Clarification

So my last post was supposed to be saved as a draft. It wasn't finished when it was posted. I had several comments and a very sweet one from someone I don't know and some sweet ones from friends.

Somedays are just overwhelming. I have an EXTREMELY busy life. It's my fault! I admit that but I have hobbies that I won't give up, friendships that I cherish and an amazing husband and adorable 15 month old little boy.

I work full-time. I hate it but it has to happen. January means tax season beginning and what people refer to in the accounting world as the beginning of 4 months of hell. It's so busy! Luckily for me I'm not an accountant, I'm just a bookkeeper but that just means January is my busiest month! Everyone wants their W-2's. Well this has worked fine until this year.

Bryce is working 55+ hours a week. He leaves the house at 5am. He USED to do daycare duty. His sister watches our son and she lives in Pleasant Grove (45 min from our house) so she meets us on the south end of the valley in Draper and takes him to her house (she's amazing). Well, She's not going to meet Bryce at 5:30 am. It's not fair to her or Robert so now I have to do it. Which is fine but I work downtown. So it adds 45 min each way to my day in the car. It also makes it really difficult to do ANYTHING after work.

Robert sleeps like clockwork. He sleeps from 7pm-7am every single night. It's amazing. But when I get home between 6 and 630 with him that doesn't give me very much time to spend time with him. We try and make the most of that time, but sometimes that's when I have to run errands because I never know when Bryce is going to get off. So that means that I want my weekends to be all about the little man.

This is house my house has gotten the way it has gotten. I'm a messy person. I always have been. I have a lot of stuff. I've been downsizing but I haven't done it enough. Bryce is equally as messy and two extremely busy and messy people is not mixing very well. So we were home all weekend and played with Robert, caught up on sleep and watched our favorite shows (that we watch on hulu because we're too cheap for cable :)). We should have been cleaning but we miss our time with each other.

So yes, I've set some pretty outrageous goals. But I need to schedule my life. I need to have expectations for myself. Maybe they're too high right now, BUT I feel like they're really long term goals. If I make 1/2 of them this month I will be thrilled. That's why I reset my goals, in hope to make them more achievable. At this point, my goals for the month are to get my house clean enough for Stamp club. Keep it clean. Take down Christmas. And start working out. My body is doing some pretty funky stuff. Pregnancy didn't really agree with my body and has thrown some things really out of wack. They're dealable, not life threatening but annoying. I have to do some extreme exercise if I want to lose the weight. I want to do a triathlon with Dougie this summer. I'd actually like to do 5 but I'm shooting for at least 1. I did the swimming part of an olympic tri last summer (it's twice as long) so I think I could do the whole thing but I need to train, so that's how I'm going to lose my weight. Extreme Tri training. WHEN DO I HAVE TIME. At 8:30 after Bryce and Robert have gone to bed! Then I can come home and clean. :)

Life is busy. But if I can get my house clean, then my goal is to do a quick pick up each night and little more indepth clean up on the weekends.

So I'm trying, I'm succeeding in some things and not in others, but I'm trying and right now, that's the best I can do!