When your to-do list is longer than the timeframe in which you have to complete the tasks at hand, there is usually a problem. Thankfully, due to my wonderful friends, I am pretty confident that I'll be able to pull this all off. Even if it takes me working nonstop until M wakes up on her birthday morning.!!!
I just keep repeating my mantra -
This will all get done! This will all get done! This will all get done!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
two seconds... go!
this is a two second check in, because i have been saying (since 10:30) that i have to go to bed. and here, at almost midnight, i am still not in bed...
i am feeling great about the parties-statuses (or is that stati?) things are really coming together and my craftiness has yet to fail me (i still have two more days, though, and several more things to make, so i should not even attempt to jinx myself here.) the next party, next weekend, is set, and i just finished the type for the baby's big first birthday party, just one more week later.
three parties in three weeks... no problem!
and now, to get some mental rest before tomorrow's cleaning bonanza!
i am feeling great about the parties-statuses (or is that stati?) things are really coming together and my craftiness has yet to fail me (i still have two more days, though, and several more things to make, so i should not even attempt to jinx myself here.) the next party, next weekend, is set, and i just finished the type for the baby's big first birthday party, just one more week later.
three parties in three weeks... no problem!
and now, to get some mental rest before tomorrow's cleaning bonanza!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Cleaning Fairies!
Today, i was blessed with about an hour and a half of "free" time. My good friend took M to the park, and B fell asleep minutes after they left. then i hit M's room to CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN! i am sure i have mentioned here before that my almost four-year-old is a hoarder. i mean, possibly a few scraps of paper away from me calling TLC. so, cleaning her room is always an experience. i did my best to sort and get rid of all the extraneous crap that she collects as treasures (like a plethora of stickers that don't stick anymore, old business cards, and coupons- she's obsessed with coupons.) i decided it would be a good idea to pack up all of her polly pockets and small knick knacks and toys and move them upstairs for the party on saturday. there are going to be way too many kids roaming these rooms for me to be monitoring who is watching out for a 3cm long polly pocket shoe from the babies.
i moved so much stuff out, about 12 trips of shoe boxes and plastic containers worth, to the attic. yet, somehow, her room did not appear to look that different from when i started. at least there was no more dust.
actually, by the time i was all finished, her room looked great, and it was very exciting to have her come home, walk into her room, and react with an, "OH MY GOODNESS! How did this get so clean?!?" I told her it was the cleaning fairies. i told her that she should help them out by keeping her room clean. we also bribed her with a quarter a day if her room "passes" inspection. she was very excited by all of this, and even cleaned up her barbies after playing tonight (without being asked! amazing!) we'll see how long this lasts! hopefully, at least, until saturday!
i moved so much stuff out, about 12 trips of shoe boxes and plastic containers worth, to the attic. yet, somehow, her room did not appear to look that different from when i started. at least there was no more dust.
actually, by the time i was all finished, her room looked great, and it was very exciting to have her come home, walk into her room, and react with an, "OH MY GOODNESS! How did this get so clean?!?" I told her it was the cleaning fairies. i told her that she should help them out by keeping her room clean. we also bribed her with a quarter a day if her room "passes" inspection. she was very excited by all of this, and even cleaned up her barbies after playing tonight (without being asked! amazing!) we'll see how long this lasts! hopefully, at least, until saturday!
T minus Five Days!
i am sitting in the dark dining room at almost midnight. my computer has less than a few percent charge, and although my plug is less than four feet from me, i am just too tired to get up and plug it in. But this is not just a normal midnight exhaustion... This is because I have accomplished more tonight than i have in weeks!
i cleaned the dining room (hence me being able to sit at the table again!) all traces of consignment sale carnage are gone! i also cut out 45 head bands for the big party this weekend. this sounds much less time consuming than it actually was. and i am pretty sure that i now have carpal tunnel syndrome. i'm going to bed! and to rest my wrist, because many more fun crafts await this week with our T-minus-five-day countdown on! i need to rest up! good night!
i cleaned the dining room (hence me being able to sit at the table again!) all traces of consignment sale carnage are gone! i also cut out 45 head bands for the big party this weekend. this sounds much less time consuming than it actually was. and i am pretty sure that i now have carpal tunnel syndrome. i'm going to bed! and to rest my wrist, because many more fun crafts await this week with our T-minus-five-day countdown on! i need to rest up! good night!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Singing in the Rain.
