Halfway There....

I'm happy to report that things are going much better at our house! I finally feel that I have the two kid thing kind of under control (at least enough to keep everyone safe and mostly happy!). It's not easy. I have to sacrifice so much of my personal time in order to maintain some kind of order and cleanliness around the house and it's always a struggle between work or reading "one more story!" I've come to realize though that between lack of time and complete mommy brain I leave a lot of things half done!

Come to my house and you'll see so many things that I've tried to start but got interrupted by a waking baby or hungry toddler. Usually I only have two or three days a week at home with them so really tackling a project is near impossible. The bathroom has three out of four walls without wallpaper. Started that project one morning when getting out of the shower and seeing the wallpaper peeling off the wall, probably a month or two ago. Had a great hour a few weeks ago when I got to work soaking the walls with remover and got three of them almost completely stripped. Poor wall number four though is just hanging out still waiting for another day when both kids sleep at the same time (which rarely happens)....maybe next month.... I keep hoping the wallpaper genie will just come do it for me and one morning I'll wake up to a new bathroom!

Generally the house gets vacuumed in two or three parts. Some days just the living room rug, some days the whole downstairs. Never both the upstairs and downstairs together (how wonderful would it be to have a maid?!). Sometimes I can't get it together to get both litter boxes cleaned on the same day (sorry kitties!). Usually I have time to take a shower but never to dry my hair. I get the dishwasher unloaded but the dirty dishes still sit on the counter when Alex gets home at the end of the day. There's almost always a pile of clean laundry waiting to get put away at the end of the bed, which usually only gets put away because I need the basket to start a new load.

So today's project....gardening! Last week I started to pull weeds and move some plants around next to our house. Half done of course because Emma didn't want to stay outside anymore so we went in. Today I moved another plant around to the other side of the house and one more to the backyard. Just as I was filling the dirt around one plant Aiden started crying from the bumbo seat and Emma needed her shoes put back on. I shoved some dirt around the poor plant and we went inside. It started raining and now I've realized I left a huge hole where the plants used to be planted! Oh well! Maybe next week I'll fill it in!

It's a wonder my children are fully clothed everyday....!