So apparently I don't have wings...

Try as I might, I can't fly. In fact I am much more like the kiwi, the flightless bird. I have a nice long slender nose, my clutch contains only two eggs and like the kiwis eggs are disproportionate to the size of her body, my family's messes are disproportionate to the size of my family.

Now maybe if your families messes are proportionate in size the whole flying thing might work for you but try as I might, each time I attempt to fly I land with a thud. In general I am an organized person and i did create my own flylady journal but I just can't stick with it. I end up wasting tons of paper with printed checklists that never get used. Additionally I always feel like a failure because it just is not possible for me to succeed using this program, I just don't have big enough wings to get it all done.

So in homage to the kiwi, I am turning in my wings. I am no longer a FLYbaby whose mantra is "Finally Loving Myself." I am a Kiwi whose mantra is Kinda Immaculate While Instructing. Yes, I'm going to let go of the perfectionist image of what a "home" should look like because the Pottery Barn image can not be achieved while homeschooling. Kinda immaculate will work for me.

To get an idea of how silly it is to struggle with achieving something that it is just not possible for you to do, please what this great video entitles "Kiwi!". It is an "animation about a Kiwi - a type of bird that cannot fly, who spends its whole life working towards achieving his dream. The kiwi strived to create the illusion that it was flying over a forest as it soared down through the sky from the top of a cliff. Thus, the kiwi spent what must have been its whole life nailing trees to the side of a cliff. All this, to fulfil its one dream of flying, even though it was technically unable to." And of course, this darling little clip ends with what else...a thud!