I really don’t feel like accomplishing anything today, to tell you all the truth. This last little while, I’ve been super motivated and just ready to get this place in order. Today, not so much. So instead of being too choked about it, I decided to roll with it and take the day. For the most part, anyway.
After being completely thrilled with how clean my dishwasher got yesterday, I got back in the groove of life and loaded it all back up with yesterdays dishes. The kids were so cute at breakfast! Laela insisted on wearing a hairband and Dekker pulled a chair as close to her high chair as he could at the small end of the table so they could be closer. He complimented her constantly, telling her over and over how beautiful she was and how pretty she looked.
I joined them at the table for the tail end of their breakfast, and we eventually all finished up and headed down for toys. Well, Dekker did. Laela wanted to doddle a bit upstairs so she hung out with me while I tidied up from breakfast and wiped everything down. I really do have a desire to keep everything in better shape than we have in the past, and that includes crumb-free counters. They are not always clean at all, but sometimes, it just feels better!
We did join Dekker downstairs right away after that, and kept it all pretty low key for the next couple of hours. The kids are learning to play together, which is sometimes smooth and sometimes not, so I feel like I’m up and down a lot, dealing with their little squabbles and the whole learning curve. So often, Dekker is short with Laela when she nears him, out of fear that she’ll take his toys. But then occasionally, Laela’s colors come through and she’ll rip of Dekker’s glasses and he’ll burst out crying and my goodness, it seems to never stop! So I mediate as much as I can, and otherwise, I just let them hash it out. We all had a bit of lunch downstairs before nap time.
The kids went down for their naps surprisingly well, and they have been quiet for two hours. I have taken their downtime as my own as well. I’ve watched a few episodes of Friends while I’ve had a bit of a snack and just rested my body. I think I’ll do a little bit of laundry this evening. Not much, but we’re accumulating enough that I’d rather do a load here and there instead of saving it all for a big laundry day and then going into labour and not being able to do it before I go. That was a really bad sentence. Hopefully it made sense, because I don’t care enough to change it. Either way, I don’t want to bring dirty clothes to the hospital with me, so laundry must happen. Maybe just a load or two tonight though. Also, the curtains aren’t up yet in our living and dining rooms yet, so I could wash those, but I’d rather wait until I know the curtain rods are going up the same day so nothing has to get folded and wrinkled. But I’m not sure today is curtain rod day. Today will hopefully be microwave day, though!! We got a new over the range microwave, but since we bought it second hand and didn’t think to check, the mounting plate is different than our current one :/ But Brady was able to pick one up yesterday, so that enormous microwave can finally be on the wall and off of our countertop! I’ll never appreciate counter space more than I will after this blasted appliance isn’t taking any more of it up! Woohoo!
So I suppose chores aren’t entirely lame. Maybe they’re just lame when you’re on your own doing them. I don’t know. Anyway, its been a really low key day, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. Tomorrow is also pretty chill, except for a doctors appointment in the middle of it, and Friday will be fun and full and I’m SO looking forward to it! I’m hoping I’m on the ball enough to even make it into a photo post!!!