This week has been pretty busy and I haven't been home too much during the day. A casualty of that has been the laundry starting to really pile up. I figured I would get around to it this weekend. The hubby took a look at the big pile of laundry a few days ago and asked me if I was "on strike." Sometimes my husband is a real comedian :) When we got married, doing the laundry become one of my household "chores." I wash all the dirty laundry, fold it and sort it, but my family members are responsible for putting their own clothes away. It's a system that for the most part has worked well all these years. A few weeks ago, I happened to have the television on in the early afternoon and caught a little of Katie Couric's new talk show. She had a mom on her show that did go "on strike" from her household chores. The mom stopped doing everything like making meals, etc. for a set amount of time. I guess the mom was frustrated from picking up after her family and didn't feel appreciated. Going on strike is a bit extreme, but maybe the mom felt she had no other choice. Personally, I think it's better to talk to your family before it gets to that point. When you make meals, clean the house, wash dishes, etc., you might not always get a thank you from your family. That's when it's good to give them a "gentle" reminder about all that you do, so they don't take you for granted :) One of the things I do almost daily is to sweep our kitchen floor and the hallways near our front door, closet and mudroom. It's one of those "chores" that if I didn't do, the dust bunnies would be bigger than Dominic!! Some moms have set days they clean, wash laundry, etc. I would get too stressed out having to follow some kind of schedule like that. But, everyone is different. I say, if it works for you and your family, go for it!! Yesterday, I did finally tackle that huge pile of laundry. The hubby didn't say anything, but I think secretly he was happy I finally did it!!
When Dominic was diagnosed with Autism at 2 1/2, I went to our local library and took out every book I could find about Autism. Sometimes I would bring back 20 books. This was 2006, so a lot of the information was very "dated." I guess I was looking for a book that would tell me what I should do next, like a "manual." Autism doesn't quite work that way! The saying is, " if you know one person with Autism, you know one person with Autism." Every mom to an individual with Autism follows their own "path." I think as moms, we judge ourselves much harder than anyone else does. I was 41 when I had Dominic. Did he get the diagnosis of Autism because I was an older mom? because I drank a lot of pop? I could sit and think about that every minute of every day. I am pretty integrated into the Autism community around Lansing and have told more than one person that it took me about two weeks to come to terms with Dominic's diagnosis. It is so incredib...
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