Day 7 - Get clothes ready

Getting your clothes sorted the night before... you'd think that this should be common sense...  but nope.  its often thought of, and then the following offending thought comes along of 'really? do I have do, I'll just pick something tomorrow morning, it wont take long....' 

So todays addition to everything, the shiny sink, reading and actually following through on my post it notes (ie change the toilet roll), and the hot spot thing......  IS getting clothes picked out and ready for the next day BEFORE i go to bed, and not just pick them out in my head.  I'm also going to do this for the boys too, since they have to go to daycare when I'm my way into work.

I can do this.....  I can and I will..  and to boot, I'm going to do it for more than 2 days in a row.....  I hope.  No, no I will and I can.  I am going to ignore that little voice that wants me to just forget about it and do it in the morning.

Surprisingly enough, that little voice is actually starting to change.  From 'do it in the morning' to 'its ok, take 5 minutes or less and do it now, your enjoying this tidy thing, don't ruin it! for gods sake don't ruin it now!!!'.  Who would have thought.  Certainly not me.

ok, so truth be told we all know that I'm going to fall apart again soon enough.  But like last week I'm going to just pick up where I left off, acknowledge that I failed miserably, supposedly learn from my mistakes (ok, who am I kidding there.  I wont learn!!!  I'll repeat it several times over because I've done so in the past no matter how vehemently I have sworn not to).

Now here's a small feat...  I've managed to convince my 6yr old son that he can now have an allowance...  or so there was no convincing with that part, he asked me first.  The conniving part came next, when I went 'yes! yes you can have an allowance BUT you will have to work for it just like mommy, daddy & john all work for their money.  You will have to make your bed every morning AND put away your toys every night before bed, and you will have to do this every night to get your $5'.  To which his reply was immediate & 'yes mommy.  I love it'.  Talk about floored.  I almost passed out where I was standing....  which just so happened to be in the checkout line at the local supermarket whilst holding a rather heavy basket of fruit.... and a severely ripe watermelon.  imagine the mess had I actually done that.

So now, each night I have to clean my sink till its shiny, wipe down the bathroom surfaces, do the dishes of course otherwise how am I going to get the shiny sink, do lunches, get daycare bags ready for the next day AND now, pick out tomorrows clothes for me & 2 little boys.  Oh, best ought not to forget about putting stickers onto the yet-to-be-made-sticker-chart for allowances.......

Oh and just so you all know, even if you don't really care, everything that was cleaned on the weekend is still CLEAN!!!!!!!!!  OMG, its happening.....  I could have people over and not be horribly embarrassed, until they walked into the kitchen and saw the pile of appliances on the floor that I haven't put away yet.  So maybe I was getting a little ahead of myself there.....  but I AM getting there!!!  :D