School starts tomorrow morning. I’m doing my best to adjust my mindset.
I’m sure I’ll blather on and on about it for several days, but for today, in the spirit of what all mothers know is the true time for resolutions, I thought I’d share a few that I’ve been thinking about.
- Look cuter. While I just can’t embrace the Flylady thing of being dressed to my shoes every morning, because it doesn’t jive with the fact that if I’m going to exercise it will be after I’ve taken the kiddos to school, I do need to put a little more into my appearance. Not sure how I’m going to work on this one, but I know I need to.
- Develop/commit to a realistic evening checklist. While last school year, my daily checklist helped me make huge strides in my quest for order, anything that needed to be done in the evening was pretty hit or miss.
Well, that’s two things. As I’ve learned over the past year (FULL year as of Tuesday), this thing is a process. Not much is gained by stating a bunch of “Imgonnas” and then forgetting what they are.
Day in and day out, I’m working toward changing my ways. While the summer’s lack of routine was joyous and I embraced every moment of it, I now need to embrace the current season and start to make some more real progress.
Off to go lay out tomorrow’s clothes for the kids (and me), make lunches, cook up a feast to enjoy together on our last night of summer, load and run the dishwasher, and . . . . set the alarm clock.
Ugh.
I love when the school year gets started and you can get back into a good routine. Enjoy the first day! (I have to wait til Sept 1st)
Good Luck. We don't start school intil after memorial weekend. But we go until beginning of June. Trying to get lots of things done this week and next. I start school next week so Iwill need someone to watch my girls for few hours for a couple of days.
I really love that one of your goals is to look cuter. I really do.
I hope your first week goes well! 🙂
I can't wait to hear all about their first day. We started our school (homeschool) year last Monday. It will take a few weeks to get the kiddos into a routine. Our oldest starts driver's ed tomorrow afternoon. He is excited, and I'm cringing at the thoughts of daily trips for two weeks to a college town 25 miles away. Oh well, at least it will be over and he will have his license in less than two months. wooohooo! Then I can send him to the grocery store for that loaf of bread and gallon of milk. :o)
I, like you, have resolved to try to look presentable pretty much all the time. One small step for me was to decide to wear jewelry pretty much every day. Since my ears are pierced, I figured I should take advantage of that and actually wear earrings. After about 2 weeks, my oldest daughter started asking about getting her ears pierced. I don't know if she really noticed my earrings or not, but it sure seems coincidental.