Do you even have one? 
My air-quotes work ethic has been to get all of the hard work stuff out of the way before I kick back and relax. I have been that way since I was a little girl. My parents grew up in large Italian immigrant households, post-Depression, and that had been drilled into their heads and then it was drilled into mine. "You don't deserve to relax until all of the hard work is done" - paraphrased family motto
Up until a few years ago, that is how I thought about work and housework as a stay-at-home mom too. Now that my kids are adults ( they live at home but are adults as much as they *hate* to admit it) and even more since the pandemic started I find that the focus of my work ethic has slipped while at the same time, the mentality of it is still in place. That means that I will spend all day trying to do things that are work/home related before sitting down to "relax" or whatever that means at this point in time.
Unfortunately to my mind, scrapping is a leisure activity which means it gets bumped to the end of the day. This is usually right before I start cooking dinner so if I a lucky, I might have a half-hour to work on a page. I can't do anything for a page in less than an hour. So it gets bumped to the next day. After my "work" is done. Lather, rinse, repeat *eye roll* My last page took me FIVE days to finish.
I wish there was a way to get my brain to accept doing the fun things first and dealing with the work stuff later but I guess after 50 and stopped counting years of life, it isn't going to happen, at least not easily.
That got me thinking about how the rest of you scrap. Are you able to throw everything to the wind and spend as much time scrapping and if there are dishes in the sink or coupons to be clipped, so be it? Is it something that you do after the family is in bed and the house is quiet? Or are you more like me, you can scrap whenever the rest of your tasks are done?
My air-quotes work ethic has been to get all of the hard work stuff out of the way before I kick back and relax. I have been that way since I was a little girl. My parents grew up in large Italian immigrant households, post-Depression, and that had been drilled into their heads and then it was drilled into mine. "You don't deserve to relax until all of the hard work is done" - paraphrased family motto
Up until a few years ago, that is how I thought about work and housework as a stay-at-home mom too. Now that my kids are adults ( they live at home but are adults as much as they *hate* to admit it) and even more since the pandemic started I find that the focus of my work ethic has slipped while at the same time, the mentality of it is still in place. That means that I will spend all day trying to do things that are work/home related before sitting down to "relax" or whatever that means at this point in time.
Unfortunately to my mind, scrapping is a leisure activity which means it gets bumped to the end of the day. This is usually right before I start cooking dinner so if I a lucky, I might have a half-hour to work on a page. I can't do anything for a page in less than an hour. So it gets bumped to the next day. After my "work" is done. Lather, rinse, repeat *eye roll* My last page took me FIVE days to finish.
I wish there was a way to get my brain to accept doing the fun things first and dealing with the work stuff later but I guess after 50 and stopped counting years of life, it isn't going to happen, at least not easily.
That got me thinking about how the rest of you scrap. Are you able to throw everything to the wind and spend as much time scrapping and if there are dishes in the sink or coupons to be clipped, so be it? Is it something that you do after the family is in bed and the house is quiet? Or are you more like me, you can scrap whenever the rest of your tasks are done?
