*Warning: This post contains Stranger Things 2 Spoilers

I tell myself at least once a week that today is the day I’m going to get organized.

It’s never going to happen.

There are some areas of my life that are organized, and then other areas that are… let’s just say “not” and feel good about that being the understatement of the year.

I keep thinking that today is the day that I’m going to organize the kids’ clothes, playroom, kitchen, sewing stuff, or even wade through my emails.

You know what…  I’m not going to get around to it.

I’d like to believe that this is the stage of my life where I have it together, but the reality is that this is the “maintenance” stage of life.

I don’t have hours to spend carefully organizing my linen closet. Let’s be honest, it’s a miracle when I actually put the clean linens in the closet.

I don’t have the patience to constantly reorganize the playroom after the kiddos “clean” it.

And I swear my emails multiply exponentially over night (sorry if you’ve emailed me recently and not gotten a reply, you’re in there somewhere!).

Right now I am just trying to contain the mess.

Think the scheduled burns on Stranger Things 2. I know it’s a losing battle, but I have to do something, I don’t have Eleven to come close the portal.

I’m realistic, I know the chaos is expanding, but I’m hoping to keep it to a manageable level.

I guess I’m going to have to settle for having some things organized.

I mostly clean my house, I usually show up for playdates, our library books are generally turned in on time, and I keep up with my paying job ok.

While I’m going to breathe and make my peace for the limitations today, I’m still going to daydream about the day when I have a few hours to myself and all I do is tackle one project after another (is that anyone else’s dream “vacation”? Your family gone for a few days, and the house to yourself to clean/catch up… it does sound lovely)