Hope you all had a nice Mother’s Day. I am a full time working outside the home mom. I’ve been one for years. It works so well for me, I think I’m a better mom for being a working mom. The problem is that I bought very early into the philosophy that says you can’t do it all, and have become very lax on the housework side of it. We ‘re not at the income level that I felt comfortable having house cleaners, besides, I couldn’t face picking up the house for the cleaners to do their job.
Here’s the problem – the kids, two of them, anyhow, have learned my terrible habits. Bryant’s room was so bad you couldn’t see the floor. Then he started sleeping in the family room because he couldn’t make it to his bed. The other night he had the nerve to grump at me for disturbing him at 2:30 in the morning when I was combating sleeplessness with blogging. Whose family room is this anyway?
Time to attack the problem. After hauling out three garbage cans of junk, a bag for the Goodwill, and a box of garage sale stuff, we recovered four laundry baskets (none of which contained dirty clothes), three bottles of allergy nasal spray and two full containers of Folex spot remover (I wondered where they had gone and why were they in his room?) He now insists that all he wants in his room is a mattress on the floor – the minimalist look. Trouble is that he still has too darned much junk and no place to put it. He won’t even have underneath the bed space to stuff things. Any creative solutions? Anybody want to take him in and return him trained? Just asking.
Yikes, my computer monitor screen, the one attached to the CPU with all my photos and blog stuff, is black and has a message, something to the effect of: config.sys is not available or damaged… So I’ll dig through my laptop and find a photo to leave you with. How about an FO: a v-shaped shawl made from Heavenly yarn:
Life's a Stitch 
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