Fighting the monotony
One of the most difficult things for me being a stay at home mom and having to be in the house all day is the monotony of it. I feel like all day long I'm taking them upstairs and downstairs cleaning up toys and changing diapers and stopping fights, they are at the age where they are playing together more and its the cutest thing but consequently they fight all time, its so hard for Isabella to learn to share and Cami is a real tease she will get the toy Isabella is playing with a run as fast as she can laughing. One of the toys that always causes problems and because of that was hidden till they found it yesterday, are these magnet alphabet letters that I got them a few months ago, I thought it was a great toy they could put them on the fridge and they could learn the abc's- big mistake. Isabella is obsessed with them and wants to put them just so on the fridge, she organizes by colors and letters and loves them but she gets HYSTERICAL when Cami touches one, and of course Cami sees all these colorful letters and wants to grab them. Forget asking Isabella to allow Cami to have one or two, she freaks out if Cami even comes near them. Today she asked me if she could play with them and I told her she could play with them when Cami was either upstairs with me or sleeping, her answer was "don't worry mommy I will just give her the little piggy house to play with, and books Cami loves books" yeah right, it didn't work there seems to be no match for the alphabet magnets. The solution was for me to do laundry with Cami upstairs while Isabella played with magnets downstairs.
Anyway, I woke up this morning and I thought that I have to find a way to fight the monotony. Being very organized does help, I usually am I don't like the days to just pass but lately I have not been myself I am absolutely exhausted and am not feeling well. Normally when I feel tired and drowsy I am able to rally and energize myself but not now I feel I have very little get-up and go. So I thought I need a schedule and I need to find something every day just one little thing that I can do that is different or that I can look forward to. I have a mental schedule but nothing written down, more than that though I think I need to find an activity every day. So I will be working on that this week, finding something for every day. Today thankfully I had lots of laundry to do, I so enjoy doing laundry its like therapy for me, now with kids I always have laundry to do something that does not bother me in the least. Isabella helps me put the matching socks together and brings me things from the basket and I found out she knows where most of the laundry goes, at least the stuff she can reach, so its an activity of sorts.
Here is my tentative activity schedule, lets see what happens:
Monday: Library story time. Yes I think I will be able to drive to the library, its a tiny little library just a place I would want to sit and read by myself, its in the woods up on a little hill hidden by trees I don't think many people go there but interestingly enough they have lots of kids toys there which works well for me. I wanted to find a place where they can socialize with other kids and I don't foresee many other people frequenting that particular library but at least for a few weeks it can be a welcome distraction.
Tuesday: Toy organizing day. I like to organize their toys and put the sets together since they end up getting mixed up, I can take advantage and clean them. I used to like to hide some of their toys that they aren't playing with and then take them out after a couple months and its like a new toy to them, I haven't done this for a while, maybe I can take the opportunity to do it again.
Wednesday: I need something for Wednesday, maybe I can try and go over to our neighbours house or invite them over. Last time we went over it was a fiasco the poor little girl wept the entire time because my kids were playing with her toys, I felt terrible, she wanted us to go over but then I guess it was too difficult to see her toys being played with, in any case we will try again maybe she can come over here.
Thursday: My very favorite day of the week. Anticipation is half the fun of everything and Friday is the day when Daddy is not going to work the next day and the weekend starts and Thursday is when I can anticipate that. I can take them to the library in the afternoon if not for story time then just to play.
Friday: Laundry Day! Did I already say how much I loved laundry? It will be the day when I wash my sheets, the kids love it because I make a big pile and they run and jump in the "muddy puddles" as they call them, thanks to Peppa Pig. I feel so good when I wash everything of course I have to do laundry a few times a week but mostly the girls things, but this will be my official laundry day, what a wonderful way to start the weekend.
My next project will be to think of different little things I can do with them on a daily basis, so hard for me to do right now since all I want to do is curl up and drink ice cold water or hot tea. Maybe I can get something to do in the basement, its a different space. I'm trying very desperately to be positive and make the most of this time at home but I won't lie its very hard right now. It won't last forever-it won't last forever.
Anyway, I woke up this morning and I thought that I have to find a way to fight the monotony. Being very organized does help, I usually am I don't like the days to just pass but lately I have not been myself I am absolutely exhausted and am not feeling well. Normally when I feel tired and drowsy I am able to rally and energize myself but not now I feel I have very little get-up and go. So I thought I need a schedule and I need to find something every day just one little thing that I can do that is different or that I can look forward to. I have a mental schedule but nothing written down, more than that though I think I need to find an activity every day. So I will be working on that this week, finding something for every day. Today thankfully I had lots of laundry to do, I so enjoy doing laundry its like therapy for me, now with kids I always have laundry to do something that does not bother me in the least. Isabella helps me put the matching socks together and brings me things from the basket and I found out she knows where most of the laundry goes, at least the stuff she can reach, so its an activity of sorts.
Here is my tentative activity schedule, lets see what happens:
Monday: Library story time. Yes I think I will be able to drive to the library, its a tiny little library just a place I would want to sit and read by myself, its in the woods up on a little hill hidden by trees I don't think many people go there but interestingly enough they have lots of kids toys there which works well for me. I wanted to find a place where they can socialize with other kids and I don't foresee many other people frequenting that particular library but at least for a few weeks it can be a welcome distraction.
Tuesday: Toy organizing day. I like to organize their toys and put the sets together since they end up getting mixed up, I can take advantage and clean them. I used to like to hide some of their toys that they aren't playing with and then take them out after a couple months and its like a new toy to them, I haven't done this for a while, maybe I can take the opportunity to do it again.
Wednesday: I need something for Wednesday, maybe I can try and go over to our neighbours house or invite them over. Last time we went over it was a fiasco the poor little girl wept the entire time because my kids were playing with her toys, I felt terrible, she wanted us to go over but then I guess it was too difficult to see her toys being played with, in any case we will try again maybe she can come over here.
Thursday: My very favorite day of the week. Anticipation is half the fun of everything and Friday is the day when Daddy is not going to work the next day and the weekend starts and Thursday is when I can anticipate that. I can take them to the library in the afternoon if not for story time then just to play.
Friday: Laundry Day! Did I already say how much I loved laundry? It will be the day when I wash my sheets, the kids love it because I make a big pile and they run and jump in the "muddy puddles" as they call them, thanks to Peppa Pig. I feel so good when I wash everything of course I have to do laundry a few times a week but mostly the girls things, but this will be my official laundry day, what a wonderful way to start the weekend.
My next project will be to think of different little things I can do with them on a daily basis, so hard for me to do right now since all I want to do is curl up and drink ice cold water or hot tea. Maybe I can get something to do in the basement, its a different space. I'm trying very desperately to be positive and make the most of this time at home but I won't lie its very hard right now. It won't last forever-it won't last forever.
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