What better way to start off the week than with a confession of some of the things I’m not good at?
1. Making dinner. This includes planning it ahead, sometimes making it at all, or making a full dinner. I usually just don’t think about what we’re going to have for dinner until the end of the day when it’s time to have dinner. Being a mostly vegetarian family, it’s difficult to pull together a well-balanced meal in a short amount of time because most vegetarian dishes take a couple of hours to cook.
So, we end up having a one dish meal that does not include enough food groups to call it balanced. Luckily, my crazy children eat plenty of fruit and vegetables during the day, so it’s not like they’re missing some important nutrients. They’re just missing the experience of having a mom that makes a full, well-balanced meal each night. :-)
2. Writing Reviews. Is it terrible that I ask for readers and book bloggers to review my book, and yet I don’t leave reviews? I have listed 78 books as “read” on Goodreads since I became a member in June, and only one of those has a written review. (And I can’t tell you which one, because I have no idea.)
Why? Because I suck at writing reviews, and I just don’t like to do things that I can’t do well. (That doesn’t include learning to do something—I love learning to do something and don’t worry that I’m not any good at it to begin with. But if it turns out I’m not any good at it after the learning period, then I don’t tend to continue doing it.)
3. Asking for help. I’m just not comfortable with it most of the time. Every so often I am forced to step out of my comfort zone and ask, and it stresses me out each time. Yet when I do, there are always friends and family more than happy to help. You’d think I’d be better at it with the positive response I get each time, but no. (Maybe someday.) (Yeah . . . probably not.)
4. Staying away from sugar. I should. I know I should. But I *love* it sooooooooooo much. Maybe I can get better at this one. (Hmm. But maybe I don’t want to.) :-)
5. Keeping my house neat and organized. I have four kids. Need I say more? Okay. I’m sure there are plenty of people with lots of kids who have an immaculate house, so I can’t really blame this on the kids. It’s not them, it’s me. I’m not organized enough to put things in their rightful place all the time. And we have too much stuff, so not everything has a rightful place. I am hoping to get better at this because I pine for a neat, clean, organized house and a massive purging of all of our extra stuff. One of these days, right?
This list could go on, but I’m going to stop there. :-) There are always things we’d like to do better, right? But honestly, though I would like to be better at all these things, I don’t really worry about it. I do a lot of things well—some very well—so why should I sweat the small stuff? My family is happy, I’m happy . . . I must be doing most things right. :-)
What about you?
Happy Monday, everyone! Hope your week is starting out well.
