“Create beauty in our lives and homes” Proverbs 31:22
I’m in a housekeeping funk. I have used FlyLady’s “routine” before, and have come away with a lot of good, basic ideas I can use for my family. I did try to do the emails, but they were getting out of hand for me and so I’ve got a household notebook now that I’m trying to “build” with routines that I can refer to until I get them down pat.
What I am finding in myself is a situation very similar to what Sheya describes: working a full time job with small children makes it very easy to come home absolutely exhausted and say, “I’m too tired to do (this or that)…” And, of course, there is the excuse that I’m a single mom and it’s sooooo tiring driving to work and school and keep up on my housework alllllll by myselllllllf. (Can you hear the whining in my voice?) My mom told me last night that if I can’t have the President over, my house isn’t clean enough. This frustrated me, because I grew up in a house with six children and two parents, and our house was NEVER that clean.
Do you think it is different when you have two children as opposed to six? or does it depend on the attitude of the parent and what he/she instills in him/herself and the rest of the family? Maybe that’s the funk I’m in… maybe my attitude needs an adjustment…
Attitude problem or not, I believe it’s true that how you keep your house is how you keep your life. I am constantly forgetting something, or losing something, thus creating more stress in my life than is otherwise necessary… so it is my goal for 2008 that I put more effort into creating consistant beauty in our life and home.
