Time Warp

Well Pooh. I missed yesterday. So I'll try for two today to keep myself on track.

I am always amazed at how time works. Now that I have started working again, Friday has become my one and only day with no responsibilities. Claire goes to preschool from 9-12, giving me 3 hours to do...whatever. I try to reserve that block of time for sewing. Especially now that Christmas is looming near, I have a loooong list of sewing projects to complete. Some days I will get so much done during those three hours, and then some days go like yesterday.

I had a sewing project to complete for a friend of mine. I knew it would take me all of my 3 hours if I could get my "ducks in a row". But...the house was also a disaster. I tend to be a spot cleaner. I'll clean one bathroom one day, another bathroom the next, dust another day and swiffer all the floors the next. Logic says I should have a nice little spreadsheet detailing each task for it's respected day. Well that would be too easy. I tend to wait until a specific area gets on my nerves and then I'll clean it. (For the record, dust doesn't get on my nerves until it becomes visible. And then it's waaaay too late. I need a new system for that one) ANYway...the whole house was on my nerves. Everything needed cleaning at once. So I signed Claire up for Lunch Bunch which means that she gets to eat lunch and play an extended time at school. Now I had from 9-2. My plan was to attack the house like a mad woman from 9-11 and then spend my 3 hours sewing from 11-2. Hooray!

I knew I was in trouble when it was 10:00 and I had only completed one task. And then I made the mistake of entering Easton's room. He got some Halloweeny pencil sharpener and had obviously practiced by sharpening an entire pencil and left the shavings on his floor (shoved by the wall where he thought I wouldn't notice). But I noticed. Which caused me to look under his bed. Where I found his HUGE illegal stash of Halloween candy. 20 something empty wrappers and arm loads of candies waiting to be eaten at will. As you can imagine - that specific area got. on. my. nerves! Easton's room got a deep clean. Which led me to deep cleaning the girls' room (no illegal candy there - just found oodles of missing hair bows and barrettes). And then getting all the other things clean in the house.

I finished at 1:45.

And I have NO IDEA how it took my whole day! But it did. And maybe I can sew tonight in my squeaky clean house.