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Okay just towels and washclothes but Alaina can do it!!
Part of becoming a SAHM goal was so I could have more control over my house in terms of maintenance. When working full time I found that my house was totally out of order! And that is no exagerating. My kitchen was never clean and that is the room that everyone enters from. The kids toys where a mess and over taking the play room and living room. My new office was in disaray. Our bathrooms needed clean desperately. The upstairs has not been vaccumed in probally 2 or 3 months if not possible 4 or 5 months. Mike and I’s bedroom was the worst. Clean laundry was all over our bedroom floor, NOT folded. My wonderful amazing hubby took over doing the laundry about 6 or 7 months ago, thank goodness. But it was up to me to fold it. Well I never found time to do that. I barely had time to deal with the semi clean mess I had.
One of the goals I have set when I found out I was going to be a SAHM was I need and want to get my house in order. I long for a clean orgainized house. BUT before I could get there I needed to excavate through the months and months of mess that began to pile up. But I found I need to do that somehow around working 25 hours a week for CCWS and tending the kids and dealing with Strep Throat. I thought this would be no big deal. WRONG!!! I found later it wasn’t going to be so easy. I started by finishing organizing my new office (pictures coming soon). I figured if I was going to work from home I need to have a good office that way when I sit down I can actually work. Then I decided to do the dishes, but even with a dishwasher I had a little bit more dishes then would fit in one load. So I decided I was going to wash the rest by hand. Well I washed two dishes and the kids woke up. So that was the end of that. Not to mention I still needed to make dinner. So that meant more dishes to go on the pile. UGH! Two steps forward and one step backwards. I also vaccumed and dusted the living room. I started folding the pile that was on my bedroom floor. But never completed it. And somehow I got 2.75 bhours of work in here. That was Wednesday. That was after being at my parents house (working, not visiting) for 11.5 hours on Monday. Tuesday I was tired and the strep throat returned so I was pretty much a bum and just took a day to spend with my kids.
Then there was today. Thursday started off good. Thomas slept in until 7:45 a.m., which is wonderful considering that he is usally up at 6 or 6:30 a.m. everyday. Once he woke up I decided I was going to get some work done. I did for about fifteen minutes and then it was time to give Thom his cereal. He ate and then Alaina woke up. So we just hung around playing. I decided then lets finish the wash. Okay well it isn’t finished at this moment but we are getting closer. I have about two-thirds folded. That is an accomplishment. While I was working on the wash, I discovered Alaina is very good at folding towels and washclothes. I am so excited since that is one less item I need to do. So where do I stand in my goal. Well, I need to still accomplish about 10.25 horus of work for CCWS and need to still finish all the laundry folding and somehow accomplish the rest. But I guess my thoughts of what I could accomplish was bigger then what I really could. Oh well. I now have the time to get to all of this.
I thought I share how my week is going and how proud I am of Alaina for helping me around the house. I need to go feed Mr. Thom!
Kari
