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The school year has begun and there is a lot to learn. New teacher, new grade, new routines, new responsibilities, new ways of doing things. I have taught my child at home since kindergarten through an online school. It’s nice to do school at home and yet have teachers’ help with teaching. However, there are always bumps along the way. New teachers, new schedules, new ways and more responsibility which can cause friction, but patience goes a long way, especially with teachers and child(ren).

These are rough times due to the Corona virus. Families are having issues with just that alone; being home all of the time with their families in which they are so busy with extra-curricular activities, work, kids, going to a brick and mortar school, and electronics,  that they have hardly any time to spend with each other and talk to know each other and what’s going on and what everyone is dealing with in each of their lives, then you put them all in one place. It’s like putting strangers all in one place to live with and life gets very awkward and stressed because they don’t know how to engage with each other and come together as a team. Everyone in the house has lived such separate lives that they don’t know how to live and spend time with each other. This time of being quarantined will either bring a family together and they learn how to be a team or they break apart and become even more estranged with each other.

My family has always been a team and we love working together no matter how big or how small the activity or project is. Now we have even more division due to people being killed and in not just talking about Black Lives Matter situation. As a nation we have always been divided and now we are being even more divided because people don’t talk to each other or to others from different cultures to learn about each other, to come to understand each other, and help each other. We’re not working as a team. We are not team players. It’s now every man, woman, or child for themselves. That’s not things are suppose to be.

Anyway, I digress. I’m sorry I got off track a little, but this is my point, with me teaching my daughter at home and having help with an online school we are all learning to work together and help each other to work as a team. When we work together things happen and it’s powerful, but when we work by ourselves or against each other, a house divided CANNOT stand, it WILL fall.

I love working with my child’s teachers and my family as a team and that’s how a house can be built strong and stand strong.

I haven’t posted much here or on Facebook because I’m getting my family and home in order so that we can travel in the Uncluttered Lanes without cluttering them up.

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Teamwork makes the dream work! –John C. Maxwell

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I deal with anxiety at times depression, but I wonder if I have a bit of ADHD. At times I can be hyper-focused on a task, a project, just about anything. I grew up with a lot of stress and worry. I think that has caused a lot of my issues. At times when I would worry about something it would cause a complete shut down mentally that I would become paralyzed and couldn’t do anything, but just sit and worry about that thing.

Later in my years, there were fewer things that I needed to stress about because that issue was resolved or it was no more. I worried and stressed so much over things for most of my life that My mind would find things to worry or stress about. I think I might get mental fatigue very quickly because of being mentally fatigued growing up stressing over things/situations. I’m not a doctor or I have not been diagnosed, but this is my personal opinion.

On YouTube, I have listened to quite a few YouTubers on how to organize and manage a home. In some aspects, I am still learning as I go along. My mom became ill when I was young and she was bedridden for a couple of months and didn’t really ever recover from it. She dealt with depression and maybe anxiety for most of my life. When she became bedridden I had to do the cooking and “cleaning”. I use cleaning in quotes because, hey, I was a kid and kids don’t want to clean. I also had to do the dishes. We had so many dishes that we could go a week or so without washing, and that goes for cooking also. I procrastinated a lot because I didn’t want to do anything. I hated cleaning my room, actually, I should say that I hated tidying. We hardly ever cleaned, or at least I didn’t see my mom do it too often.

My parents got a divorce when I was really young. My mom and I moved from a three-bedroom, house to a three-room tiny house. It was literally tiny. The ceilings were about six feet high. My mom couldn’t lift her hands above her head because the ceilings were so low. We had a kitchen, dining room, and living room altogether in one room. There was a bedroom off to the side that was just big enough to have a full-size bed and a fold-up bed, twin size, and a dresser, and a small path to get into bed and to the bathroom and living area. Then we had a bathroom. We lived there for a short time until we moved into a two-bedroom apartment. The furniture seemed to be so big or we had so much of it that there as a path into every room of the apartment. I lived in clutter most of my life because we had sop much.

We had so much stuff that we did laundry twice a month and at times once a month. We could do dishes for almost every two weeks. There was a time I tried to get rid of some excess stuff, mostly dishes that for everyone that I got rid of it seemed that 10 more took its place. My mom would get so mad at me. That’s why I never decluttered tidied or cleaned. I felt like it was useless and I didn’t like getting yelled at. My mom never taught me how to properly take care of a house because she was so sick.

Now that I am older I am trying to teach my child to take care of a house more properly, a little at a time when there is a lot and not to let the house get so out of control. Not to get too stressed out about things and take a large task a little at a time. Interested in how I do it? Subscribe to my blog, Facebook page to follow me on my journey or contact me about my services.

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