I have a hard time saying NO. I think I have the YESitis disease. :-) Last week was one of my most stressful yet. I don't think I have felt that stressed since my college days. I think for sanity sake I need to learn to say NO. After all, sleep is a necessity and not a novelty.
This was my last week summarized:
1. Today: Lunches packed, kids to school, 2 stories filmed for KVOA that will air on October 1st and 29th. Visit taught a dear friend (Best Part of my day). Finished editing 101 Things to Do With Eggs. Typed up the Rough draft of Minutes and agenda for the police commission (I serve as secretary). Kid's homework done. Papa Murphy's took care of dinner tonight. Then, Family Home Evening once Ivan got home.
2. Yesterday: At church at 8:40 a.m. to set up my classroom, taught my Sunday School lesson. I LOVE the people in my class! Got really sick (allergies exploded), slept for 5 hours, straightened the downstairs in preparation for cameraman coming on Monday, read my next lesson.
3. Saturday: Ivan had to work overtime, so the kids and I tackled cleaning the house and doing the chores by ourselves. I worked on editing 101 Things To Do With Eggs. Cleaned out my inbox. I've gone from 1423 unread messages to 84 unread messages. Played catch up. Attended the dinner and Women's Broadcast at the stake center. Then, ran my coupon errands.
4. Friday: Started day at 5:45 with a 6 a.m. walk. Lunches packed, kids taken to school. Posted deals on mysavvysavings.com, book inventory attempted, and shipped 2 book orders received. Kids picked up from school. Friends of kids come over to play. Put a years worth of girl scout patches on Liz's sash. Took Liz to her Girl Scout Sleep over activity. Went to dinner with Ivan and to buy a new door knob to replace the one that broke earlier this week. Watched Ivan replace door knob before heading over after 10 p.m. to pick up Liz from party.
5. Thursday: Started day at 5:45 a.m. with walk. Lunches packed, kids taken to school. Ordered Elizabeth 60 fabric covered headbands for her side headband business that she's starting. Spent 4 hours working on a project for Groupon. Got the editing done for the first 1/2 of 101 Things To Do With Eggs. Posted deals on mysavvysavings.com. Homework, homework, homework.
6. Wednesday: Went to bed at 2 a.m. after cutting up all the veggies to freeze that I bought last week and making Strawberry Raspberry Jam. Still got up at 5:45 a.m. to walk, then swept, vacuumed the carpets and steamed the downstairs tile, before taking the kids to school. Watched a good friend's baby, so she could go to the temple. Took Liz to Activity Days. Piano Lesson for Liz. Attended Boy Scout Court of Honor where Devan received his 2nd and 1st class and 11 merit badges.
7. Tuesday: Got up at 5:45 a.m. to walk. Took kids to school and Emma to Margie's. Got my hair cut and eyebrows waxed. Ran all my coupon errand today. Bought Lizzie the material she needed to make a large variety of headbands. Picked up kids from school. Homework. The list goes on.
To tell you the truth, I don't know if I could have done one more thing last week. I think I wore myself out. So, where do I start cutting? Any suggestions?
3 comments:
Wow Stephanie! You amaze me with all you can do with four kids. I've definitely learned from you that I can do more!!
In college one of my favorite quotes was from one of my teachers that would say, "Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than learning Latin!" I always thought it was kind of a weird saying--until I started saying "yes" to everything and learned first hand the stress and exhaustion that comes from doing that! Saying no is not always a bad or uncharitable thing to do :).
Maybe cut-out cutting the veggies till 2 am?? LOL! I'm the last one to tell anyone how to manage their time, but I do know that saying "no" is very liberating and the world does not fall apart, like we sometimes think it will. You're doing great things, but yes, you might have to try to cut a couple of things so that you can at least get good sleep!
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