This is a marathon. This is not a sprint.
Some days this is my constant mantra. A reminder to have patience and not get frustrated.
Like right now, I am 100% ready to go home from work and organize my basement. I want to go start seeds. I have so many projects at home calling my name.
Sure, I work at things a little at a time when I can in the evenings. But the few precious hours after work go by so fast. Make dinner, do dishes, help Sophie with homework and then, all of a sudden, it’s bedtime already!
I want the instant gratification. I want the boxes in my basement to unpack themselves. My kitchen needs reorganizing and I have not found the time to make it happen.
Here’s my list of stuff I need to get done.
To Do:
- Finish cleaning the pots and pans in the kitchen
- Fix front storm door
- Laundry, laundry, laundry….
- Take inventory of the fridge/freezer
- Meal plan
- Re-organize storage room to make space for seed shelves
- Wash seed starting containers
- Mix seed starting medium
- Start seeds
- Vacuum basement
- Fix bi-fold door to the storage room
- Put away all craft stuff still in boxes
- Can apple jelly
- Can elderberry syrup
- Start a new fire cider
- Start a SCOBY for kombucha
- Swap the basement couch out
- Make “un-paper towels”
- Sort the kids clothes
- Sleep at some point?
It’s hard to resist taking a day off work to try and accomplish what’s on the list. But right now I am training for my promotion and I am saving my time off for a weekend trip in April.
And that’s the “short list” that doesn’t include the other things I want to do like planting fruit trees in the front yard, building a chicken coop, plotting out my herb and tea garden, starting my YouTube channel and picking up the cinder blocks for my raised beds.
Wish me luck and patience. I am in need of both. Slow and steady, one bit at a time I will get there.