“There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going.”
There is so much to do and so little time to do it. Last night I was laughing at myself. I was so extremely tired and all I wanted to do was kick my feet up on the couch and veg. However what I want to do usually gets overridden by what I need to do. So when I got home I took some laundry out of the dryer and put it away. I sat down on the couch for a minute and had to sternly remind myself that I needed to strip my bed and put the sheets in the laundry. I did that and again found myself wanting to stop. I had great excuses for not doing what I knew needed to get done. . . like I would get it done tomorrow. It didn’t work. I was back on my feet and upstairs to scrub my bathroom. Then I took out the trash and did some light cleaning in the kitchen.
When I finally figured that I could sit down for a minute I was reminded with an incoming phone call that I still had more things that I needed to work on. At this point I did push off pull weeds and cleaning the back porch in an attempt to get it ready to plant tomatoes this weekend. The phone call was from my bishop with the topic for my talk in Sacrament meeting on the 17th of this month. This reminded me that I still need to prepare for the classes that I will be teaching on the 16th for the Stake Relief Society Enrichment meeting and the Relief Society lesson that I haven’t even looked at that I am teaching on the 24th of this month. All of which are on totally different topics. Anyone want to be my sounding board and give input as I talk myself through preparing each of these? Good thing that I completely enjoy being in front of others and teaching or life would be really ugly at my house for the next couple of weeks. There was much inspiration in completing my degree in Public Speaking. Amazing how much clarity there is in hindsight.
(Confession: I absolutely love speaking and being given these opportunities so don’t think that I have my hand to my forehead about having to actually do them. It is just funny that they are all happening right at once, but it won’t be the first time and more than likely, not the last either.)
While I was scrubbing the tub last night I was also doing some random thinking. I had to smile because I realized that within the last week I have had four women tell me that I am going to be a great mom. Then three of them followed through and asked me if I had ever considered having children being single. Honestly I have thought about it, but have realized that it wouldn’t be fair to those children. I don’t think that children should be raised in daycare and that is exactly what would happen if I had children because I would still need to work full time. They will just have to accept that I claim their children as my own with the privilege of spoiling them and then sending them home. Anyway, I just put blackout curtains up in the bedrooms and that means oh so much more sleeping in!
Anyone have any grand ideas on the best way to clean blinds? Spring cleaning here I come. . .
There is so much to do and so little time to do it. Last night I was laughing at myself. I was so extremely tired and all I wanted to do was kick my feet up on the couch and veg. However what I want to do usually gets overridden by what I need to do. So when I got home I took some laundry out of the dryer and put it away. I sat down on the couch for a minute and had to sternly remind myself that I needed to strip my bed and put the sheets in the laundry. I did that and again found myself wanting to stop. I had great excuses for not doing what I knew needed to get done. . . like I would get it done tomorrow. It didn’t work. I was back on my feet and upstairs to scrub my bathroom. Then I took out the trash and did some light cleaning in the kitchen.
When I finally figured that I could sit down for a minute I was reminded with an incoming phone call that I still had more things that I needed to work on. At this point I did push off pull weeds and cleaning the back porch in an attempt to get it ready to plant tomatoes this weekend. The phone call was from my bishop with the topic for my talk in Sacrament meeting on the 17th of this month. This reminded me that I still need to prepare for the classes that I will be teaching on the 16th for the Stake Relief Society Enrichment meeting and the Relief Society lesson that I haven’t even looked at that I am teaching on the 24th of this month. All of which are on totally different topics. Anyone want to be my sounding board and give input as I talk myself through preparing each of these? Good thing that I completely enjoy being in front of others and teaching or life would be really ugly at my house for the next couple of weeks. There was much inspiration in completing my degree in Public Speaking. Amazing how much clarity there is in hindsight.
(Confession: I absolutely love speaking and being given these opportunities so don’t think that I have my hand to my forehead about having to actually do them. It is just funny that they are all happening right at once, but it won’t be the first time and more than likely, not the last either.)
While I was scrubbing the tub last night I was also doing some random thinking. I had to smile because I realized that within the last week I have had four women tell me that I am going to be a great mom. Then three of them followed through and asked me if I had ever considered having children being single. Honestly I have thought about it, but have realized that it wouldn’t be fair to those children. I don’t think that children should be raised in daycare and that is exactly what would happen if I had children because I would still need to work full time. They will just have to accept that I claim their children as my own with the privilege of spoiling them and then sending them home. Anyway, I just put blackout curtains up in the bedrooms and that means oh so much more sleeping in!
Anyone have any grand ideas on the best way to clean blinds? Spring cleaning here I come. . .
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