This week I am meeting with a case management person, they help with a lot of areas in your life and for me, I have requested that this woman come into my home, sit down with me and talk about my day. I have always joked about wanting to be on SuperNanny but when the cast calling came to my local area and I received an email to get on the show, I got choked up. You see, I need SuperNanny help but I don’t want to be on television, honestly. I love sharing my life here, being honest, outspoken and upfront but having cameras in my face and the kids faces isn’t something I think would fit for us.
Since so many people tell me I do so much or that I do it all, I thought I would give you a peek into my world, you see, my dishes are not always done. My house is a mess half of the time and I am simply not keeping up with organizing my house in the way I want to. I will tell you straight up that I will never be a clean freak type of parent, I would much rather have a safe and healthy living environment that looks more lived in, but I do wish to find a way to fit household chores into my schedule on a regular basis to ensure the house looks a bit more tidy than you see in these pictures.
May I tell you all that the above picture is my dining room area? Yes, it is. Now this room or area also starts off “clean” totally spotless most days, however, I have been so overwhelmed with everything I have on my plate right now that picking up the crayons, random board game parts and what have you that are laying all over this area has not been something I 1) had the ability to tend to while running around with my 3 year old son and 2) had the energy to deal with.
Now I am not making excuses for myself, I am aware of what I want to get done in a days time. This includes having plenty of play time with the kids. I honestly can do it all if I have to, but where do I start? This is why I really hope meeting with this woman helps me to get moving forward in having a schedule set in place that allows for family clean up time on a daily basis as part of our wind down time before dinner or before bed in addition to setting forth a more structured environment for the children to thrive from.
How do you keep on schedule or set forth a routine when you are home 24/7?
Every room has a day assigned to it and so I do a deep cleaning of that room once a week and it’s not too overwhelming for me to try to do the whole house at once!
I think it really helps to write down exactly what you want to achieve each day. You could go day by day or plan a whole week or month at a time 🙂
Maybe the outside reinforcement of family cleaning will help…and if it does, come have the person speak to my 4-yr. old, would you? 🙂 He’s going through a ‘move my furniture to the closet and tear down the clothes to dress up’ phase, and boy does it make a mess in his room (and you know taking things down is a lot easier than putting them back… especially when you’re 4 😉 ). We’re working on it, but progress thus far on the issue is s-l-o-o-o-w.