Ok, we can make this work. I just a need a schedule and a list.
Laundry Day
Baking Day
Garden Day
Nothing like starting the week by getting the laundry done but gosh it’s depressing to see nothing but sweatpants and hoodies. What if I don’t want to bake, or when I do I eat everything in a day and then I have to start again? It’s raining and cold and I’ve done all the fun planting and sometimes I don’t even have the energy to fill the bird feeder.
Pizza Night
Lowfodmap/gf crust attempt 1 – fail
Lowfodmap/gf crust attempt 2- less failed but still refused by the Celiac kid.
Now we’re out of sauce. At least the sourdough crust is nice.
Taco Night
Shoot the lettuce has gone bad. There wasn’t any meat at the store. We’ve run out of gf tortillas.
Pasta Night
I had to buy the “wrong” brand of gf pasta, one child goes hungry. We’re running out of homemade sauce but the store will only let me buy one can on tomatoes. Hubby can’t eat the jarred sauce.
Living Room Cleaning Day
Didn’t we just clean this room yesterday? This morning, in fact? So basically it will always look like a bomb went off?
Bedroom Cleaning Day
How can you even live in here?
Kitchen Cleaning Day
Dishwasher broke. Doing dishes three times a day. Why am I the only one doing dishes? The problem with cooking is that it makes dishes. Should I even bother cleaning up the kitchen?
Why is it noon and I haven’t eaten breakfast or finished my coffee? Wait, what day is it?
Noise, noise, so much noise
Are there any British Crime dramas I haven’t watched yet? Which streaming service has them? Can I binge watch before the free trial is over?
I feel like the last two months have been an exercise in distraction. Constant unending distraction. I started with a plan, even some fun goals. Now I’m just trying to accomplish something. Anything.
But the problem with survivalism is that you can only do it for so long. I feel like we’ve reached critical mass as a family. We need to have things to look forward to. We need to have things we can count on. I don’t know what that looks like, but I do know we have to find a way to do just one thing at a time, and actually do it.
We want to keep it nice and pretty,
to show restriction can be fun,
but down there at the nitty-gritty,
get done ugly still gets done.
We see the smiling online faces
playing games and baking bread,
while we have all attractive graces
to be found on ‘Walking Dead’.
But I bet that they don’t tell ya,
even perfect faces slip,
and behind the steady camera
there’s somebody with a whip.
“Now don’t you whine or weep or pout,
or you’ll have something to cry about!”
Yes! I so hear you!
This is so true and clever. Today we all decided to go Keto because we’re going back to work (hopefully) in two weeks and sure to be strangled by our pants. BTW I missed the Brit Box free trial!