cleaner and wiped the floor around the edges which are always the dirtiest. Well, can you believe it – I didn’t even apologize to the plumber for the way my house looked because I felt it looked okay! For once I acted like I was proud of my house and didn’t feel ashamed. Now that hasn’t happened in a really long time and let me tell you it felt so good! That victory should help keep me going.

As far as the menu plan thing weeeell, I’m planning meals at least, but I keep forgetting about tracking. That said, my eating today was all.over.the.place. And seriously, I need to stop it. It’s not helping. So, this week, I need to at least focus on just one thing – like water – and do that one thing each day. And not worry about losing weight but getting some better habits under my belt.

And about that daily schedule thing, well, not so much on that either. However, I am keeping to the more strenuous work in the morning and the lighter stuff in the afternoon schedule. This way the majority of the housework is done and in the afternoon I can usually relax and do something I like or want to do. And that is just as important as keeping a nice house.

Skincare is going well and really, I’ve been in a skincare routine a long time – I just bounce around with products with no consistency. Consistency is what gets your skin where you want it. I keep getting drawn to Sephora thought to see what’s new, but have to say, no, this is what I’m doing now and stick to it.

I want to touch on reading because I decided to do a Bible Study for the next 4 weeks. It’s called Flourish by Elizabeth Foss and covers the book of Romans which is timely because I had started reading Romans and felt the desire to study a little further. I also bought a book called Make My Life Simple about burnout and taking back your life a little at a time. Hmm, sounds familiar. :-) So far a good read.

Going forward I decided to distill my daily routines into one list on one piece of paper. The list is how I originally did Flylady way back in the day and so it’s what I know. I slipped it into the cover of my binder so I can check off with a dry erase marker each thing I need to do. The whole point of this summer schedule is to streamline and simplify and five pages of lists is too much. I need to just cut to the chase and truly make my housekeeping simple.

I’ll end with a little story. When I went to Walmart recently on that big grocery haul, the guy behind me in line mentioned that he’d been living in Alaska for 7 years and I said I didn’t know if I could do that. He said that it made him stronger and then he said, “You need to get strong”. And I just looked at him – it was almost like a divine message. Then I said that the last several years had been so rough that all my strength was gone. Basically I’ve been barely surviving for a long time. And it shows in many ways. That man is right – I do need to get my strength back (physical, mental, emotional) and this schedule is a start.

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June 14, 2020

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