accomplished

Yesterday turned out to be a kind of awesomely nice day. So much for the rain. However, it’s here today, as well as a threat of thunderstorms and I’m soooo hoping for one!

I’m not sure if anyone noticed, but I went back and added a short to-do list yesterday. I never got around to the Easter post, but I did get A LOT of laundry done (I did about 5 loads, I have 2 left to do – I told you – I let it get BAD!!). And – I finished Luke’s 1st scrapbook album!!! All but the title page, which I’m going to do shortly. He’s officially caught up through his first 6 months, which ends at the start of August 2009. Which means I am about 8 months behind now. It doesn’t seem impressive, but compared to the YEAR hole I was in – that feels like accomplishment! I COULD put my things away now and feel decent about not being able to pull them back out for a while. But – I think I’m going to keep going for a week or two. The more ahead I get, the better I’ll feel about it later. I’m really not sure how long of a process painting, moving, unpacking, organizing, decorating….etc, will be….in addition to throwing Mallory’s shower, doing projects for her wedding, and possibly starting up babysitting. It will probably take some time before I’m able to craft again, and I’m sure by then my time will be limited, anyway. SO, the more ahead I get now the better. 

It just went so smoothly yesterday! I did 12 pages while Luke napped!! That’s kind of a record for me. Granted, they are pretty boring pages, but they are DONE! I did 2 more WITH Luke (which, yes, was a project!). I had him hold my Glue Glider Pro (it’s like a pimp tape runner sort of deal) while I added adhesive to the backs of my pictures and he thought he was soooo cool. I thought it would be less than 10 pages to finish – but when I went through my pictures it looked like it was going to be about 20! I worked them down into 14, so that was a little better. My book is still ridiculously huge. Like, testing the limits of it. I really really wanted his first 6 months in one place, but I may have to divide it even further eventually. I feel like the book stopped behaving sometime around 3 months worth of stuff. Which is quite a lot, considering I have my entire pregnancy & baby shower included in this book. Hmm. Maybe I should consider doing that before I get going again. I do have 3 empty albums to work with.

Anyway……these are totally thoughts I could keep in my head lol.

I really desperately need children to watch. Some days I get a little sad thinking that my days won’t ONLY be about Luke (like when I take him for walks in his wagon I picture another child in there with him that’s not mine – stealing his snack – pissing him off, and I’m like UGH, do I really want someone else’s kids everyday?). But at the same time, I loooove kids and while I’m sure there will be days I will wish it was just Luke & I again, I will have a lot of fun sitting. I seem to be in kind of a fantasy world about it. Like….I want more kids, but I still have this vision of Luke just being happy, doing his thing with no interruptions, and that won’t be true with a sibling! It’s hard to remember sometimes that he won’t always be the baby. 

I haven’t found a lot of takers yet. I have one girl from Buffalo Mommies that I’ve been in talks with. She doesn’t need a full time sitter, though. It would be some full days, some half days, and never consistent. She only needs childcare while she is taking some classes. Which is fine – anything will help! She has two kids, a 6 year old boy and a 3 year old girl. Hopefully something will pan out there. Also, my sister-in-law wants me to watch my future niece/nephew at least one day a week come September. That will be a chore at first considering she/he will only be about 2-3 months old at the time. OYE. At least that will only be one day a week. I know as she/he gets older I will love having them around – especially having a cousin in the house for Luke fairly often. But it will be tough for a while. I really need to find at least one consistent job, or at least semi-consistent. So I keep posting on craigslist, and when my posts on Buffalo Mommies expire I’ll post them again. I don’t want to over-load my plate, but since both of those opportunities are very temporary, I need to find ways to fill in the gaps. Of course it would be nice to not have kids every day I suppose – but I need to make more than like $50 a week, depending on how often they need me, ya know?

I can’t wait until this house crap is over. I just want IN my house!!! We had a huge issue with the bank last week over when our locked-in rate expired. They tried to tell us it would expire 4/17 with a $750 fee if we wanted to extend it. Which is really retarded since we told them we needed it until 5/14 the day we locked it in. Matt had to call all over the bank and get nasty to get them to change it. I want to not deal with loan processors and attorneys for like, the next 20 years lol.

I just sent a huge email about all the shower details to Mal’s bridesmaids. I don’t think they know how to take me. You know me, always organized to the last detail, and while I would loooove it if someone would send me these detailed itemized emails (so there were no questions or debates, just clear cut answers), I don’t think they like them very much. I never get responses. So I just end up doing everything myself. I probably just take event planning a lot more seriously than they do. 

Anyway. I should go get busy on that left over laundry and get some scrapbooking done. Easter stuff later.