I'm Out of Time!

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I had such an ambitious To Do list written out for my time at home. I was going to finish my son's baby book and I was going to work on various projects. The only thing I was successful at working on was my writing. Other than that I spent my time playing a game, taking care of the kids, and logging on to work at least once a day. Just those things alone took up the whole day. Although I didn't plan on working while being out sick I was inevitably called at least once a day by my assistant. That took up time too.

Here I am at the tail end of my sick leave. I can drive now, although very limited. I've only done it once and to the store. Now that school is starting in one week exactly I have a few errands I need to run. I need to get school uniforms tomorrow. I need to register the kids for the After School program. Dance and Sports for my daughter again and Sports for my son. I'm thinking of adding a second activity to his schedule but I haven't decided what yet.

These last four days are going to just FLY by! I know they are. At this point I can only try to get the most important things done. We have Ice Cream Socials at the kids' school and they get to meet their teachers, Tuesday for one and Thursday for the other.

My cousin also has a reading Tuesday night at Brazos Bookstore. I'm going to try to swing both the school thing and the reading if I can. I may get to the reading late, but I want to show up for moral support.

Busy week ahead! And then there's my follow up doctor's appointment on Thursday so that I can go back to work on Friday. Fun!

I'm going to miss being a stay at home mom! Other than the housework, I think I'd be really good at it. In between everything else I also need to get my laundry done. It's amazing how much can pile up when you're limited on what you can do.

Back to work, back to reality! Just the thought of it is too much!! Calgon take me away, already!

Oh! And I'm already having crazy nightmares about the whole start of school thing!

A Domestic Day at Home

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I have done something every single weekend for the past 4 weekends. Wedding, Visitors, New Orleans trip, Assembly (religious meeting), and every activity that goes with those events. I even took the kids to Discovery Green on Memorial Day.

So this is the first Saturday to just stay home and take care of house things.

At first I was thinking of the kids and doing something with them because we are going to see Oscar De La Hoya tomorrow and we are leaving them at home. I felt like we should do something with them today in exchange.

But then I thought, "Why do they have to do something every weekend?" They really don't.

I think that as parents, especially working ones, sometimes we feel obligated to entertain or kids every weekend. But we don't have to. Think about when we were kids. Our parents didn't take us somewhere every weekend. We definitely didn't go out to dinner as much as we do in our day.

Even last weekend. On Sunday we had a nice dinner after our meeting and then we met our friends for ice cream. Later we went grocery shopping as a family and I went running. (I forgot to blog about running. I was thinking of doing that the day I went running) We had a nice day.

So you see, any time we spend with our kids is good. Like right now, they are watching cartoons and my husband is dozing on the couch. In a little while I'm going to turn off the TV, so they can play and use their imaginations.

I am going to start on the huge mountainous task of folding clothes, putting up clothes, sorting dirty clothes, etc. etc... It's scary even thinking of everything that I have to do, but it has to get done. I'm even defrosting some meat to make with tomato sauce and wheat fettuccine for dinner. (we're trying wheat pasta for a healthy change)

I am not the domestic Goddess that I wish I was, but today I will have to try.

That Overwhelmed Feeling

When I look at each room in my house the overwhelming feeling of not knowing where to start is enough to make me want to run and hide... or run and blog.

I've been working on cleaning my house since around 1 p.m. and it is now 8:30 p.m. Folding my kids clothes alone took me close to 2 hours. I know because I watched a whole movie in that time. I stopped in between and wrote a blog entry here. I've also had to stop to make lunch and dinner, but I've pretty much kept it up all afternoon and evening. I just finished the dishes, but I have to go back and finish the silverware.

I really miss my cleaning lady! But that's the price you pay when you're in sales and you're paid monthly bonuses. On those months that you don't get a bonus you have to do without the "wants" and you have to focus on the "needs." I'm there this month. Thank goodness I also have a salary and I don't work on 100% commission.

I hate that overwhelmed feeling and when I get it I think that the money I pay someone to help me out once a week is well worth it.

My son just took an old cereal box and turned it upside down and poured out the last few crumbs on the floor. Argghhhh!!! I'm about to lose it! Excuse me while I go pour myself a drink!

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