It was a very busy day--it is 10 o'clock and its still not done--cuz My son is still awake! I took the girls swimming at the Y tonight (part of the plan to go to the 1 or 2 nights a week with the family). We had a blast and I am so glad that I put it in to the schedule, even though it makes the night or nights we go kind of busy.

I am hitting a wall with the dishes. For those of you who know me, this is my life long problem! As I sit here and type, the counter is FULL of dirty dishes. I HATE doing dishes! I mostly have the girls do them, but somehow we have let them procrastinate. Also, Emily hurt her back and hasn't been doing her share. Even without dishes, my schedule has been packed everyday (except Sunday). Also, I have really bad wrists (ask my mom and sisters) and washing dishes literally causes pain afterward. It 's so bad, that I should ice them after I do dishes. But, mostly I just hate doing dishes!!

So, what do I do about this??? My thinking is that if I can't conquer the dishes problem, I will never be able to call myself a disciplined person. No, I am not being too hard on myself. It really is a SIMPLE matter of discipline and breaking of a life long habit . It should work itself out with the whole schedule, but, it seems like every time that life gets too busy, the dishes are the first thing that gets dropped. Then we are all stressed in the morning having to wash this or that dish, just to be able to eat breakfast!! (BTW, we do not have a dish washer that works and we basically agreed to move in to this house as is--so our landlord isn't really obligated to fix it and we have not asked him to--yet.). So, once the dishes are caught up and I am starting from a clean slate, I am going to get to the bottom of this--once and for all! Any thoughts or comments on this one?

My other big problem is limiting my food intake. This is a discussion for another night and is one other issue that will make or break whether or not I will be able to call myself a disciplined person. In one of the next posts, I will tell you a funny story about limits.

For now it is time to end day 10! Yeah! I'm a third of the way to my goal! A pat on the back is in order!!!