Ok, I have a confession to make.  I secretly want a clean house.  It must be my neat freak mom’s clean genes rearing their ugly head, but I have found that I secretly desire a clean house.  And, I’m getting more and more frustrated these days because it seems that the harder I try, the less I succeed.  I have had a great time cleaning and organizing with my Spring Cleaning Projects, the only issue, I keep thinking of more things I need to do.

Organizing is my favorite part of all this and the cleaning part well, it apparently comes with the territory.  But, I walk into a not so clean kitchen today and I”m frustrated.  Didn’t I just clean it up yesterday.  I know, I know it’s an everyday occurrence.  I have to deal with it.  I also have to deal with the darn laundry that NEVER seems to go away.

I’m also wondering, how do you do all this AND run a ministry and writing business from home, and raise 2.5 kids (one is still in eutero), and be involved in your church, and let your kids play tee ball 4 nights a week (yes my son has four games next week). I’m worn out!  What about you?? What’s your secret?

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Well, yesterday was the first time I’d done a Wordless Wednesday in a while.  The picture was from my son’s first tee ball game ever.  He did so well and I was very proud of him.  He has 10 games total so we have 9 to go.  We have 4 of them next week. Yes, he plays Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

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Well, I normally have blogged here by this time of day, but I am JUST NOW taking a breather.  Today has been a busy day.  This morning I had to take my baby girl for shots, no fun and it killed an hour of my morning. The hour I normally spend on Breakfast, my quiet time and emails.  So, I was put off by an hour.  Then, I had some more time intense articles to write so the article writing today took longer than normal today too.  I am just now slowing down from working and I’m about 30 minutes away from my designated house cleaning and organizing time of day.

One thing I’ve been doing lately is keeping a daily time log.  I have also been trying to follow a schedule and routines a bit closer.  Though I do not like to be stuck to a strict schedule I have found that if I use one to at least route my path throughout my day it helps even if I become a bit flexible and take a detour at some point it helps me to get me back on track when I have gotten too far off.

The daily time log has enabled me to see what I have actually done throughout that day and many days this helps me to feel accomplished while other days I say, well I’m glad I work from home and have the flexibility to just deal with the kids if I need to, which some days is the case.

So, What about you?  What do you do to keep on track?

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Here is my menu plan for the week I think I even have it down to days this time. I am also VERY proud of myself because last night I prepped 3 meals while cooking dinner so I cooked part of 4 meals at one time. I was ecstatic.

Here is the meal list. We have 2 ball games this week so I tried to make a couple easy nights for myself.

Monday - Taco Pie

Tuesday - Crockpot Lasagna, Beans, Garlic bread

Wednesday - Eat @ Church

Thursday - Parmesan Meatballs, scalloped potatoes, beans

Friday - Chicken nuggets, pasta salad, corn

Saturday - We bought tickets for grilled chicken plates from the Boy Scouts.

I have already prepped the taco pie, its ready for the oven and I have browned the meat for the lasagna. I have also mixed up and frozen the meatballs. What a time saver! Whoo hoo!

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