Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Where do I begin????

First the good news....my father in law just left to go back to south Georgia!!!!! Yea!!!!! He has been here since Friday and stayed with us the whole time...what is it they say...garbage and company start to stink after 3 days....I totally agree.

Now the bad news....my house is completely wrecked and I don't know where to begin to clean it up. There are toys all over the place, the floors are nasty, the kids rooms look like a bomb went off, dirty laundry is overflowing, breakfast dishes are in the sink calling my name, the bathrooms are a disgrace and even my car is a mess and needs to be cleaned out! I don't know what to do first so I thought I would sit at the computer and complain about it for a minute which is doing absolutely no good at all....smart I know.

I have a goal of pacing myself and getting the house whipped into shape today before Jamey getts home. He made a snide remark yesterday about the fact that I was home all day yesterday and the house looked worse than when he left that morning. (I bit my lip to keep from saying that actually I was gone for 2/3 of the day because of Riley's Easter activities at school and the McDonald's lunch fiasco and during the 1/3 that I was there I was kept hopping by our kids and HIS dad!!!!!....Lord please give me strength to not smack him when he says things like that now that I don't work.)

Well, I guess I really do have to get up and start the monsterous task of making this house livable again....where is a fairy godmother when you need one...or a magic nose that you can twitch and objects magically put themselves away....ahhhhh if only! :-)

2 comments:

  1. You'll do it! I have all the faith in the world in you ;-) I learned from staying at my daughter's house for a few days that a stay-at-home mom is a much harder job than working at public employment. Men can't handle it...they are jealous and don't have a clue!

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  2. Hi Joy! I just found your blog thanks to April. Being a SAHM is so hard, but in the end I think it is worth it all. I'm glad your stinky house guest is gone.
    Have you ever heard of the FlyLady? She has a wonderful system to keep your house in order. I stop and start frequently, but things work so much better when I follow her system. I'm not sure why I don't do it all the time.

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