Letting Go

I get a lot of advice at work for all sorts of things. Sometimes, I pick up advice that's not even meant for me =).

There is not one single day that I am not out and about. Mondays through Wednesdays are crazy work days; I come home exhausted from being on my feet all day, and bending, squatting, putting my body in all sorts of positions to accommodate all the different types of heights and habitus. Then I cook, and do a load of laundry, give Diego his bath, and start him off to bed, and then get everything ready for the next day. On my days off, Thursdays and Fridays, I run errands outdoors with Diego (groceries, Target, etc), then come home to do the rest of my cleaning. Saturdays and Sundays are filled with the unknown. Some things are planned, most things are not. I hate the unplanned stuff. I'm a planner, I like to know what's going to happen between point A and point B. But Saturdays and Sundays belong to my husband, since he only has two days off a week. I plan my day arround him, and when I don't know what he's wants to do, I just go with the flow.

I'm making an extra effort to just let some of the cleaning go. To not be so anal retentive about certain things, that way I have more time with my son. This is what us women were all talking about at work today, during one of our down times. Terri and I go through a lot of the same things, as far as husbands and kids go. And we get a lot of advice, and stories, from our other female coworkers who have teenagers. So, in light of everything, I am just going to focus more on hanging out with Diego, even if it means letting some of the household duties sit there til a later time. One advice that Andrea gave me, was to get a closed hamper. She knows that it drives me crazy to see dirty clothes there, regardless of how small the pile is. I have to wash it. It kills me when I just finished doing laundry, and then there's a new pile of dirty clothes sitting there. So I think I will take her advice and buy a closed hamper...either that, or just get over it!!!

But I will say this, right now I just finished doing two loads of laundry. There is a small pile of dirty whites...and it's gonna sit there overnight, til it builds up a little more, enough to be worthy of getting washed! I'm so proud of myself for not getting all crazy about it =)