a night capper

Over Christmas break I allowed myself the guilty pleasure of blogsurfing.  It started off as something innocent enough, but now I'm hooked.  But what really got to me more that anything was the nagging question of how these women were able to balance everything.  So many moms are pretty crazy cool (myself excluded), working moms even more aplaudable.  I really don't know how some of these ladies manage their time so efficiently.  I constantly feel like I'm barely treading water trying to keep my head up and hold my breath in time for the next wave.  It's February, and I'm just figuring out some teaching organization/self preservation that I should have had August of our first year here.  It stinks reinventing the wheel. But, sometimes, it has to be done.  Anyway, if you've been reading the blopsplurt, you've read how consistency is difficult for me, however I'm pretty pumped that my new year's resolution is still going strong.  This year, I decided to go small.  So many moms have told me that they've just had to learn to "let go" of some of their notions of orderliness.  As you might know, I tend to go against the flow (if something's easy, I invent a new way so that I don't get bored) so my nyr is to "control" one aspect of my life.  My goal has been to make my bed in the mornings, silly I know, but hey, you've gotta start somewhere.  Now it's not always neat, but the sheets and covers get pulled up and the pillows moved to the top of the bed--pretty good if I do say so myself.
I may never get a genie in a lamp to grant me my wish of having two extra days off so that I could do all of the miscelaneous catching up, tidying up, tying up of lose ends I need, so until then, I'll pull the sheets up in the morning!