My brain is full. I'm losing ground on the home field and its driving me nuts! I need to try and get ahead of the game for meal planning and I spend all the time planning and failing on the execution! How do you do it cousins? How did you do it Mom? I want to try and curb our nasty eating out habit, but I just can't get ahead of the game here. The key to this is the crock pot, I just know it. I find these great recipes, but then I don't get the crock pot thrown together in time and the eating out cycle continues! Alaina is so hungry by the time I get home I end up throwing poor meals together. How often can you feed your child fruit cups, mac and cheese and vienna sausages before she refuses to eat them?
I need a vacation, but not a relax vacation, I need an organizational holiday. I've been wearing knit tops for the last three months because I'm afraid to dust off the iron. I haven't updated Alaina's photo album, or any for that matter, since her birthday last year. I need to go around and clean out the cobwebs from the upstairs corners. My nice clean upstairs has a laundry basket full of stuff that needs to be put in the right spots. And I can't even elaborate on the state of the kitchen. I feel like I'm still moving into my house, things just can't seen to find a home and stay there.
I need a weekend to turn the music up loud, turn off the phones, and just tear into it! I'll eat all the leftovers in the fridge, no dirty dishes this way, and get it all done! The last day needs to be for errands to get the recycling to the center, donate the stuff I have boxed up, and get on top of things! The main question is, when the heck am I going to do this? Someday. And that someday is hopefully coming soon.
Update
Right this very second, the super nanny is at the mall . . . I feel like I should go pick up Alaina and go have her touch the nanny to see if I'll have life long luck with her good behavior! But all I can think is . . .who would let this woman in their house? What kind of state must your family be in to go to such drastic results and let the whole world witness it? Ick, oh and I bet she's loving the weather!! No playing outside for her! I wouldn't let her in my home that's for sure. I'd stand on the porch saying thank you very much and don't let the door smack your tush on the way out!!
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You ask how I do it? I don't, not really. But the key is in the trying. You get little things done here and there during naps. You get other little things done after bed time. It's all in baby steps, pun intended.
There's no such thing as a mommy holiday, huh? It's so 24/7. And I love every minute!
I remember saying to OM's mom, "I didn't get my flowers planted. Your flowers always look so nice." and she said, "You have little children. Raise you children now and then raise flowers."
My friends who did it all now love being grandma's because they "sit down and enjoy playing with (their) grandchildren. (They) didn't take the time to do that with their children." I couldn't believe it! I was always envious of their ability to look perfect, have perfect yards, cook perfect meals and go and go and go. Now I find out the missing part- they didn't spend time with their children. I spent to much time with my children. I even did laundry with them, one in the laundry piles, one in the hamper, one throwing clean clothes into the dirty piles and one on my back. I still laugh thinking about my juggling ability. I also remember staying up until midnight one night to make a menu that planned one month and I never redid it but used that menu for about 10 years. I do regret that one of my outings with my children was shopping. I should have taken them to the library more and to the park more. I just had to get groceries, diapers, etc. and so it was convenient to use that as a family outing. We got a freeze and cheese popcorn at the mall and looked at books at the bookstore and toys at Woolworths and then stopped at McDonalds to get a meal on the way home.The kids were so happy.
I also know that I was at home and so was D so we had lots of time. I know what it did to me when I started working full time. I am still trying to recover from that. I kept the schedule of an at-home -mom but worked full time outside our home. Crazy!! But I loved every second of being a mom (except for the middle school yrs then only 90% of the seconds.) and still tell D "thank you for being supportive of me being home for 8 yrs.
Give yourselves a break young moms. Anyone who judges you wasn't a working full time, full time mom, full time wife, not across the road from their mom/mother-in-law.
Go Moms Go!
I agree with "Mama". Times are so different. We ARE hard on ourselves. People look at me and think all I do is sit around and eat bon bons because I am a stay at home mom. The thing a lot of people don't look at is that I run a business from my home. Which not only adds bookkeeping and the like, but 4 more kids to my tally. We CAN do this. And we WILL look back and think how much it really WAS worth it. I love love love my life. I wouldn't change it for the world.
One thing that I will do for meals is on Saturdays make up some casseroles and put them in the freezer. Pyrex is a DREAM. GET SOME. The kind with lids. And then, the night before, take one from the freezer and put it in the fridge. When you get home, give Alaina a small snack (or keep fruit chews, etc, in the car) and warm up the casserole. It really isn't as hard as it sounds. And if you have the Rosedale Centennial cookbook, there are some perfect recipes in there for such a plan. If you want some tried and true in my home, let me know I will give you the page numbers. Also, the meatball recipe OM posted freezes/reheats AWESOME!!! Give it a shot. It sounds like it takes forever, but after you make them a couple of times, you will get it down pat.
Stay strong, KT. You are a wonderful mommy with a lot on her plate. When I had Zack and Jenna so close together, N-O-T-H-I-N-G got done in my house. Ask your sister. It was close to Armageddon. Even now, it's not perfect, nor will it ever be as long as the kids are living here. But I keep telling myself the "Settle Down Cobwebs" poem and go on with life with a smile in my heart.
LOVE YOU!!!
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