Finding Contentment

Tomorrow is always fresh

03:56 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 2007 .. Posted in Family .. 1 comments .. Link

One of my biggest challenges in homesteading thus far has been keeping an organized house. I have discovered that when the house becomes unorganized, our lives become unorganized.

When the kitchen is a mess I can’t seem to get busy cooking dinner, which means we run out to a restaurant at the last minute. When the bedrooms are messy we can’t find anything to wear, which means we are late to wherever we are going.

But that whole concept often works the other way around, too. When our lives are too busy and unorganized, the house ends up that way.

As long as I work hard, the house will stay organized through the week. But it seems like every weekend there are a thousand things to do, places to go and people to see – which means the house becomes an unorganized wreck.

This weekend, even though I knew it would be as busy as the last, I set a challenge for myself that I would manage to keep the house organized. I failed miserably, and hubby noticed.

Saturday, Sunday and even Monday was chock full of things I had to do that couldn’t wait, but they were all things outside of the home. Grocery shopping, a baby shower, church, a Cub Scout field trip on Saturday and scout den meetings on Monday, a brother I promised I would see, another brother who needed a babysitter… the list goes on.

So today when I got up and realized the house was still a wreck, I became discouraged. And I just feel sooo tired… I’ve been dragging around all day. It doesn’t help that my 3-year-old has been on my heels all day insisted that “we go bye-bye.” I don’t want to go bye-bye!

Though I did manage to do a load of laundry and clean the kitchen, I just can’t get otherwise motivated today. Ever have days like that?

Meanwhile, the kids aren’t getting much schooling today, the gardens are calling my name (although I am ignoring them) and the laundry is continuing to pile up. There is so much that needs to be done that I am feeling a little overwhelmed. But writing has always been therapeutic to me… so here I am blogging.

I am going to just try and get through the evening and dinner tonight without a catastrophe, and I am praying that I will have a better attitude when I wake up in the morning.

When I was a girl I loved “Anne of Green Gables.” And I still try to live by something someone told her.

“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.”