Stay or Go

So many times in my life I have not had any problem getting rid of material things in my life to give to others (aka City Mission, Good Will, etc). Today I had a huge realization. Even though I just took an entire van load of "things" to the City Mission, my life closet wasn't emptied at all. On January 11th, my life closet was given a great gift, Ike. My 3rd child. The transition has been good up until now. Last week was a hard week at work. I suddenly felt myself getting back into the "old" schedule and priorities - Work and then oh yeah I have a family to take care of. Did I like that feeling? NO! Has it bothered me a lot this week? Yep. So today I have stewed and stewed about how to clean out my life closet in order to make LOADS of room for my family and leave little room for work (of course enough to get a pay check). Let's take an inventory of my life closet. - Wife - Mother of 3 - Nursing little guy (btw didn't work with the others, so this is BRAND new) - Full time Therapy Manager/SLP at my current job - NEW SLP in the medical center, which involves learning, learning and more learning - Sister - Aunt (which I didn't even call my nephew on his bday last week! UGH!) - Friend - Pampered Chef consultant - Member of Zion Church - T-shirt Quilt maker - likes to sew - likes to scrapbook - blogger - Freezer Exchange coordinator - CEO of Laundry, housework, bills - Gardener - Couponer - Budgeter - Frugal person The list continues... As I thought and thought what can I purge from my closet, I began to write another version of the "if you give a mouse a cookie" book. If I stop couponing, I will freak out every time I go to the store and think I could be getting a better price. If I cont to coupon, I will have to go when the boys aren't with me, because I can't use my coupon book b/c Ike and the coupon book sit in the same place. This would require me to get off of work earlier...UGH the cycle continues. I am really not sure why I am writing this on my blog...but to just assist in my mental processing of seeing all the different things I do actually written down. For today, I have decided that couponing will be lessened, I will set a schedule at work and not work more than that, set a schedule up at home for housework, etc...so that I will be able to have time with my boys. I think I am begining to realize that I am not going to have my summer off, which makes me realize that I need to get my work under control so that I can still make the fun memories i have always made with the boys but with a work schedule too. It is possible...because everything is possible with God. So I better stop writing and start talking with Him...as he has the answers and not this silly blog!