I mentioned the other day about how out of sync thing have been feeling lately. My to do list feels like a man eating plant or like I’m drowning in a raging sea. At the end of the day, I just never feel like I’ve accomplished very much.
I have the Easy Daysies magnets up on the fridge and have been trying to update it each day (if there is a change from the previous day) and Lil Roo and I have been talking about it a little. He isn’t at the point of thinking to look at it each day (and I’m not at the point of fully utilizing it so I don’t always mention it to him), but he was pretty excited about it when I first put it up. Kids love to know “what’s next” so I think it really will be an asset to us once we utilize it more.
I’ve been thinking about creating something similar to the Flylady Control Journal. I’ve tried it before, but never completed it, so I never learned if it would actually help me or not. I think just getting a better routine for basic cleaning would do wonders on its own, instead of feeling like its a mad scramble when a few things need to be done. Small things seem a lot bigger when you already feel overwhelmed.
One area I have REALLY been wanting to work on is menu planning. Hubs works 24 on and 48 off (not taking OT into account), so I’d like to plan out 3 weeks worth of dinners - figuring in items he isn’t crazy about on his shift days. Figuring on 5 dinners per week (the other 2 can be grill out or eat out nights), that is 15 meals I need to come up with, schedule, print recipes, and weekly shopping lists. I tend to grab the deals + a few basics and just wing it - which doesn’t work out so well most of the time, LOL! The deals do, but not so much the winging it part.
The work in progress continues….
I’m def open to ideas & will continue to update on my progress on this as well as other areas I have been thinking about (more on those later).
1 November 25th, 2009 at 9:42 am
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