Blessings From Home

And while I'm at it...

I might as well share some other goals needing to be accomplished this week. There's a feeling I get every year when the holidays roll in of so many things needing to be done in preperation, and for the first time, we are not only preparing for the holidays but also a new baby. All my other kids have been born in Spring or Summer time, so this will be an especially busy holiday season.

It doesn't help that these last weeks have been very uncomfortable for me. I'm having problems that I never experienced with the other three babies. It's somewhat expected being that this is my 4th baby, and I am a lot busier this time around than I was with the previous three, but I always enjoyed being pregnant right up to the very end with the other 3, and this time, I can't help but count the days already. It's hurting to walk, it hurts to sit, it even hurts to lay down sometimes. I'm having an extremely hard time breathing, but at the same time having to go to the bathroom every hour all day and night, which both are something I've dealt with before, but never at the same time. (Picture me, running to the bathroom, out of breath, constantly, not a pretty picture). All of this to say, that even though I would rather be layed up in bed for the remainder of this pregnancy with a portapotty right by my bed, there are still many, many things to be done.

I've already shared my crafting goals here. So here are some other things needing to be done this week.

~Continue maintaining "clean" rooms. These are the rooms that I have already spent cleaning and decluttering and have them just as I want them. So far those rooms include the family room and the master bed and bathroom.

~This week's Flylady zone for me is the bathroom and one other room. I have lots to do in the bathroom including scrubbing everything down really well, and organizing the cabinets there. For the other room, I've decided to get all the kids clothes switched over and put away for the fall/winter season, something I needed to do a few weeks ago. We have lots of clothes that need to be gotten rid of. We are always being blessed by others of clothing for the kids, so much so that we end up having too much most of the time.

~Keep up with daily routines and basic weekly plans, which will help in maintaining the clean rooms in the house.

~I would also really like to start working on a rotating fall/winter menu so that I can make ahead more things for the freezer and also make grocery shopping a bit easier. I would like to make a list of breakfast meals and lunch meals that we can eat on a weekly basis, and then a rotating menu for dinner.

So basically by week's end, I hope to have the family room, master bed and bathroom, and main bathroom all cleaned, decluttered, decorated, and most importantly maintained on a daily basis through routines and daily cleaning. The one thing I've learned is that if I can get these rooms cleaned the way I want them, then they are so easy to maintain if I just keep up with them on a daily basis. My bedroom for instance is such a nice place to retire to at night time and sometimes for little breaks in the day, because I spend all of 5 minutes making my bed and putting away things where they belong.

I'm off to bed for now. It's been a long, cold day. We did our shopping today with hubby helping and went ahead and paid bills so that I don't have to get out tomorrow. It's getting a bit too hard for me to do a lot on my own, so my husband's been helping out as much as he can, God bless him, and putting up with my mood swings besides. lol. Have a blessed day!

sara