I’m interrupting my Organizing Wednesday since, frankly, this was not a week of progress.
I was thinking recently about how we all seem to gravitate towards schedules. Especially Stay At Home Moms (or Homemakers, or Domestic Goddesses, or whatever term you wish to use).
Back in the day we had Wash on Mondays, Iron on Tuesdays, etc. etc.
Now we have Menu Plan Mondays or Mommy Mondays, Tackle It Tuesdays, Wordless Wednesdays or Vegetarian Wednesdays, Inspire Me Thursdays, and Frugal Fridays or Friday Funnies.
(I almost chucked the whole idea of Organizing Wednesday, but since I am not going to be wordless and I am vegetarian every day I think I will keep it for a while.)
I read a whole organizing book once that even focused on the concept of schedules via a card file. There was supposed to be a card for every day of the week and cards for all the chores that needed to accomplished that day. Just follow the cards and you will be organized.
While I am not psychologically prepared to follow a card file every day, I think I appreciate schedules. It is way too easy to get up and check email, and blog, and putz with a little of this and that, and clean up after cats,and run some laundry, and cook dinner, and then – oh my! where did the day go!?!
So I have my own little self imposed schedule so that at the end of the day I can look back and say – well, I got that done.
Of course, the best thing about having a self imposed schedule is that you can chuck it all at any time and just enjoy your life. And that is what I plan to do today.
Sandra