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Seriously … Do you ever feel like this?

Seriously

 I do!!! EVERY.SINGLE.DAY!

This morning I sat down at my desk, like I do every morning, and my adorable little ‘inspirational’ notepad was staring me in the face! (I think some of the other messages are “HAPPY” or “LOVE’ or “Today is Awesome!” Well for some reason, probably b/c I hadn’t had enough coffee yet, I sat and looked at my little notepad, right next to my keyboard, and all that jumped out to me was  “SERIOUSLY!” Not in a ‘YES! You’ve Got This!‘ tone! No, no, it was more of  a “Hahahahaha, you’ve got to stop and take a minute to laugh because your life is pretty awesome, but pretty darn crazy, and YOU NEED TO GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!’ tone. Yes. Today, that one little word sums up my entire morning. (Well, today and everyday!) No nothing is wrong. Nothing is bad… it’s just… SERISOULY!?!? Here’s just a snippet of FIVE minutes of my morning that I just posted about on Facebook!

“I was thirsty, so I went to get water. Decided the dogs need to go out, so I let them out. Then thought to myself, ‘it’s raining, need to go get towels from the basement to dry them off when they come in.” Go to the basement and realize I forgot to put laundry in the dryer from the washer, so I go to restart that b/c it’s smelly now. Then start picking up all the crap on the floor that’s getting wetting bc our basement sucks and leaks every time it rains. UGH. Go back upstairs, go to let dogs in, realize I forgot the towels I went downstairs to get in the first place. Go back get towels. Come back up, get dogs in, and finally remember i was thirsty for water. I’m either going senile, I’m a rodent or a mother. It’s a coin-toss at this point.”

(BTW, I love Facebook!  I use it as a diary for myself since I print out those MY SOCIAL BOOKS,  at the end of each year!! You should totally look into that if you don’t already do it! They are pretty awesome!)

Anyways, I regress!

My whole point is… I need to get something going on ’round here! Organization. Systems. Schedules. Something. I’m looking at my lists, and I have lists of my lists, and so many lists that I can’t even keep those lists straight! Right now on my “Need to Buy Gifts For’ list, there are NINE people, and none are even for birthday parties! My house was rather calm this morning. For the most part, everyone got up easily, got dressed, and was ready to go. But by the time I got all four kids off to school, trying to remember all the ‘reminders’ I needed to remind them of, I was exhausted, and it was only 7:30 am. Then I sat down to work, and I couldn’t even finish a task because I was busy remembering what I forgot, and writing reminders on my lists! AHHHHH!!!!!

So….I wish I had great wisdom, or ideas, or a check list for how to get your life organized, but I totally do not!!! I’m just here to tell you, if you feel the same, we can totally be friends! And if you have any ideas or suggestions on how to keep your life somewhat organized, I’d love to hear them! LOL I’m not even searching for perfection… I actually despise perfection (seems very boring). I like messy. I like chaos. I like busy. I just need a way to make my brain work more efficiently for me!! 😉

So what do you have? Seriously! What are your tricks for keeping track and raising a house-full of little humans who need to become kind, productive adults? Working? Keeping a family functional? All while NOT LOSING YOUR MIND! 🙂 Happy Thursday, Friends!!! It’s almosssst Friday!!!

xoxo – RO

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