Laundry and lists

I'm only doing laundry three days a week now (when my neighbor bought the new machine she asked me to not use it every day) yet it seems like I am doing more laundry than ever! To stay on top of things, I need to do seven loads of laundry a week. I only wash 15 diapers at a time because my neighbor is worried about the machine being overloaded, so I need to do three loads a week. (That number is decreasing with John's increased use of the potty - notice that a decrease of two diapers a day equals one less load each week!) I wash sheets once a week, bath towels every other week, and kitchen towels every other week. That leaves two loads for clothing, which is reasonable unless we decide to go out for ice cream.

When I was doing wash Monday to Friday, if I put in an extra load on a day when I washed diapers, I felt like I was getting ahead. Now, I need to do three loads of wash on two of the days to not go crazy on Friday.

Two weeks ago, a friend gave us a ton of clothing for John - about six loads worth. What a blessing! Unfortunately, John is allergic to their laundry detergent. That brings up the laundry over two weeks from 14 loads on six laundry days to twenty loads on five laundry days (I'm going to go to the zoo on Friday). Both on Monday and today I did four loads!

I've started writing to-do lists each night with my difficult tasks for the day. This is day three and I'm on track to finish today's tasks. I've been breaking up difficult tasks into pieces; for example, I'm cleaning and organizing the disaster of a dining room this week. Each day I wrote to spend twenty minutes on the dining room and associated stuff. Miraculously, I am almost finished. Why did I procrastinate for four months on a task that in reality would take little over an hour and greatly improve my life???

More to come on lists and how using them is changing my life in the coming weeks...