Many moms have goals of improving themselves. We are never fully formed and I think the addition of children that we are modeling proper behavior for intensifies our need to improve ourselves. After all our children will learn by our examples and we need to be be modeling behavior instead of just telling them how we want them to act. In that spirit I am constantly working on improving myself. I generally try to work on one thing at a time, or at least to concentrate most of my energy on one thing at a time.
One of my big problems is my inability to keep up with housework in general. I of course understand what needs to be done to keep the house in order, and it is constant cleaning, you can NEVER stop if you want to keep it neat, especially when following after 3 girls. On top of not wanting to endlessly clean I tend to go off on tangents in life. I pick up a good book and the world stops, I start a craft project, I begin a project with the girls, I start baking or cooking, I research something on the internet and normal activity ceases. I have yet to learn to balance it all, and I don't know that I ever will. The worst thing is that my scattered living impacts the girls lives. They live in a cluttered house, they don't have normal chore schedules, or even a consistent expectations. I then invent ways to get things into a sort of normalcy that will work. I spend hours creating these plans, researching others ideas and in the end I institute them and they last days.
So here I am off on a tangent of an idea to make this work. A friend has suggested getting rid of 2011 things in the year 2011. I'm down, if we can diminish the number of things maybe it will make cleaning and keeping things organized easier, maybe it will make getting started in projects easier. We shall see. So far, since this morning I have plucked 102 items from drawers and closets. I'll keep you posted.
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