I am now beginning to feel the time crunch of leaving for 2 weeks on holidays \u2013 really there is so much to do before Monday @ 6am how will I ever do it all??<\/p>\n
OK if you are a woman & you\u2019ve read that statement and can relate we need to talk!!\u00a0 Why do we do this to ourselves??\u00a0 Does the house really need to be cleaned before leaving on holidays \u2013 oh I know what you\u2019re thinking \u2013 it\u2019s nice to come home to a clean house\u2026well yes it is but it\u2019s also nice to leave on holidays with less stress knots in the shoulder\/neck area!\u00a0 Now let\u2019s reflect \u2013 I am not<\/strong> leaving the house empty \u2013 there will be 3 men\u2026.well 2 1\/2 Men\u2026.YIKES.\u00a0 It\u2019s really just something that was ingrained in me from my own Mother \u2013 we\u2019d be going somewhere and she\u2019d do a full top to bottom cleaning \u2013 of course I never paid much attention back then but I\u2019m sure she was asking herself why she was doing it. Part of that I\u2019m sure is that my StepDad was pretty anal about the house & its presentation and I\u2019m pretty sure my Mom\u2019s Dad was the same way.\u00a0 Lucky for me Clark is rather laid back \u2013 as long as he has clean clothes & food he\u2019s never gave me the stink eye about the condition of the house \u2013 even when the toilet has gotten to that stage of embarrassment.\u00a0 OH yah I said it \u2013 we\u2019ve all been there (if you haven\u2019t please skip down to the next paragraph) \u2013 you know the toilet gets to the point where you question sitting on it.\u00a0 God I hate cleaning toilets so I\u2019m the type to push it to the limit\u2026many times.\u00a0 I mean look what we\u2019re doing to it \u2013 an outhouse seems like a much better idea \u2013 once it\u2019s full move the house to a new hole \u2013 no fuss no muss!!<\/p>\n So back to the anxiety of I\u2019m leaving in 3 days \u2013 have chores to accomplish and here I sit on the computer catching up with people & their lives.\u00a0 Colton has asked a few times (in jest) what I\u2019m cooking & freezing for them to live on while I\u201dm away\u2026my very quick (was it too quick?) response was NOTHING!!\u00a0 Coming back to the Mom \u2013 she\u2019d have had a freezer full of food which is her way of showing she loves her family \u2013 I\u2019ll be brining them back a gift \u2013 a cheap trinket that they\u2019ll look at \u2013 thank me for \u2013 then toss into the corner of their room \u2013 that\u2019s my way of showing love \u2013 hahah.\u00a0 OK need to sign off \u2013 the\u00a0dryer is buzzing, the floors are dried and the oven is ready for the first prebaked meal to go into.<\/p>\n Ciao, S.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am now beginning to feel the time crunch of leaving for 2 weeks on holidays \u2013 really there is so much to do before Monday @ 6am how will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-girls-trip-2012"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}