Frustrated

When your to do list is longer than it was at the beginning of the year, it is hard to get on board with the reading challenge. There aren't enough hours in the day but I keep trying to stretch the ones that are there.  I need to read to keep sane so hope you finish your chapter. My husband can't understand why I weed one plot of my garden all the time and I tell him it's so I think I have accomplished something.  The rest needs to be redug to weed so it's a much bigger job that keeps getting put off. That said the part that gets weeded all the time is growing and the part that needs redigging is shrinking so progress is being made.  Now if I could only say the same thing about my housework and paperwork. At least gardening gets me outside.

What a great idea!!

both of you working from home?  .... is this going to be a permanent thing?

even so, if he's going to work from home and you're trying to work from home ... I'd say you need to split kid duty! ... and yard duty! ... and unpacking duty! 

seeing as he's home anyway ... next time one of the kids gets Mommy, Mommy, Mommy for attention send to Daddy, Daddy, Daddy 

and if that fails .. you need to soundproof your office and put a steel door on it with a great big lock and a do not disturb sign!  LOL

.... ah, all in it's own time ..... just what ever you do, don't stop writing!

Donna, thanks for a great blog. It was good to hear someone else. Life has been crazy for us lately. I have so many books that I want to read and books I have to review that I am overwhelmed and frustrated myself from other things. Then almost at the same time, 2 different places where I review decide to change the way they want reviews done. Enough is enough! I don't have all the answers but one thing I have decided to do is to take assessment of things. What things, places, groups fill me with joy and productivity and which don't? Which fulfill me, providing me with more energy, and which fritter my energy or just leave me angry, down or empty. And then, I plan to prune my life, recenter, and tune out and ignore all those things that seem to destroy that focus (includes family time). Sometimes these reassessment times are very good at opening doors and finding the joy within to lead me where I need to be. It's a good way for me to tune out all the voices of family and friends telling me what I should be doing and moving forward more creatively. It is even a basic for spiritual direction called discernment of the spirits St. Ignacius talked about ---- even in ways that have nothing to do with religion, I find it a good way to discern direction ---what makes your heart sing and what fills you with dread/frustration. Anyhow, mostly wanted to say that sometimes I find my moments of supreme frustration to be a precursor to changing direction a bit and discovering or affirming a new direction that is ultimately more fulfilling than the one where I was before I felt frustrated. Doesn't lessen the frustration but it is a pattern I have noticed in my own life. Thanks so much for this great blog.

I'm undecided what to pick up next ... I'm overwhelmed at work right now and really should be doing work, but I'm playing here on eHarl instead ... LOL 

we're Ontario vegetable growers ... dh is the hands on operation guy .. and I'm the office and errand girl, also the one who looks after everything worker wise (we are mixed Canadian labour and 15 migrant Mexican labour) ... I know out West 150 acres is peanuts for a farm, but for vegetables we're about mid-size .... in our peak we're sending 7 or 8  53' trailer loads of celery in to the chains on top of our other crops  ... so I can't avoid dh not matter where I turn ...... he's at work, he's at home, he's on my friggin' cell phone LOL  ..... every year I look forward to my one week of peace, in December he heads way way up north to go moose hunting .... ah bliss!  .... that's usually when I paint the house ;)    .... and really, all that isn't a vent ... it's a life and usually it's pretty good :)

I'm glad your new place gives you some peaceful scenery and I do hope eventually you'll have time to enjoy your garden .... I love gardnening .... and I've recently discovered that gardening and audio books work very well together!