Vacation or Clean House?

[DVCLiz]

Because DDs spent spring break with their dad and took a trip out West, I took a solo trip down the East Coast, ending up at VWL and BCV for most of a week. Telling myself that I would have 3 weeks this summer when both DDs are away at camp, and I could clean out closets, wash windows, polish silver, etc - all the things I never have time to do but really need doing at my house! I had a great trip, but -

Now I'm thinking - boy, three weeks is a long time to clean out closets by myself! Wonder if I could just sneak away for a few days and use the last of this year's points at Hiton Head? Or, if no availability (I know I'd have to go on a waitlist and hope for the best) why not just head down to Florida again?

This is not really the mature decision I should be making, but, boy, do I want to go!!!! Someone talk me out of it, or help me justify!!!!

 

[lllovell]

When everyone IS home, split those chores up amoung you all and then you can take some time for yourself as well!

Everyone deserves down time! I think parents (flame me here - but especially moms) are the WORST at not taking time for ourselves! I am not sure how old your daughters are, but cleaning out closets is something they can certainly help with! Hubby too! Go - enjoy yourself. Come back refreshed and tackle those projects you enjoy doing and ask for assistance with the rest.

 

[spiceycat]

go have some fun - you deserve it!

 

[DVCLiz]

When everyone IS home, split those chores up amoung you all and then you can take some time for yourself as well!

Everyone deserves down time! I think parents (flame me here - but especially moms) are the WORST at not taking time for ourselves! I am not sure how old your daughters are, but cleaning out closets is something they can certainly help with! Hubby too! Go - enjoy yourself. Come back refreshed and tackle those projects you enjoy doing and ask for assistance with the rest.

lllovell - I love your post because it makes me sound like such a busy, stressed mom and it's therefore wonderfully easy for me to justify this all to myself!!!! The facts are, however:

No hubby (ex - sorry I wasn't clear about WHY DDs were on a trip without me over spring break!!!)

These cleaning jobs I've been putting off aren't exactly DD helpable, if you know what I mean. They mostly involve decisions about things I stored from my mother's house when she died several years ago, or old things in the attic. I know DDs would help if I asked, but then I would have to listen to, "You can't throw that away - it was Nana's!" and really, I have to make those decisions myself. I can't keep every single Tupperware container just because Nana used to store the macaroni and cheese in it!!

For now, I'm a stay at home mom with school-age children, so if I were better organized and didn't spend so much time on the computer, I'd have finished these chores long ago. I just keep putting them off, and I had told myself that if I traveled at spring break, I couldn't go again while the girls were away!!!!

But thank you for the support - and the girls ARE cleaning out their closets - I am cracking the whip upstairs and you should see the fur fly!! You wouldn't believe how many times this past weekend I heard, "Hey, Mom, guess what I found in my room?" !!!!!!!

 

[bobbiwoz]

Well, 3 weeks is a long time, and why don't you take a break for 1 of them and enjoy yourself. HH or WDW? Either sounds great to me, but I would pick HH! I would be aching for a walk on the beach after the work of going through dear mom's things. The ocean would be a balm for the pain I know I would be feeling.

Bobbi

 

[DVCLiz]

Now, Bobbi, that made me cry a little - what a very sweet thing to say!!! And I think I will do it, if the waitlist comes through - even for a night or two. And then I will make myself clean before I go....that will be my incentive!

If not, we are going to HH for family vacation later in the summer, so I will still look forward to it.

 

[lllovell]

lllovell - I love your post because it makes me sound like such a busy, stressed mom and it's therefore wonderfully easy for me to justify this all to myself!!!! The facts are, however:

No hubby (ex - sorry I wasn't clear about WHY DDs were on a trip without me over spring break!!!)

These cleaning jobs I've been putting off aren't exactly DD helpable, if you know what I mean. They mostly involve decisions about things I stored from my mother's house when she died several years ago, or old things in the attic. I know DDs would help if I asked, but then I would have to listen to, "You can't throw that away - it was Nana's!" and really, I have to make those decisions myself. I can't keep every single Tupperware container just because Nana used to store the macaroni and cheese in it!!

For now, I'm a stay at home mom with school-age children, so if I were better organized and didn't spend so much time on the computer, I'd have finished these chores long ago. I just keep putting them off, and I had told myself that if I traveled at spring break, I couldn't go again while the girls were away!!!!

But thank you for the support - and the girls ARE cleaning out their closets - I am cracking the whip upstairs and you should see the fur fly!! You wouldn't believe how many times this past weekend I heard, "Hey, Mom, guess what I found in my room?" !!!!!!!

NO NO NO MOM!! You STILL deserve it!!!! When do you get a chance to go places without your girls and truly unwind? I see exactly what you mean about needing to do some of those chores yourself (I have to do things like that without hubby around or else I don't get to toss anything), but I really like your plan of doing some of it and also giving yourself a break.

Oh, and you aren't fooling me saying you aren't busy! You are a mother. A stay at home mom to boot. ppfftttt You are busy! (I am a working mom, one sister is a stay at home mom, and I could not being to say that she doesn't work as hard as I - - - I am about to hire a housekeeper just so I can spend more time doig "fun" things on the weekends rather than trying to keep up with the mopping, laundry, scrubbing tubs, etc.)

 

[DVCLiz]

Aaahhh, lllovell, excellent enabling!!!!!! Exactly the justification I needed to hear!!! And because I thought to myself, "Now why can't you go get started on that right now and work on it for an hour before the girls get home?" I have actually opened a closet and looked in it. Not exactly cleaning I know, but more of a glimpse to see what my game plan will be. Also I rearranged a bookshelf and I will have some books to donate to my local library sale soon, so that is progress as well. Many thanks - now let's hope that waitlist comes through!!!

And darn this DVC - if I had to actually PAY for this I wouldn't do it. But there those points are, burning a hole in my pocket, and with HH within an easy driving distance (if I don't think about the gas cost!!) and a few groceries, it's practically free!!

 

[Scoootch]

Vacation or Clean House?

That is a retorical question right??!

Go to Disney and ENJOY!!