It's amazing how many more cherry blossoms there are after just a few days!
Today's Ten on Tuesday topic is a fun one but I don't have a list. And yesterday was pretty much wasted so I don't have anything interesting to share. I spent most of the day getting my car repaired (8AM - 1:30PM) then ran home and took Emma to the mall so she could visit with friends. This was followed by a quick salad then a church council meeting.
But today I am going to shake all that off and get some serious work done. (I especially have to shake off the car repair. Toward the end it was not a good wait and the repairs were expensive with more promised at the next service.) Monday is my day to do the laundry, clean out the fridge, make a grocery list and clip coupons, and get the trash gathered. None of that happened yesterday aside from getting one load of laundry done. Fortunately I don't usually schedule much for Tuesdays so I should be able to get caught up.
I can get a lot done each week when I am able to stick with the schedule I've developed. (Sticking with it is often a problem!) How do you divide out your chores and responsibilities?
Ugh! I hate car trouble. I've only been a stay-at-home-mom for about 8 months, and I have changed my schedule around a million times. What's working best for me is to only schedule certain activities a couple of times a week and leave the rest open. At one point I spread it all out over the week, and I would finish days feeling disappointed when I saw less result than expected. My current schedule: grocery shopping on Mondays, scrub tubs and showers on Tuesdays, do an all-over cleaning on Fridays during Jude's nap. I do one load of laundry everyday to not get overwhelmed, and this works better than a "laundry day" for me.
Posted by: Katie | February 22, 2011 at 08:22 AM
I hope you feel caught up by the end of the day today!
Posted by: Carole | February 22, 2011 at 10:52 AM
sorry to hear about all the car repairs! that can be a bit of a downer. i don't have a set schedule, although i typically try to shop for the week on sun or mon. i try to do most of the washing/drying on monday but it usually takes a few days to get it all folded and put away, and by then there is more! the rest i just fit in when i can!
Posted by: vanessa | February 22, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Love the cherry blossoms! Amazing how the branches look bare hardly any leaves but it's flowering.
I don't schedule chores :) I do them when I absolutely have to eg, my son has run out of clean school uniforms so his laundry needs to get done. You can tell that I'm not very fond of chores.
hope you're having a good day!
Posted by: erin | February 23, 2011 at 12:22 AM
i'll have to check our trees, no blooms yet-maybe it's the way we're facing. i've developed a good routine, and when there's an unexpected hiccup i can usually get back on track pretty easy. i try not to worry too much when it does happen. even though i had tuesday off it was spent zipping around town, but wasn't the weather gorgeous. i too hate car repairs-makes me want to live in NYC where i can walk, use the subway or bus.
Posted by: lydia | February 23, 2011 at 08:23 AM
This has been a week of getting nothing done for me. I totally understand how frustrated you feel.
Posted by: KM | February 25, 2011 at 01:52 PM