Time Management

In my last post updating on my large garden this year, I mentioned the issue of time management. You see I have always struggled with this. When you are a stay at home mom  you have time for everything. Laundry was always completed and put away, there was never a dish in my sink overnight, food was properly rotated in my fridge, and no chore was ever over looked. I miss that feeling of togetherness. There was never a rushed feeling of trying to complete everything and still spend time with those you love before you have to leave for work. I've been doing this for about 2 1/2 years now. It quite frankly sucks. I loved being at home, I loved taking care of my home and making sure everything was perfect.

Now for this spring, summer, and maybe even fall I'm returning to being a stay at home mom with my daughter. A blissful retreat from the busy chaos of the world. I haven't yet put my two weeks notice in. It will not be received very well I can guarantee that. But you see here are the dilemmas that I have encountered while being at work. Firstly, if my home was a mess it distracted me at work. Its like running an endless to do list in my brain. Secondly, if my child was ill or I was ill it effected my work ethic, it made me distracted, it made me not able to check in. Thirdly, then when I finally arrived home after a long day on my feet I felt terrible and thought about everything I could have done at work but didn't because I was too busy worrying about home. So I could never shut down "work thoughts" while home and I could never shut down "home thoughts" while at work.

Am I the only one who struggles with this? I know you are thinking who cares everyone struggles with that. But it has more to do with time management in my case than you think. If you can't fully check in to work or home, things don't get completed. And that right there is what truly made me crazy! On a good day when everything was completed at home I could focus at work. Not so much on the off days.

Let me say I have tried everything in the books to assist me in this and I'm just convinced it is impossible without outside help to do everything on your own without driving yourself into complete exhaustion each and every day. SO for this summer only I'm going to get my entire house back into a well oiled machine that will stick so when I do return to work the system shall remain intact. On top of that Alayna will have classes to attend this summer, my garden shall be built and maintained, and lots of adventures this summer in between to show it can be done!