In search of simplicity

I am searching for simplicity.Turns out you can't keep juggling everything in the air without a few things crashing down on you.

So I have cut down on as much as I can- including blog time, leg-shaving time and folding laundry time. And it hasn't made much of a difference as far as I can tell. Well.. the mountain of laundry has gotten pretty big- that I noticed. It'd be hard to miss.

We did spend a few intense days of potty training to get requests for a diaper and only have to mop the bathroom floor. twice. In about 3 hours.

And moving 'out here' has had some other consequences. like traffic. Ugh how I hate traffic. And there is 1- yes- 1 road you can take to get here. it's 10-15 mph for 7 miles from 4:30-7pm everyweek day night and most weekends. it's awful. Friday and Sat it's east bound that's heavy and slow and then Sun it's west bound. I still haven't figured where all these people are going for the weekend. So it turns out if I mis-manage my time and have to go somewhere and are coming home after 4pm, it will take me about 45 minute to drive what would otherwise take me 10. Unfortunately it's the same road Larry has to take home from work.

But out here has a few advantages. I can walk to our post office, for example. Which is faster and safer than trying to drive it when the traffic is heavy and you can't pull out onto the road. The kids love our daily walks to the post office and the post office said they were in danger of being closed, but our shipping volume will help keep it open.  At least for now. I've been doing alot of soul-searching about finding simplicity in my life and how this business which has largely taken over my life fits into it. I'm finding it ironic that something we started so that I could stay home with the kids and not work full time has turned into a close to full time job which distracts me from the kids I wanted to stay home with.

And soul searching about school. I like the flexibility of homeschooling.  But I'd like the "normality" of sending our kids to school. Not to mention lifting the burden of schooling them and trying to keep one particular child on task or at least in the same room as the task at hand. But again.. not sure school would be a help or hindrance in that area. I foresee alot of notes about behavior being send home.

Well.. that's about all the time I have to mis-manage online this morning. We have a date with the library this afternoon and our walk to the post office. And I guess I'll have to feed them at least 2 more times and I guess today we'll tackle the laundry mountain, or at least the foot hills of said mountain.

What a life of adventure, I tell ya.