Well, we weren't quite singing, but M and I did do quite a bit of squealing as the baby shrieked her head off during the deluge we got caught in today. We were attending a big annual festival that we love and we had just gotten in line for the ferris wheel, when the sky gave a foreboding nod and then opened right up. We stood under a tree for a while, thinking it would pass. It did not. The baby had already begun screaming, which wasn't surprising. She had battled a fever all of last night and then fought sleep all of today. She was less than thrilled with life as it was, the rain just added a sour cherry on top.
I decided to run for it, even though we had parked at least a half mile away. We were already soaked, so how bad could it be? Well, let's just say that the rain that soaked us under the tree was like a light drizzle compared to what we experienced on the run to the car. i'm pretty sure that maybe only Noah had seen rain like this before. It was INSANE! And amazing, at the exact same time. Had the baby not been screaming and shivering and trying to claw her way out of her stroller, it would have actually been fun. M was in heaven, jumping in ponds (there were no little puddles anymore) and running through rivers! I have been a fan of rain since forever, so i was overjoyed! It's such a cleansing of the soul when a hard rain falls over me.
The baby, well, she's fine. now. we got home and the girls took a long hot bath, followed by a warm bottle for the baby and chocolate milk for M. that was a great end to the day for both of them! and i sipped my warm tea and smiled at the sight we three must have made running through the park in the rain.
I decided to run for it, even though we had parked at least a half mile away. We were already soaked, so how bad could it be? Well, let's just say that the rain that soaked us under the tree was like a light drizzle compared to what we experienced on the run to the car. i'm pretty sure that maybe only Noah had seen rain like this before. It was INSANE! And amazing, at the exact same time. Had the baby not been screaming and shivering and trying to claw her way out of her stroller, it would have actually been fun. M was in heaven, jumping in ponds (there were no little puddles anymore) and running through rivers! I have been a fan of rain since forever, so i was overjoyed! It's such a cleansing of the soul when a hard rain falls over me.
The baby, well, she's fine. now. we got home and the girls took a long hot bath, followed by a warm bottle for the baby and chocolate milk for M. that was a great end to the day for both of them! and i sipped my warm tea and smiled at the sight we three must have made running through the park in the rain.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Pictures of You
I am in the process of moving pictures off my laptop and onto my hard drive. It's taken me years to finally do this, and with seven million other things that NEED to be done this weekend, i decided that tonight was a great night to start. And i've been sitting at my computer for hours because of this urge to purge!
I have estimated that we have taken approximately 4,000 pictures a year. This has seemed to average about 10 GB per year. I am on my third year of deleting. This is going to do wonders for my poor laptop, who may as well be sounding like the old gray engine who puffs, "I cannot; I cannot; I cannot," around the mountain. Every day i am barraged with messages from my system telling me that i don't have enough space to update, or upload pictures, or do much of anything, really. I used to be pretty diligent about things like this, but since having children, i'm lucky if i get my own hair cut more than three times a year. So, moving/deleting pictures definitely doesn't rank.
I'm going to stop typing now, because it's hiccuping and i'm probably impeding the last big move of the night. and i really don't want to sit here any longer. Maybe tomorrow, the super fast speed of my freshened computer will rub off on my brain and give me a jolt of fresh ideas to write about!
I have estimated that we have taken approximately 4,000 pictures a year. This has seemed to average about 10 GB per year. I am on my third year of deleting. This is going to do wonders for my poor laptop, who may as well be sounding like the old gray engine who puffs, "I cannot; I cannot; I cannot," around the mountain. Every day i am barraged with messages from my system telling me that i don't have enough space to update, or upload pictures, or do much of anything, really. I used to be pretty diligent about things like this, but since having children, i'm lucky if i get my own hair cut more than three times a year. So, moving/deleting pictures definitely doesn't rank.
I'm going to stop typing now, because it's hiccuping and i'm probably impeding the last big move of the night. and i really don't want to sit here any longer. Maybe tomorrow, the super fast speed of my freshened computer will rub off on my brain and give me a jolt of fresh ideas to write about!
Friday, September 23, 2011
Another Friday Night.
The work week is through. School is over. Another week has come to an end. Another weekend to look forward to. Another week ahead. These are the sentiments i think as i am about to call it a night. i may as well add in that another year is coming to an end. i could probably go deeper, but i won't. we all know that time is moving, and that we move right along with it. so, with that, i will go to sleep.
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