So I made it through Day 2! Yay! I got dressed to my shoes ( I don't own lace ups, but they are sneakers so they don't just slide off!) and shined the sink before bed. Then, I had a day when I was barely home at all, so there wasn't much to do to make things messy OR clean things up. Then, my two year old got sick.
When I say my two year old got sick I mean that he woke up suddenly at about 12:30am, with a cough that sounded like a barking seal. He was having trouble breathing and it scared him so he was crying. I knew he'd be okay if he would just calm down. He was getting enough air to scream so calm was the only thing we needed. I called my mother-in-law (a RN) who drove an hour to get here with her stethoscope. He had to sleep sitting up that night but I didn't get much sleep which means I lazed and napped and napped and lazed all the next day and didn't get anything done (I didn't get dressed OR shine my sink). And today, I'm quite miserable dealing with whatever illness he had for myself. Needless to say, while I have accomplished quite a lot today, I did not move forward on my FLYbaby venture.
At any rate, now I'm behind a couple of days. I can give up or I can move forward. I'm opting to move forward. There are a couple of ways to move forward and I'm not sure that I know the "right" way to do it. But I'm not going to let perfectionism keep me from moving on! Not this time!
My options are to count the days I was sidetracked as days 3 and 4 and 5 and pick up on day 6, OR to pick up where I left off and count tomorrow as day 3. I have decided to go with the latter. Tomorrow I will be picking up on Day 3!
I will catch up with you tomorrow or the next day depending on how cooperative my hubby and my computer are! (See my other blog for details on THAT situation!)
Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Day 1 - Done!
I did it! I did my first day of the beginner babysteps! I shined my sink yesterday! I had to do a bit of other housework too because I had company coming over yesterday evening, but I put my focus on getting the sink shining! I felt so good after it was done I couldn't help but wipe down my stove too! You know, even though I ended up doing the dishes too it didn't take that long to do. I had a shiny sink to greet me this morning and it was great!
Skepticism is still creeping in. I find myself still thinking that just because I was successful today doesn't mean I will be tomorrow. We'll see how that plays out over the next 30 days.
Skepticism is still creeping in. I find myself still thinking that just because I was successful today doesn't mean I will be tomorrow. We'll see how that plays out over the next 30 days.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
When does "The Beginning" Begin?
Wow! I wrote my first and last entry more than three months ago. I pray this doesn't set the standard for this blog. No! It can't!
I've been somewhat - paralyzed when it comes to starting this. It's almost like when you know you need to diet and you just keep saying, no, I'll wait until Monday (or January, or next week after our out-of-town guests leave). Excuse after excuse keeps rolling through your mind. Fear of failure and a not-so-driving perfectionism keep us stuck right down in the mud of our own unhappiness (unhealthiness?). That's where I've been for three months, friends. Down in the mud. Wishing that this place were cleaner, more organized, less cluttered. That I were a better housekeeper. If ever I felt like getting up out of the mud, I'd get so overwhelmed by all the mud around me that I'd give up hope and push myself right back down in the mud again. After all, when you're already that muddy, what's a little more mud going to hurt?
Last night I was inspired. I got in the bed and picked up some reading material. This time it was the notebook that contained the print out of FLYlady's 31 beginner baby steps. The thing I'd always looked at and scoffed. For some reason last night I looked at it and it all seemed so easy. Sure, at first it may take a while. When you haven't cleaned your bedroom in a year it's going to take a while to clean it! But when you take baby steps and clean a little at a time, by the time it's clean all you have to do is maintain. You're already used to the little at a time approach at that point and if you just stick to it you never have to "clean" your room again.
All of that to say - It begins TODAY! No looking back! I may not be perfect. I may miss a day here and there, but I'm going to do this. Starting with a shiny sink.
I've been somewhat - paralyzed when it comes to starting this. It's almost like when you know you need to diet and you just keep saying, no, I'll wait until Monday (or January, or next week after our out-of-town guests leave). Excuse after excuse keeps rolling through your mind. Fear of failure and a not-so-driving perfectionism keep us stuck right down in the mud of our own unhappiness (unhealthiness?). That's where I've been for three months, friends. Down in the mud. Wishing that this place were cleaner, more organized, less cluttered. That I were a better housekeeper. If ever I felt like getting up out of the mud, I'd get so overwhelmed by all the mud around me that I'd give up hope and push myself right back down in the mud again. After all, when you're already that muddy, what's a little more mud going to hurt?
Last night I was inspired. I got in the bed and picked up some reading material. This time it was the notebook that contained the print out of FLYlady's 31 beginner baby steps. The thing I'd always looked at and scoffed. For some reason last night I looked at it and it all seemed so easy. Sure, at first it may take a while. When you haven't cleaned your bedroom in a year it's going to take a while to clean it! But when you take baby steps and clean a little at a time, by the time it's clean all you have to do is maintain. You're already used to the little at a time approach at that point and if you just stick to it you never have to "clean" your room again.
All of that to say - It begins TODAY! No looking back! I may not be perfect. I may miss a day here and there, but I'm going to do this. Starting with a shiny sink.
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