I’d say we need a vacation, but vacations aren’t really vacations for us. We have to pack 50 tons of stuff in order to duplicate our daily life and retain some sense of the routine, or else chaos ensues. Often spending somewhere between hours and days walking laps in a different environment trying to get used to it, about two days away from home and J-Man starts becoming unglued, which means we do too. So it’s pretty much like trying to recreate our home and routine in some strange place, which is just more hassle than it’s usually worth.

Ugh. I don’t know. I guess I just need to reboot my perspective or something.

Oh, do I know the feeling of days like that! Hugs to your family from ours.

The theoretical goal is to offload all that stuff into some organization system that you trust and will refer back to regularly. He said a big part of GTD is being able to consciously choose *not* to do something in any given moment and knowing it’s written down so you can come back to it later without having to worry about it in the interim. That’s a bit of a simplified version of it, but it has helped me in patches. The hard part is making sure you carve out the time to regularly work through your lists, which is where I’m failing at the moment. I get to where I’m just too tired to care sometimes. That’s the big problem.

@Gigi – Yesterday was rough. He’s still feeling bad and the whole house seems to have gone into our own respective rough patches. Usually after his bath, J-Man stands up to get his pull-up on, and once that’s done, he gives me a quick kiss and starts off toward his room. Last night he just stood there peacefully and looked at me. (Great eye contact!!) Then he gave me a hug. And then he stood there a minute and apparently decided one didn’t solve the problem, so he did it again and hugged me longer.

In about a minute, he erased a whole day of me feeling down. He knew when he hugs me and looks with eyes full of love that he so often has that I often forget everything that’s going wrong around here. Who says they don’t understand?