I have had a list as long as my arm, of things I wanted to get stuck into this week. I have so many things that need cleaning out, rearranging, organising and planning and there is no better time to get a move on, than now. Except tonsilitis has struck again,( i seem to be coming down with it about once a month)and it really knocks me about. So Monday and Tuesday, I felt awful and really could not find my mojo at all.

Today, once the kids were at school, despite feeling bleh, I really couldn't ignore the washing piling up so in the very least, that had to be done. 

Once I get going, it's all good. it's just getting started that is the problem. Coffee doesn't even seem to work these days.

So anyway, I paid a visit to my mentor and favourite Super Woman, (despite her claims to not be one) believe me when I say, she is no less than super.

I am of course referring to The Modern Day Drover's Wife and her blog http://noexcuses-easyorganising.blogspot.com.au/.

Her blog and the way she runs her household/family and days, are nothing short of amazing. 

So this is where I go when I need inspiration. And I am always sure to find it. Seeing another large family so organised, neat and tidy, schedules and routines gives me the push I need because it clearly works.

So today I have been nitty gritty cleaning my kitchen, rearranging cupboard space and  setting it up for ease of use and function as opposed to rumble, tumble of things thrown wherever they fit at the time.

I have 40 minutes until I need to pick up the boys from school so i am about to go and clean the downstairs bathroom as it seems to have slipped away from me in the last few days. 

This of course, has less to do with my laziness and more to do with me not coming down harder on the boys to help out. I leave everything to me which of course means that nowhere near as much gets done, as it should. I lose focus and momentum and become easily discouraged with 7 children in a 6 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 2 living areas house. It is very much, more than I can do on my own.

Tonight I will be printing up the routine and chore charts I made up with help from these great examples and I will continue this week with the aim of finishing up my list over the weekend for easier days ahead.

It's far too easy to become snowed under and to feel like you'll never get on top of it. I feel this way regularly and something my favourite Drover's wife said to me, resonated and stuck. She said that you can either become overwhelmed and stay that way, forever complaining about it or you can pull your head in and get on with it and do what needs to be done to sort yourself out. That piece of advice has stuck with me and is so very true. I have decided that I really don't want to be the former. I guess the hardest part is accepting how much hard work it is. 

I never envisaged that I would have 7 children and be a sole parent. I have seen now, that others can and do, do it and do it well. That there is a way to make it easier on myself and this is what I aspire to this year. 

I know it wont happen overnight but if I don't start now, my life is not going to get any easier any time soon.

Do take a look at The Modern Day Drover's Wife's blog. It really is saving my sanity, one lesson at a time. 

And yes, you ARE indeed a Super Woman. :)

Crissy