Warning: This is completely rambling and random. I vomited it out in an attempt to calm myself down. Proceed with caution and lack of judgment please. :-)
I woke up this morning with a mild sense of panic and unease. The reason for this is simple: the month of May is going to be crazy busy for us. Along with the regular busy-ness of May (weddings, graduations, Mother's Day etc.) we are completing loan documents, moving, and preparing to go on vacation. I also made the mistake of committing to helping with a communal garden.
I have been trying so hard the past few months to be more organized and scheduled. I have done well with budgeting and keeping our grocery costs low. I have been making a lot of home made food in order to be more healthy. I have been trying to involve the kids in more creative play and activities. But honestly, all of that does take time, energy, and planning.
I realized this morning that in order to make it through the next few weeks we are just going to have to take some shortcuts.
- Nathaniel gets to keep his "ba" (pacifier). There is no way I am going to try and wean him off that thing with all of this going on. He is completely attached to it and even comes and asks me for it holding up his hands and saying in a pitiful voice, "need ba!"
- We have been doing good at scaling back the TV watching. Until this morning when I had to email a scanned 30+ page document - one.page.at.a.time. The boys sat in front of PBS kids for a good hour and a half. They seem ok. It may be they put in some more than usual hours in front on the 1 eyed babysitter in the next few weeks.
- Our cupboards are bare. I have not had a spare minute to do my usual online sales search or menu plan. (Of course I could be doing that instead of blogging!) The only time I see being able to go to the store is tonight after the boys are in bed. So what to have for dinner? I see a few extra nights of $5.00 pizza in our future the next few weeks. I think that we will also be having more packaged snacks and meals.
- Cleanliness. Oh my. You should see the state of our house. Packing with 2 curious boys is a lesson in patience. As soon as I pack a box it gets unpacked by a curious boy who wants to know what is inside and wants to play in the box. As I try and get the extra stuff done I am neglecting making beds, folding laundry (just pull it out of the basket of clean clothes!), and dusting. I figure over the next few weeks I am doing good to keep the dishes washed and laundry done.
The one area that we cannot short cut is that of patience and grace. Aaron and I have promised to treat each other (and the boys) with extra measures of both in these next few weeks. Things are going to be crazy. Things are not going to get done the way we are used to. But if we can reach the end of the month having loved each other well then all will be fine, despite the extra TV and food with partially hydrogenated oils. :-)
I woke up this morning with a mild sense of panic and unease. The reason for this is simple: the month of May is going to be crazy busy for us. Along with the regular busy-ness of May (weddings, graduations, Mother's Day etc.) we are completing loan documents, moving, and preparing to go on vacation. I also made the mistake of committing to helping with a communal garden.
I have been trying so hard the past few months to be more organized and scheduled. I have done well with budgeting and keeping our grocery costs low. I have been making a lot of home made food in order to be more healthy. I have been trying to involve the kids in more creative play and activities. But honestly, all of that does take time, energy, and planning.
I realized this morning that in order to make it through the next few weeks we are just going to have to take some shortcuts.
- Nathaniel gets to keep his "ba" (pacifier). There is no way I am going to try and wean him off that thing with all of this going on. He is completely attached to it and even comes and asks me for it holding up his hands and saying in a pitiful voice, "need ba!"
- We have been doing good at scaling back the TV watching. Until this morning when I had to email a scanned 30+ page document - one.page.at.a.time. The boys sat in front of PBS kids for a good hour and a half. They seem ok. It may be they put in some more than usual hours in front on the 1 eyed babysitter in the next few weeks.
- Our cupboards are bare. I have not had a spare minute to do my usual online sales search or menu plan. (Of course I could be doing that instead of blogging!) The only time I see being able to go to the store is tonight after the boys are in bed. So what to have for dinner? I see a few extra nights of $5.00 pizza in our future the next few weeks. I think that we will also be having more packaged snacks and meals.
- Cleanliness. Oh my. You should see the state of our house. Packing with 2 curious boys is a lesson in patience. As soon as I pack a box it gets unpacked by a curious boy who wants to know what is inside and wants to play in the box. As I try and get the extra stuff done I am neglecting making beds, folding laundry (just pull it out of the basket of clean clothes!), and dusting. I figure over the next few weeks I am doing good to keep the dishes washed and laundry done.
The one area that we cannot short cut is that of patience and grace. Aaron and I have promised to treat each other (and the boys) with extra measures of both in these next few weeks. Things are going to be crazy. Things are not going to get done the way we are used to. But if we can reach the end of the month having loved each other well then all will be fine, despite the extra TV and food with partially hydrogenated oils. :-)
2 comments:
Ok, there were only 2 of us when we moved, but we still lived off of fast food for about a month and a half after. The dollar menu was our dear friend!
Good call on the ba, too. Maybe sometime after you guys get all settled in and settled down. Pacifiers are not the devil, and I have no idea how we will ever break Jude of one because he will not fall asleep without it.
We'll be praying for you guys and if we can help with moving before or after the big weekend, please let me know. Or if you want to borrow the van for a while, too.
I reconize this too! We have been living out of boxes and bags for the last couple of weeks. It's been crazy! And we don't even have kids yet ;-)
Just one more week and we will actualy start building and moving. I haven't even had any time or energie to blog anymore!
Good luck with all the preperations, I know you will be needing it ;-)
Grtz Y.
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