Being My Own Best Friend

For the past month I have been consumed by multiple projects and have been kinda sorta neglecting my blog. For that, I'm sorry. I am working on a better time management schedule than I currently have and well, there are lots of kinks. The biggest kink, is that it's summer, Mike is working crazy hours and well, everything falls to me. I am simply overwhelmed. So, to keep my sanity I have been trying to get online and post every few days, while trying to maintain my house.
Can you say failing miserably?
I have been neglecting the mountain o'laundry and it is now overflowing into my kitchen. If I let it go any longer, I will not have to worry about cooking, which is not such a bad thing, but you get it. The peeps are getting tired of pizza.
Seriously though, the mountain o'laundry is taking over my "new" used couch and getting wrinklier (is that a word?) by the second.
But I digress.
I have also been trying to get the kids ready for school, get them caught up on some learning and spend some quality time with them where I am not shooing them away or shushing them.
Sigh.
That's my mommy guilt coming out.
We have not done as many fun activities as we normally do because I have either been attached to my laptop or out and about working on my various projects. So, with school starting in three weeks, I have been trying to spend more time with the peeps doing kid stuff.
Like movies.
So far this summer we have seen Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Night of the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Transformers, Imagine That, Xmen Origins: Wolverine and tomorrow, we are going to see G-Force. Truthfully, I am popcorn and movie candied out, but the kids love it and as long as they are happy, it is all good.
With all the hot temperatures and the really wet monsoon like weather, we have been utilizing our Netflix subscription. We get like five movies a week from there and the kids watch them while I am either working or out and about.
We did go to our little water park a couple of weeks ago and it was so hot, the kids lasted only an hour before they were asking to go home.
Weird, huh?
People come to Florida from all the cold places and look forward to the sun and the heat. My kids? They run from the heat and the sun. This year has been so unseasonably hot that they are okay with being in the house for the first time ever.
The kids have been to our community pool exactly one time and that was with Mike and the water was greenish.
Yeah.
So glad we pay our maintenance each month for green, ear-infection causing water because they are too cheap to fix the pool the correct way and it has a crack that messes with the chlorination.
This has been a blessing (of sorts) in disguise.
Kind of .
Now I can say I have been avoiding it so the kids wouldn't get sick. Sounds good, eh? Turning my negatives into a positive I say.
We also have visited McDonalds and a couple of the play areas in several of our local malls to escape the hot and wet weather. We have eaten lots of ice cream, had between 3-4 pajama days per week and had a few game nights as well.
Hmmm...reading over that list of the things we have done, I guess I am not such the mommy slacker I thought I was. Changes my perspective a little to see that list in black and white.
How about that.
This summer is just not as activity packed as previous ones where we are on the go and hanging with all our friends at the pools and such every day.They are on a much slower and uh...relaxed pace, while I am flying on my broom from place to place.
Thus, my mommy guilt issues.
Basically, what I am trying to do, is get a handle on the chaos and reign it in before my head explodes.
Just sayin'.
Now trying to shake my mommy slacker title, I am going to be my own best friend and say I am doing a terrific job with the kids and neglecting my household duties. I have successfully given birth to several interesting projects that now have to be implemented and created. I also have created a rather diverse and educational reading list that is piled high on my dresser, as well as on a request list at the library, in the hopes that I will actually get to read and retain the information contained in them. And even though I sit down on the bed or the couch to read and I am out cold before getting to the end of the page and wake up an hour or so later, and hike my butt to bed or to turn off the lights, I have a plan. I am perfecting my osmosis learning so I can write an e-book, sell it and make millions. Finally, in keeping with being my own best friend, I have put off beginning my Weight Watchers program because it means I have to cook and purchase healthy foods, exercise and not cave into my emotions and stress by eating. Since I am destined for failure at this particular time, I am postponing my weight loss objectives until the the kids go back to school and there are no popcorn buckets, movie candy, McDonalds and ice cream to suck down and enhance my waistline.
Yep.
I am whipping my circle of chaos into shape.
Oh and by the way, round is a shape.
Get it?
Thought so.