Some kind of motivated.

Today I started off farther behind that I care to admit. And somehow, I thought that pulling out a sewing project that seemed to be necessary to do very soon would be a good way to combat this.

After about an hour of trying to sew against the insurmountable odds of a machine that was not working right, a project that all of the sudden didn't seem as useful as it at first appeared, and a certain 2 year old that was running wild through the house, I gave up. Very. Frustrated.

Then I was hungry. And the kitchen was still a mess. And there weren't any good looking leftovers. And then when i did sit Leah down to a haphazard lunch, no clean bibs could be found, even after dumping a basket of clean laundry that hadn't been folded all over my bedroom floor. And did I mention I was hungry?

I think that was when I had the breakdown.

After lunch, I didn't touch the sewing. I left it right there in the dining room. As a reminder of what 'else' I could be doing, and I made The List. This List contained a bunch of things that I have been frustrated with in the house but didn't quite have enough motivation to tackle them. And with that energy caused by major frustration, Leah and I spent almost 2 hours doing an (almost) complete job of cleaning the kitchen, including the big stack of dishes, the fridge, pantry, top of the fridge, and under the sink.

And then as a reward, for both of us, we went out in the yard and just relaxed. piggy back rides, walking around, swinging, riding, chasing a ball....it was good. And thankfully, at just the right time, we came in, read books, and she went right to sleep.

Then I tackled the rest of my list, always with a good view of my abandoned sewing project mess in the dining room. I cleaned out the hall closet to fit the stroller in there so it wouldn't have to be sitting out in the family room anymore. Which led me to reorganizing all the shoes and jackets. I fixed the area at the back door that seems to collect random things on their way down, or in or out. I fixed the bib problem by doing a few loads of laundry, including the folding, and puttting away, except for the things that needed to go to Leah's room.

All in all, I checked 10 things off my list of 12 things that I normally don't want to do. Leaving only two. "clean dining room" (where my sewing was still residing), and "mess up more sewing projects"

I'd say today turned out to be a success after all.

Unavoidable

Leah has had some sort of sickness since about saturday. She coughs and drools a lot, and has a runny nose. She has been fussy and not sleeping normally. Part of that one could be because of the time change.

Now however, I am feeling that tightness in my chest, and a headache, and starting to get congested. Great.

Dwight has been using the hand sanitizer like crazy. He isn't feeling great either.

I wasn't quite so good with the sanitizer because I guess I kinda figured my hands were the least of the problem. I spend all day trying to get her to blow her nose before she wipes it on me (accidentally of course). We have been workign on 'cover your mouth' when she coughs, but she dosen't always catch it, so I have had several germ blasts right to the face, or on my food. That is always a treat. The worst was when we were laying on the couch watching Dwight do something and she ... prepare yourself, cause I wasn't.... drooled on my mouth. yeah. It's been a really fun week to be a mom. haha.

Looks like the next week will be awesome as well. cough cough. sneeze. sniff.

I haven't gone to any of our usual places this week, and will probably miss bible studies today as well. It's not so bad, I'm a homebody. But it does make for some long days. Especially when it rains. But I hate it when I feel responsible for other kids being sick. And I don't like getting blamed for it. So. Here we are.

At least it's not the flu. (knocking on wood). PLEASE DON'T BE THE FLU......