Mom's Day Off
When I had my first baby everyone gave the same advice. Sleep when the baby sleeps. Of course I did not listen right away. She fell asleep, I tried to clean the bottles, empty the diaper genie and take a shower. It didn't take long before I realized that I had to get some rest. So the house got messier as I took naps or didn't wash clothes or dishes right away. Then on the weekends when my husband was home, I'd go on a cleaning marathon. To be honest I kept up that cycle after I returned to work. I tried to create systems and schedules that would make it all easier or manageable. And sometimes it worked for a while. But overtime I still became burned out and cranky! Last year when I decided to leave my job I thought for sure it would be so easy and I'd have lots of time to rest. Stop laughing. It didn't take long to find out the truth. I have plenty to do even without a job. Again, I made a system and a schedu...