On the FLY!

I am late! I am late! I am late!

Sometimes I feel just like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland...running all around and never getting much accomplished or just feeling overwhelmed. But several years ago after I had been diagnosed with cancer, I quit my job and actually stayed at home for the first time in my life since I was fifteen years old. I had no idea that just NOT working would be so hard for me to adjust to! After a while, I began to get teary eyed every day! But it was not the roller coaster ride my emotions were taking that caught me off guard, but it was the sense of just being overwhelmed by housework every day! I can't explain it...it was like I knew what I had to do but I didn't know where to start and so I just would not start!

Can you understand what I am talking about?

I had cancer; so why should I even care how my home looked? The days just flew by! It seemed as if every day was just waiting for me to get up and get started but I couldn't cope with every day things at that time. For the first time in a very long time I did not have a plan for my life. I did not know what the next week or the next day would bring and so I just existed for the moment. And things just backed up and did not get accomplished at all. It was as if I forgot how to function...I forgot how to clean my house...wash our clothes...work in my yards...etc. I just wanted to spend all my time with my husband, Kirby. Chad, my oldest son, was living in Indiana and I longed to see him every day. I realized that this was not healthy for me to feel so depressed and overwhelmed by even the small things in my life but I grew worse as the months went past.

Finally I broke down and went to a counselor. She told me that I could get myself back in full functioning order just as I was before I learned about the cancer. The counselor told me about a great website that would help me get myself back in order! So I want to pass this knowledge forward to you. The website is: www.flylady.net/

Let me encourage you to go to this website and take advantage of this awesome and fun site! (Yes! Housework can actually be sort of fun!) Download some of the forms that will help you get yourself organized in your house work, finances, personal life and so on! Since those terrible days of uncertainty, I have become quite the Fly Lady myself! I have finally gotten my "flight plan" all figured out. But there is always room for improvement!

Again that site is: www.flylady.net/

God Bless