Hey y'all! It's Friday and this mama is ready for the weekend! In fact, I don't think I've ever been more ready for the weekend as I am today! I envision myself sleeping in tomorrow and not having to pick up the house because my hubby is home today and all of the girls are at school, and I'm sure that at this very moment he is doing laundry, making the beds, and vacuuming, just like I asked him to do this morning.
(He reads my blog, so let's just hope that he's going to read todays post at some point today and not tonight sitting in his recliner.)
1. I saw this on facebook earlier this week and took a screen shot of it with my phone. I need this to become my mantra. Seriously, I need to remember it every single day.
This week has been all sorts of crazy in the evenings, and it's just a new phase in our life, but it's taking some adjusting to get use to. Once we get home in the evenings (around 5:00), I sit down to nurse Adalyn, and now that she has started baby food, I have to feed her right after she nurses. Which, makes it to 5:30, and by that time I'm trying to start dinner, I have two fussy big girls, and our house is just chaotic. Poor Adalyn wants to go to bed so early, and I've tried so hard to break her from that 4th nap, but her bedtime is getting to where it's around 6:00 and no later than 7, and that is if we're lucky. She just wants me to hold her and entertain her- that's the only way I can keep her awake, but it's impossible when you're trying to get all of our stuff from the day put away, cook dinner, eat dinner, clean up the kitchen, get hoemwork done, give the girls a bath.... it's just an exhausting time right now, and twice this week, DJ had recruiting events in the evenings so it's just been me trying to do it all, and it's just exhausting.
Anyway, rant over, I know it's just a season in our lives and in a few short weeks, I'm praying things will be easier, and in the mean time, I just need to remember to "Keep Calm, I am a Good Mom".... and so are you!
2. Tuesday morning G woke up and her eye was matted. I told DJ that I thought she had pink eye, and he didn't believe me. (Sometimes the girls have drainage in their eye due to allergies.) We went her to school and finally on Thursday morning the nurse called and said that she thought Gretchen had pink eye. I was fully aware and surprised they hadn't caught it sooner. I just could not take any days off right away and DJ was so busy with recruiting that we had to get by until one of us could take her to the doctor. Once school sent her home, I made her an appointment and DJ took her to the doctor. She got to stay home with him and they brought me lunch on Thursday.
3. My favorite time of day is when we finally have dinner over, baths done, a clean kitchen, a picked up living room, lunches and bottles fixed for the next day and we can finally sit down and relax. That's just what we were doing last night (and I was just exhausted) but Meggie kept saying and doing silly things. I'm so thankful that she can always put a smile on my face.
4. Then, I tucked her in bed around 7:50 (we try to have bed time at 7:30) but I was letting the girls stay up to watch American Idol. But, once we put Megan to bed, she makes it her mission to spend the next hour and a half (sometimes the next two hours) to get in and out of her bed. To cry and ask for her mommy, or her daddy, or a special toy, or a new cup of water, or she needs to go potty, or she makes a mess out of her once clean room, and then blames it on Gretchen (who sleeps upstairs and there's no way on God's green earth that Gretchen made that mess).... this girl is a staller, and y'all, she's a good one. Perhaps the best I have ever seen.
If I could cut out her naps at daycare then I totally would, but unfortunately, I have no control over that and thus, I spend two hours every night battling her to stay in her bed. And y'all, she usually wins, which is why last night, I found her sleeping on the floor in the entry way.
5. Next week is Valentine's day, and I found out that Gretchen would have to make her own Valentine's day box to take to school. I instantly dreaded the project, but I did what any good mom would do- I got on Pinterest and started pinning all of the adorable Valentine boxes that I could find, that way, Gretchen's would be the very best.
Last night, I said to myself, "you know what? Forget it, she can decorate her box however she likes, and if it's flat out the ugliest box i've ever seen, it doesn't matter." Why? Because it's hers! I'm going to give her a box and wrap it in purple wrapping paper (because that's the color we have) and then she has stickers and markers, and paper heart doilies that we bought from the Dollar Tree, and she can decorate her box to her heart's content.
The owl box above is stinking precious, but you all know that no child did that on their own. Absolutely not.
I am such a Type-A, but with three kids, I am learning to give up some of my control, and this is going to be one area, that I let Gretchen take over independently.
I'm also not going all out on Valentine cards. I wish I could. I wish I had the time. But, her friends are getting cards that have jokes on them, or that can be folded into paper airplanes, because that's what she picked out. Megan's class is getting a little box of sweettarts, because that's easy. And y'all, they've asked us to get cards for Adalyn's class! Um, she's 7 months old, she does not need a Valentine card or snack or candy or treat or anything else, because she doesn't know what it is. Do you think anyone will notice if I don't get her "friends" anything?
Whew..... okay, I feel like all I've done is rant today! Agh! Some days, we just need to rant. You need to see where my life is in this very moment, because maybe, just maybe, you're there too, and you want to know you're not alone.
Someone please tell me i'm not alone!
Y'all have a great weekend! Love you all to pieces!
