I thought that maybe I was exaggerating at times. That all kids were like this. I would say that I can’t get anything done because I have to watch Jellybean constantly. By the time he was ready to go to sleep so was I. I would drop from sheer exhaustion.
Then a friend came over.
With her 11 month old girl.
Who sat there calmly playing with one toy most of the time.
While Jellybean tore around the room like a Tasmanian Devil. Running from this toy to that and knocking poor Lily over half the time.
“Is he always like this?”
“Pretty much!”
He got a play kitchen for his birthday. Two days later he figured out that he could use the oven door as a step and climb on top of the kitchen set.
I witnessed the whole thing swaying underneath him as I plucked him off and placed him on solid ground.
The crazy child just laughed.
(Did you see that grey hair just grow in on my head? At 29? All Jellybean!)
Then my husband would claim to do chores which came out to I washed dishes and swept and mopped. Despite being home ALL DAY for the past month and a half. (Thank you Jesus – he went back to work yesterday. I was ready to kill him!)
In my world getting chores done means you swept, mopped, vacuumed, dusted, scrubbed the bathrooms, made the beds, disinfected toys, put away laundry, etc, etc.
That’s hard to do when you can’t pull yourself away from the TV.
Its even harder to do when you are out of the house 10 hours a day and then have to cook dinner, play, give baths and convince a rambunctious toddler to sleep.
I’m determined to get on track though and get organized. That is my 2012 resolution. I stayed up WAY late last night but I put all the laundry away, washed dishes AND spit shined the bathroom. I am EXHAUSTED today but I’m going to keep going every night until I feel like the house is where it needs to be. Then we’re going to keep it that way. That means I WILL hold the hubby accountable for leaving his and Jellybean’s dirty clothes and diapers laying around. We WILL clean up after ourselves and dejunkify our home. I WILL get organized at home and that is going to carry over to the rest of my life – finances, career, parenting and hopefully marriage.
Because it can’t keep going the way it has been.
(Thank you Pinterest for providing me with endless inspirations on how to make that happen! 
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)This post is linked up with Shell as part of Pour Your Heart Out Wednesdays.
6 comments:
Husbands + Chores = chaos and disappointment. That's seriously the first thing all women should be taught about marriage lol.
I've heard people say that boys are hardest when they're little, girls are hardest when they're teens. Neither sounds like much fun when you're in the trenches of it, huh?
I feel for you. My boys are non-stop. They have no fear, so I know how you feel.
It's a boy thing, I'm convinced!
I'm still trying to get my act together.
I feel the same about boys! They are a crazy bunch!
Getting organized? I feel your pain there too!
When my husband was at home he asked me for a to do list. Something about the visual reminders and having something to mark off gave him a sense of accomplishment.
It is definitely a boy thing. My daughter was not that way and when I had my son...totally insane the difference in energy and sure roughness. I feel for you working all day and trying to manage a house the way mothers do... it is not easy but I wish you luck because there is nothing better than a clean and well run household but you need sleep too...such a constant battle.
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