{Reading time: approximatley 1-2 minutes.} What can you do in one week? Sometimes I can clean the whole house in a week. Sometimes I can complete all my lesson planning for a year in a week. Some weeks are spent in brain-melt mode. You know, like the week between Christmas and New Year. It’s all games, cookies, candies, visiting, and nothingness. I love that week. But it’s still a lot, isn’t it? After all, it’s relationship building. That’s work.
How many people are in your immediate family? We have seven. In the course of a week, it is a serious accomplishment to remember everything on the calendar, provide meals each day along with snacks, keep enough laundry going through so no one says, “Mom, I don’t have socks or underwear or pants without holes,” and referee and diffuse whatever arguments may ensue.I haven’t mastered this “regular” week, but I’m not completely off base.
The week I haven’t mastered yet is the keep-it-all-together-while-still-packing-for-a-road-trip week. That takes a week and a half just to get done barely in time for departure. And there’s the challenge of keeping the house in decent enough repair to come home from said raod trip with the house decent and able to handle the other week I have yet to master: get-it-all-unpacked-and-back-in-order-while-doing-life-as-usual week.
I’m gettin gbetter. And my Large Family Logisticsbook is helping tremendously I am, however, choosing to remain perpetually a work in progress.
What kind of weeks are challenging to you and which have you mastered?
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