Now I'm finally doing it- shining my sink! One side is soaking now and then I'll do the other. It's raining here so I'm letting ds watch a video while I flip through my control journal, check out the new stuff on www.flylady.net and get my sink nice and shiny. As long as I take babysteps and don't let dh (he has SHE tendencies, too, including ( Read more... )

Turns out my MIL & FIL won't be coming to visit this weekend after all. Dh will bring Pie & Cakes home himself after the kayak trip ends in his hometown. Now, I still want to get the house in better shape. But now it will be for me and my family and I can go at a reasonable pace instead of major crisis cleaning.  Hallelujah!

I am in a very deep rut. Just can't seem to get going. I've had all week to get moving on cleaning my house, weeding the garden, getting organized for back-to-school, and I haven't done any of it. I'm disgusted with myself for being such a procrastinator. Instead of working when G-man is playing or watching TV or sleeping, I nap or get on the ( Read more... )

Feeling better today.  What's changed?  My wonderful friend AH cut my hair and the girls' hair yesterday, the kids are actually getting along and entertaining themselves without the TV(!), we just sold both of the  toddler beds that have been taking up mega-space in the basement playroom, I think I found some bedding online at JCPenney for the kids ( Read more... )