How Do You?

Tonight I vacuumed. My entire basement. Which is not finished. I vacuumed the concrete floor. It looks amazing. Ha!

Earlier this week I went through a couple dozen boxes in the basement and made a Goodwill run. Random crap that hadn't been used in forever. Bye bye!

Tomorrow I'll probably vacuum the rest of the house, wash down my bathroom cabinets, organize the pantry and fridge, go through each of the munchkins dressers, or re-organize the playroom for the 1,417th time.

What am I getting at, you ask?? These crazy activities, my friends, are my coping mechanisms...strange, but true.

When my house is overly organized and clean you can just about guarantee something's up. It's my way of feeling in control on out-of-control days. It's my way of clearing out junk that's clogging up my space and making unnecessary messes. And its my way of feeling productive when I feel like I can never get anything accomplished.

The last few weeks have been crazy. Work has been demanding. Tim is gone so much with football. Surrogacy stuff has been challenging. And I get lost in it all. Enough venting...this is life as a working mommy of three in my little section of the world. I wouldn't trade it, but it ain't easy either!

How do you cope?

Excuse me while I go clean the trashcans...