High Maintenance Mom

It amazes me how many misconceptions I had about being a working mother. I always knew it was hard, required time balancing, and who knows what to do about cooking, but geez. Now everyday I can hardly wake up. I was never organized before, how can I do it now? I am going to have to put my life (did i ever have one? oh right I was a graduate student...) on hold or embrace this new need to start sleeping at eight pm requirement. WHO does that? It is absurd.

I am being forced to be organized. I'll let you know when I have it all figured out. My new plan is that every friday at 3 pm, I clean off my desk (wipiedown with cleaning product) and schedule my next week with to do items, maybe assigning high priority/low priority just so I have a list of things to jump into on Monday when I'm coming back around from the weekend. If I don't get it done I'm not kicking myself, but its a great way to feel like I've closed Friday on a good note and am starting strong on Monday.