Organization

Being a Mom of many, many children organization has been a challenge of mine. I have continually struggled to find balance between work, housework, children's needs, my own needs, being a wife and sleep/relaxation. Concentrate on one thing too much and I end up shanking another. Patty-baby used to be content enough to sit in the "patty chair" while watching me cook and clean. These days, as mobility takes over, she is more content to try and sommersault herself out of the chair while whining for Mom to pick her up.

So, I find myself turning to "Fly Lady" (www.flylady.net) in order to resume some order in the chaos that has resulted. Fly Lady's first tip-- start with a clean sink every night before you go to bed. While I have always tried to make sure dishes were done and loaded before bed, it was never my ultimate goal to make sure the sink itself was absolutely empty and clean. I started with this last night, got up this morning to make my daily macchiato (have I mentioned that balance includes a great deal of coffee??) and was greeted by a sparkling clean sink. What a happy way to start the day! LOL I plan on continuing down the righteous path of Fly Lady-ness...resuming our "Saturday morning clean up", aka everyone-get-your-butt-up-and-clean-this-house, we have "clean sheet Sunday" (crap, I think patty-baby was a result of clean sheet Sunday.. you never know the effect that fresh sheets have...) and also designating Sunday as being bread baking day and official laundry day, ensuring the kids have everything they need for the week clean.

Deep breath... one step at a time and I will figure out the balance of it all and not feel a bit guilty.