I got an email yesterday. It said something along the lines of “How do you do it all?”
O no.
That means I have failed.
Because in a close second behind showing off my adorable baby, my biggest desire on this blog is this: to never, ever, ever give the impression that I have my crap together. Because I don’t.
I don’t have it together to the extent that OBaby was squeezed into pajamas last night that are a size too small for him because I forgot to cycle the laundry again yesterday.
I don’t have it together to the extent that at 10:00pm two nights ago I sent DanO to the 24 hour pharmacy to pick-up my perscription refill that I needed to take that night.
I don’t have it together to the extent that DanO asked for me to clean our bedroom as my gift to him for Father’s Day. O yes, friends, it was that. bad.
I don’t have it together to the extent that I arrived 5 minutes late (and after several of the guests) to my own son’s birthday party.
I don’t have it together to the extent that this is my kitchen counter right now:
I don’t have it together to the extent that I own 8 reusable grocery bags because I keep forgetting to bring them with me to the store so I just buy a new one each time.
I don’t have it together to the extent that I had every intention of having a garage sale this summer, but the weekends are slowly ticking away and I am no closer to ready.
I don’t have it together to the extent that I just threw away 3 rotten cucumbers that I had forgotten in the back of the produce drawer.
I don’t have it together to the extent that even after I finally cleaned our bedroom, it still pretty much looks like this every night (or worse):
I don’t have it together to the extent that last month I posted about our lettuce garden this summer and put “to be continued…” at the end, yet haven’t even touched the next post in the series.
I don’t have it together to the extent that right now there is a pile of not ready-to-go cloth diapers just strewn about on OBaby’s changing table.
I don’t have it together to the extent that my dog was out of water for probably an entire day, and I didn’t even notice. My parents did when they came to town and they refilled her bowl.
I don’t have it together to the extent that a few weeks ago when our dog Pearl was with our in-laws, this was the standard state of my dining room floors:
I so badly wish you could just come ring my door bell and walk right in my house unexpected so that your perspective of our life would be realistic. It’s hard to keep it balanced on here because of course I want to post the pretty pictures of my family wading in a stream and not post the ones of the cheerios in every nook and cranny of my house… I mean, don’t we all? But the moment this blog shows only stream-wading pictures and no piles of unfolded laundry pictures, it becomes a lie, and I really don’t want that. I do not want to pretend to be the counter-top composting, organic bread from scratch making, pantry perfectly stocking, immaculate house keeping blogger lady who toots butterflies.
Because I don’t.
My toots can be rather stinky, in fact. As can my burps.
There. There is your dose of O My Reality for the week. You are so welcome.
(PS: I just washed the jeans I’m wearing and I totally have muffin top right now. Just keeping it real.)
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Now feels like a really funny time to tell you something:
O My Family is a finalist in the 2010 BlogLuxe Awards hosted by SocialLuxe!
The ironic part, though, is that we are in the “Organized Blog” category. I kid you not.
So maybe, despite the fact that I so do not have my crap together, maybe just maybe one or two of you have come away from this blog inspired to organize, which is awesome. I am honored and thrilled that friends and readers (who are friends I just haven’t met yet) took the time to vote for O My Family.
To thank you (and because apparently you think I’m organized? Your words, not mine…) I want to officially declare next week O My Organization week here on O My Family! I promise I will still post adorable pictures of my now-one-year-old OBaby, and I also promise to steer completely clear of butterfly tooting territory or pretending I have my crap together, but I thought it would be fun if we could do a little organization overhaul together! Heaven knows (and now you know, too) that I could use it.
Of course, if there’s an organization topic or project you feel inspired to tackle, O My Organization Week will include a link-up on Friday July 30th where we can share with each other. Maybe you can show me your kitchen counters and unfolded piles of laundry and then we can do something about it together! Sound like a plan?
(I know, I know. You’ve never been quite so excited to alphabetize that spice drawer, have you?)
love this! now we are all exhaling a big sigh of relief. ;)