The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.
~ Ruth Hulbert Hamilton
But children grow up as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.
~ Ruth Hulbert Hamilton
It's been hard lately, keeping things mellow. I've always juggled lots of things - I worked two jobs through most of college, I had a baby in law school while being on law review and clerking. I had a job and two kids and was on the board of a nonprofit and volunteered at church. I just always functioned best with lots of things going on. But for some reason, that hasn't been the case this past month. My mind has suddenly reached its multitasking limit, and I feel very frazzled. I forgot about a work meeting today (for the first time ever), Thursday I couldn't figure out what day of the week it was, I'm forgetting birthdays, I walk around with a constant dread that I'm forgetting something. It's a little scary.
But mostly, it's sad, because it also means I'm not stopping to soak up Henry's fleeting newbornness. I'm letting cobwebs get in the way, when I'm sitting in my chair nursing Henry and I become so obsessed staring at the dust on the ceiling that I have to put him down to get a duster. And I'm letting life FLY by a million miles an hour while I try to keep everything straight.
My new plan (1) get more sleep. I don't know what's up with me going to bed at 1 a.m. every night, waking up at 3 a.m. to feed the baby, and then getting up at 6 a.m. That's not good. (2) devise some sort of crazy Alzheimers sticky note system. Or something. Maybe make better use of my Blackberry calendar again. I just need a foolproof method of keeping track of everything outside my brain to free up some space inside my brain.
We'll see. Just please don't make fun of me if you see me walking around with a note stapled to my forehead.
3 comments:
The picture in the post is so beautiful.
I can completely relate to having a bit of multi-tasking burn out. For me, it seems the older I get the less tolerant my brain becomes at doing a million things at once.
Hang in there - sleep will definitely help.
Could be Someone is telling you to slow down and smell the flowers. Don't your kids lives go by because you are busy. (I really think you do GREAT jobs with your kids, but maybe you'd rather be THERE than working)???
This is said with much admiration...you seem to pay alot of attention to your kids, I admire it! And YES! sleep will elp.
The picture IS so beautiful...one that could be put on a wall to cherish.
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