Baby Steps

I recently have watched the status updates of one of my high school friends build a house in Boise, move in, and three days later post that everything is unpacked and all the frames are on the walls.

To which I say . . .  What the ?!!

I have to admit, the past three weeks it's felt like I've been running a race while trying to put my shoes on.  I'm managing, and I don't have a time deadline, but it has been a little frustrating.  And I know, I know, I know -- I was the one that wanted this, to be at home and take care of daughter, husband, home, and self.  But It feels like a start up business that takes a bunch of extra work at the start to get up and running how you want it to.  So I apologize if I've been MIA on the internets, scrabble games, or voice mails.  I've been catching up :-)

And it's not just unpacking, setting up new banking accounts, bill pays, insurances, and closing all the old ones.  I want to fundamentally change the routine, schedules, priorities, and etc.  I want to be more consistent using essential oils with Ellie and our home every day to help with her attention and focus issues and keep her out of a doctors office and medication.  I want to use EOs to make my own cleaning products, mouthwash, shampoo, deodorant, perfumes, etc.  I want to change what we eat and the way we eat.  I want to change how we do chores and our positive and negative consequences.  I want to know where things are in my home - to get rid of things we don't need and simplify.  I want to serve others with a weekly temple trip and volunteering at the school and online as a speaking partner for an international BYUI  student.  And I want to find time to start reading and reviewing and blogging and going back to publish blog books.  When I look at it all I'm overwhelmed.  But I have to remember -

Baby steps.