As I’ve been trying to find my footing in the path to our “new normal” I have been thinking a lot about priorities. I think the idea was planted in my mind by Besty and her kind suggestion of putting only three items on the to-do list.

I have tried, really, to figure out how to get to the point where three is attainable. So far I have tried to focus on one non-kid related thing and I keep failing. I get distracted by all the other things that I need to do and I end up working on a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I have unfolded laundry in the living room, I have dirty dishes in the sink, paper clutter on the tables… and even though I tell myself “don’t mess with the paper today” I somehow get my hands on it. Interruptions from the kids derail me and when I can go back to non-kid things, I forget what I was doing.

I’m still thinking about what priorities are realistic and what goals I can accomplish each day. We are getting ready to do a drywall project which means Moving Big Things, so I have to buckle down and focus on prepping for all the fun this project will bring. And if that means letting the dishes sit another day, then I guess we will work on that when we run out of silverware. (It also means daily blogging is still on the back burner for a while.)