Saturday, March 31, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
Anxieties of a half-finished home and other petty complaints....
Nearly 2 weeks ago I returned from a 2-week trip to Utah during which my little sister got married. We have written things of little significance since our return and I deeply apologize. In all truth, I have been a giant ball of stress ever since I got back and blogging when I am uptight is probably not a good idea, though I bet quite theraputic.
I suppose I am now living the reality of 2 children and realizing no matter how "quick" a household chore of any sort may be, I will always be interrupted at least half a dozen times before I decide to just finish at night when at least one child is asleep.
Question:
How is it possible that I spent all day cleaning prior to our trip, did laundry about every other day ON our trip and when I returned home I was up to my eyeballs in laundry and complete disorganization???
It seriously took me a good week and a half to catch up. I'm still tackling both but things are finally in satisfactory condition (not excellent, just satisfactory)
Why have I been uptight? I am done living half way. Granted, I am living more fully than I have since we married (moving on avg every 5 mos taught me to live a very simple life and do without many things!)- but I mean I want every room in my house DONE. For some reason when I came home from my trip I was so bothered by all of my half-way finished rooms and projects and was just sick to my stomach that I have lived in my home since August and still haven't finished. Things from window treatments to how I arrange my shoes in my closet.
Sounds like a petty desire, but this is all in the name of enjoying my home before we have to up and leave again. (perhaps I've developed a disorder from all of my moves that makes me think this is my last month here) To try and ease my anxieties the last several days (minus yesterday) I have been running around like a mad woman making zillions of trips to stores to try out fabrics and styles of window treatments. I have finally chosen Savannah's and soon will finish the hunt for our bedroom.
Next on my list after the window treatments: how to win my husband over on the idea of bedroom furniture.
How I LONG for the nights that I can reach over next to my bed, put the book down I am currently reading next to my nightstand and turn off the lamp sitting so conveniently on that very same night stand and go to sleep. Instead, the book lands on the floor and I have to get out of bed to turn off the light. How I long to have a dresser to put all my socks and t-shirts. How I long to open my closet to find only my OWN clothes in it rather than sharing it with my two children.... (you see, the plan is to put the chest of drawers we do have in our room in savannah's bedroom and put hers and Cade's clothes in it and THEN I wouldn't have to share a closet.) Ah, to unpack ALL of myclothes and have them staring before me would be wondersome.
Instead, I continue to share and have to swap seasonal clothes into bins and go through them every time the weather changes. I'm not really sure why KYLE doesn't want bedroom furnuture. I think he's just thinking about the next time we move and what a pain it'd be to move bedroom furniture. I could be wrong. And I KNOW it's not the money because the last two weeks he has come to me with a purchasing proposal with a single item that costs as much as a bedroom set would. (new laptop and a lawn aerator). Of course he's probably thinking those items would benefit someone more than just myself (he doesn't think he'd benefit from bedroom furniture apparently)so.... Well there you go. If anyone has a comment that would benefit my cause, please help me out. PLEASE.
I bet many of you are thinking "TAKE A CHILL PILL WOMAN!" Well, I've been telling myself the same thing so in order to repent of shutting my child in the house while I tried to get everything else in order for the last several days, I took him to the zoo, then to visit with his dear friend Afton, and then we went to McDonald's indoor playland. We were gone for 7 hours and he had so much fun he is hoarse today. At least I think that's why he has no voice. He did an awful lot of shouting and squealing and such. Today I sat down and though there was laundry to be folded, dishes to do, bills to pay, errands to run, I played with him until nap time.
Well there you have it. I will share more exciting updates in future installments. Until then, I think I am going to take a nap!
I suppose I am now living the reality of 2 children and realizing no matter how "quick" a household chore of any sort may be, I will always be interrupted at least half a dozen times before I decide to just finish at night when at least one child is asleep.
Question:
How is it possible that I spent all day cleaning prior to our trip, did laundry about every other day ON our trip and when I returned home I was up to my eyeballs in laundry and complete disorganization???
