Feeling Motivated and a Little Refreshed

I didn't do anything to make myself feel motivated but maybe getting snowed in for three days helps with reevaluating things. New fallen snow can do that with all its untouched beauty you know, and when there is a foot of it, I guess it gives you a foot of things to reevaluate. Lately, I have been feeling like I can barely get through a day and take care of Little Lady and clean house and do laundry, etc, let alone blog. But I'm starting to feel better and I'm starting to realize that I think that I put expectations on myself that are unrealistic. Yes, I haven't had any energy lately and seeing the heaps of laundry that need to be washed and the dog hair and cheerios that need to be vacuumed can do little for a persons motivation, it's slowly coming back. But not in it's usual I have to get everything done every day kind of way. Thanks to a good friends blog about her pajama Fridays with her girls, I have realized I can do all the fun things and pick up a little during the week but maybe, just maybe, I need to change my thinking on the way my house needs to look. This week I took a different route into my week of being the "perfect" SAHM. I picked up the toys, did the dishes, threw in a load of laundry every day. BUT, I didn't force the cleaning. I said to myself, that this Friday, Little Lady and I are going to stay in and I'm going to clean. And what would you know, I, for the first time in a few weeks, have gotten the entire downstairs clean. Like, REALLY clean. And I didn't stress out about it, I had dance time outs with my girl during her fav parts of Happy Feet and had sit down convos with the hubs since he came home sick today. I don't have to stress out every day that I'm not getting enough done. And knowing that I was dedicating a whole day to get it all done helped me get through my week. So, like I said I finally found my motivation - just in a little different direction - AND it makes me feel refreshed to know I CAN do things differently with the outcome I want, actually with an outcome I like a lot more.