School has begun for another year. The boys are getting back into a routine and so am I. It’s nice. The summer was fun; we were pretty loosey-goosey about a schedule of any kind. Now it’s nice to function in something more ordered. In anticipation of going back to work, I’ve been trying to sort some of the critical housekeeping areas into a schedule so I’m not doing laundry when no one has clean clothes for tomorrow, for example. I’m loving the fact that the boys are so much more self-sufficient. My oldest can do his own laundry and the boys have been assigned to clean the bathrooms once a week (this all started in our previous dwelling when I kept encountering ‘dribbles’ on the floor around the toilet; finally I told them I wasn’t cleaning up after them anymore and they were going to have to clean the bathroom themselves – they don’t have any problems ‘dribbling’ now but they’re still stuck with bathroom duty, hehe).
I have about a week and a half before I go back to work. I want to really enjoy this last little bit of time at home with my daughter. So I must resist the urge to ‘do’ more and more things around the house. I’m always finding more things to do and I know I’ll never be done, but still I keep trying to ‘do’ more. So I must be disciplined! I told myself I’ll only work on household projects when she’s sleeping. I did so-so today (I had her playing with her brothers when they got home from school so I could finish up something I was working on). It’s really hard for me to just do…nothing! But, enough about that. Tomorrow is a new day and I plan to enjoy it!