Back from vacation....buried in laundry

[Sigh]

We're back from our amazing Disney vacation. Isn't it incredible how it takes forever to plan a trip (we started planning LAST June) and then it takes forever to count down the days until you leave and then the entire trip rushes by in warp speed?

I really think that you should be able to freeze time when at Walt Disney World.

Anyway...I have a gazillion loads of laundry staring at me (OK, it's really just five or six)...so I'm not posting much now.

I'll have some trip report posts coming up.

See ya real soon!

It's a new year!

Yes.
OK.
I'm sure you're well aware that it is now day two of 2011.

And, I actually wrote the CORRECT year on the checks I had to write today.
I consider that a victory for me.
It's the small things, you know?

So...new year, new resolutions?
Nope.
I don't make resolutions.

Why?
Because I never keep them.
(Really who does?)

I've made resolutions in the past - you know, "I'm going to lose 40 pounds, and get in shape, and balance my checkbook every day, and only drink Starbucks on days that end in 'y' ".

Things like that.
I never, ever, ever keep those resolutions.
Well, except for the drinking Starbucks thing - I CAN do that.

Sure, I could set "goals" or "make plans" ... but really, I know what I need to do.
I just need to DO THEM.

Today, I cleaned out the home office.
I found nearly a year's worth of pay stubs and bank statements piled up on the floor in the corner.
OK. I didn't really "find" them...more like, I FINALLY put them away in the file cabinet in their proper folders marked "pay stubs 2010" and "bank statements 2010".

(And at this point you're probably thinking my home office looks like something from "Hoarders" ...but really it doesn't. It was one small pile in the corner, out of sight. You know..out of sight, out of mind.)

See?
I got 2010 all organized.
On the second day of 2011.

What I need to do is put things away in their proper folders as we receive them.
And after I balance the checkbook, which needs to be done on a regular basis and not just at the last minute every Sunday night as I'm writing the very painful $266 weekly check to daycare.

I also put all the laundry away.
Today.
The same day that it was finished.
You know, instead of just digging through the basket and then "rewashing" the unfolded laundry because I don't want to be bothered with putting it away.

I am learning!
It's not that I'm lazy or messy or any of those things.
Actually I'm sort of obsessed with keeping the house clean.
it just seems like certain things always get put last on my list - like laundry, which I detest.

But....
I have felt very unorganized since mid-2010.
I need to be organized..for my own sanity and peace of mind.

And yes, I need to lose weight.
I'll work on that.
After the two birthday parties next weekend and Emma's party in three weeks.
(heehee)

So, in 2011....I will get MORE organized, drop some lbs, put the laundry away, file things on time, and blog more.

We'll see how this all worked out in about 363 days.

Happy 2011!

I'd like about 5 more hours in a day, thankyouverymuch

No really, I would.

I need more hours in a day.

I need my days to be about 29 hours.
Give or take an hour or two.

I have found that I don't have enough time to get things done.

Case in point - my laundry from last week is still sitting in a pile on my hope chest in my bedroom. My laundry from this week? It is in the laundry basket in the laundry room.

Yes, I realize that this is horrid housekeeping and I make no excuses. Other than, I run out of time every single day. I feel accomplished when I get Olivia's and Emma's laundry hung up and folded for the week. (And on the weeks I don't 'accomplish' that, it all goes back in the wash. With that week's "new" dirty clothes.)

Oh my gosh.
I'm totally airing my dirty laundry.
Right here.
On my blog.

Oh crap.

So there you have it.
I suck at laundry.
I'm a horrible housekeeper apparently.
It appears that my kids are lucky to have clean clothes every week.

While I'm confessing, I might as well address dinner.
I made pancakes for dinner on Monday.
And then on Tuesday we had take out.
And on Thursday we had Little Caesar's 'hot and ready' pizza.
Because I didn't want to cook.

Wow.
Apparently I also suck at the whole 'cooking for my family' thing too.

I realize I had SO MUCH MORE time to do everything I needed to do (laundry, cooking, washing the hardwood floors, watering my flowers) when I wasn't working. And it's not like The Job is a full-time gig either. I'm only at the office 24 (very long, tedious, horrid) hours every week.

That gives me two days a week when I DO have time to get stuff done.
But it seems there is always MORE to get done.
More laundry.
More cooking.
More paying the bills
More Swiffering dog hair off the hardwood floors. (Every. Single. Day.)

And quite frankly, I'm tired.
Very tired.*
And no, I don't want to fold laundry at 8 o'clock at night.

I used to have the whole bill paying thing on a schedule.
I have been a bit forgetful lately.
I've had to pay some bills online at the last minute because I FORGOT to mail them in time.
Don't even get me started on this blog.
Dear blog, I am so sorry for neglecting you. For an entire week.

Holy crow.

I am a train wreck.
I'm unorganized.
I'm stressed.
I've got more gray hair than ever before.
My day planner needs a day planner.

I think I need to relax.
Breathe.
Calm down.
And realize that I am NOT supermom.
Nor will I ever be supermom.
Sometimes the laundry won't get folded. And we will have breakfast for dinner.
And I might even skip a day of Swiffering. Maybe.
I can't do it all.

But, Olivia told me today that I'm "the best mom ever" and well, that's good enough for me.
Laundry be damned.


*And no, I am not asking for sympathy here. I'm merely venting. On my blog. That's it. Nothing more. Nothing less.