Sara is going for a hike, and I’m home with the kids today. Mostly, they’ve been playing pretty quietly, with a few squabbles here and there. I feel as though I have a lot to do today, as I often do on a Sunday. I’ve been working on my Beeminder studying tasks, trying to get ahead on everything. Also, there’s a bit of laundry to wash, dry, and fold.
Last night I visited a friend’s house, and it was so nice and neat that it made me feel envious. Somehow we can’t manage to keep the house neat and clean for even one day, even though we have cleaners come once a week. I’m not sure how one does that, especially not with two kids (my friend only has one — maybe that’s the secret).
One rule my friends use is, “put all the other toys away before you get out a new toy,” so theoretically the kids would play with one toy at a time. But, though that rule sounds sensible, it’s actually rather hard to enforce. I feel as though I’m spending all my time enforcing the one toy rule. Isn’t the point of the rule to make my life easier?
Anyway, one of my Beeminders is to do more cooking, so I’m thinking of taking the kids to the store so I can get ingredients for home-made pasta sauce. I’ll start small.