My husband and I often say to our children, “You can’t do everything.”
This usually comes on the heels of a laundry list of activities they’re trying to squeeze into in afternoon. Or more accurately the last thirty minutes before bed.
“You can’t do all of this,” my husband will say, “pick one.” And so begins the intense negotiations of which activity they want to do right now, and what can wait.
It’s been a good life lesson for them, and for me, too.
As homemakers we can’t do everything. We can’t catch up on laundry and dishes and cook everything from scratch and complete a full day of homeschooling all in one day. Or at least, I can’t.
If we have a full day of schoolwork I likely only did one or two loads of laundry and dinner was simple and easy.
If I spent the day cleaning, cooking, and catching up on laundry it’s likely that we didn’t get any book work done that day. Because I can’t do everything. Certainly not in one day.
But I can work steadily over the course of the week. Slowly chipping away at my homemaking and homeschooling tasks, prioritizing items from my list based on the needs of the day.
And because my goal is a well-run, peaceful home —rather than trying to do it all— a slow and steady pace over the course of the week usually the answer.
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