It seriously took me a good week and a half to catch up. I'm still tackling both but things are finally in satisfactory condition (not excellent, just satisfactory)
Why have I been uptight? I am done living half way. Granted, I am living more fully than I have since we married (moving on avg every 5 mos taught me to live a very simple life and do without many things!)- but I mean I want every room in my house DONE. For some reason when I came home from my trip I was so bothered by all of my half-way finished rooms and projects and was just sick to my stomach that I have lived in my home since August and still haven't finished. Things from window treatments to how I arrange my shoes in my closet.
Sounds like a petty desire, but this is all in the name of enjoying my home before we have to up and leave again. (perhaps I've developed a disorder from all of my moves that makes me think this is my last month here) To try and ease my anxieties the last several days (minus yesterday) I have been running around like a mad woman making zillions of trips to stores to try out fabrics and styles of window treatments. I have finally chosen Savannah's and soon will finish the hunt for our bedroom.
Next on my list after the window treatments: how to win my husband over on the idea of bedroom furniture.
How I LONG for the nights that I can reach over next to my bed, put the book down I am currently reading next to my nightstand and turn off the lamp sitting so conveniently on that very same night stand and go to sleep. Instead, the book lands on the floor and I have to get out of bed to turn off the light. How I long to have a dresser to put all my socks and t-shirts. How I long to open my closet to find only my OWN clothes in it rather than sharing it with my two children.... (you see, the plan is to put the chest of drawers we do have in our room in savannah's bedroom and put hers and Cade's clothes in it and THEN I wouldn't have to share a closet.) Ah, to unpack ALL of myclothes and have them staring before me would be wondersome.
Instead, I continue to share and have to swap seasonal clothes into bins and go through them every time the weather changes. I'm not really sure why KYLE doesn't want bedroom furnuture. I think he's just thinking about the next time we move and what a pain it'd be to move bedroom furniture. I could be wrong. And I KNOW it's not the money because the last two weeks he has come to me with a purchasing proposal with a single item that costs as much as a bedroom set would. (new laptop and a lawn aerator). Of course he's probably thinking those items would benefit someone more than just myself (he doesn't think he'd benefit from bedroom furniture apparently)so.... Well there you go. If anyone has a comment that would benefit my cause, please help me out. PLEASE.
I bet many of you are thinking "TAKE A CHILL PILL WOMAN!" Well, I've been telling myself the same thing so in order to repent of shutting my child in the house while I tried to get everything else in order for the last several days, I took him to the zoo, then to visit with his dear friend Afton, and then we went to McDonald's indoor playland. We were gone for 7 hours and he had so much fun he is hoarse today. At least I think that's why he has no voice. He did an awful lot of shouting and squealing and such. Today I sat down and though there was laundry to be folded, dishes to do, bills to pay, errands to run, I played with him until nap time.
Well there you have it. I will share more exciting updates in future installments. Until then, I think I am going to take a nap!
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
Why women live longer...
In the interest of fairness, allow me to direct you to this:
It is a photo contest explaining why women live longer than men.
It is a photo contest explaining why women live longer than men.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
7 Jeans: The World's Best Blue Jean
I know that I have criticized others for buying these jeans and now I need to publicly apologize to everyone. I can't say that the jeans are worth $180--the original price--but definitely worth the $39 they were marked down to. Seriously they are possibly the best pants I have ever worn. Anyone of you that might own a pair of these would you agree or disagree? I guess it all happened by accident-I had an hour to kill so I went into a store to just "look" around and then I saw the pants. They were the right size. There was only one pair left. I decided it couldn't hurt to try them on. WOW! I am now converted to the gospel of Seven Jeans. Go try on a pair tomorrow! (I suppose the worst part about this is that my wife doesn't even own a pair of these)
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Cade, you little rascal......
Would you believe that this cute, little rascal just went to the bathroom on his own (number 2 ) and tried to flush it out of his "little potty" to the "super potty" all by himself. IT DIDN'T WORK!
Is this normal???
That is all for this post.
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