Letting Sloth take over

[LuckyClown]

As my title suggest I have been feeling so incredibly lazy lately. It does not help that I have been sleeping horribly, waking up constantly for potty breaks, pain, and heartburn. I have been going to bed later and later as well because my husband gets home late and I stay up to spend time with him. On the down side I think he is also staying awake to spend time with me when he really needs more sleep.

So I haven't let it all fall apart, I have kept my kitchen and bathroom clean as well as keeping the laundry done- but not folded and put away. I really can't fold- well, strike that, I can fold but it is very hard on my back. There is no comfortable way for me to sit. Actually I guess that's not much different from anything else. I am really never comfortable lately. Sitting in any position either puts  pressure on my back or my ribs, standing puts pressure on my poor swollen feet, legs and back. walking is actually not painful at first, but after I do it for a while it makes my lower back hurt..then I waddle..then my back hurts more.

Ok i am done complaining because the real reason for my journal is to say what I have done, not what i can't do. Well I have signed my little ones up for karate. Faith started last friday and she had so much fun running and everything. I am really hoping that she learns some discipline and by golly maybe she'll learn to walk... without falling every five seconds. Krista was upset because she had to wait for Tuesday to begin her class. Well, when we got there she was the only student there. The instructor said some of the other kids from her class just came in with older siblings and took the class earlier. Either way she didn't really like being the center of attention, but fortunately Mr. Shea is a big kid and was able to actually teach her how to punch, and front kick and round kick, and blocking, all just by playing games with her. Now she refused to do the karate yell, (though I got an incredible demonstration of her ability to do so when we got home) and I think she maybe said 3 words to him the whole time but I really think she did enjoy it.

So yesterday I organized the babies room and washed all of her clothes and blankies. It was really more for me, because I loved looking at all of her baby stuff. I just went through everything and took off tags, threw away packaging, put things together etc. It was actually kind of nice to just sit in her room and get a feel for what I have and what I don't and picture what she might look like. Faith was home so she helped sporadically. She'd run in the room every few minutes in between drawing pictures. So i set up the room with the playpen  in one corner and my glider in the other. My glider chair is next to my bookshelf and there is a small table in between with a winnie the pooh lamp. I have a set of those white plastic shelves with a basket of baby toys on top, newborn diapers and wipes in the middle, and the bottom is empty. In the closet I have a million hangers and a whole bunch of diapers and wipes. I need to have my husband put up our winnie the pooh wall hangings but other than that her room is ready for her to move in.

Today I am totally unmotivated but I have an appointment for a massage and chiropractor consultation tomorrow so i decided to get some of my bigger jobs done. Let's give them some real knots to work out. So I am using Flylady.net's CHAOS method which had worked wonders for me before and I am alternating between living room, my room and the girls' room. The living room is looking much much better after only 15 minutes. But our room still needs a lot of attention and while cleaning I got the crap scared out of me by a big fake ant... I reached under a plastic bin to throw some garbage away and touched a leg... and maybe might have sort of screamed a little.  The girls room- sigh- is a whole other story.. I sat in the middle of this mess of toys, clothes and papers and just hit a mental block. (and it didn't take long to get this bad, we cleaned it really well not so long ago) I decided that all i could really do is seperate garbage and clothes from toys... there, three piles are manageable.... we can handle this. then my timer goes off... sigh.

so now it is break time- but my timer went off a few minutes ago and I didn't stop writing. Oops. Anyway I think since the living room is doing so well at this point I will just skip it and go straight to my bedroom again. i was making some sort of progress in there at least,,,

I just don't want to....

[MACY7108]

May. 28, 2009 at 7:32 PM

I was excited to see an update .  Keep on moving ! You are doing great.  Once you are done it will be so much easier to keep the every day stuff cleaned up.  Well, except for the girls room that is an ongoing battle you might have to lose sometimes