I am sooo disorganized!
We had a rocky morning before Brady went to work, and I felt like my whole day was put off. I was super grumpy. However, we all recovered and had a decent day. Dekker is so energetic once his patching hour is over, and he’ll do laps around the basement, say tons of words, blow kisses at Laela, and pretend. Laela was my smiley princess today. I think she can see further now, and it seems that as soon as she can focus on someone, a smile isn’t far away. She is sooo pretty!
We spent our day playing toys downstairs, eating Christmas oranges for snacks, and napping. When Dekker napped, I tried to get Laela to dose off in her U-pillow, but no dice. Not that she was a handful really at all. We caught up on my YouTube videos together before going downstairs and testing out my Just Dance Wii game. Fact: I am a terrible dancer. But she was entertained anyway. Brady brought me an Earl Grey double double from Tim’s, and we had comfort food for supper. I felt a bit better until I realized how slammed my next few days are going to be. Those of you who lead super busy lives probably think my “crazy busy week” is relaxed, but I don’t do busy very well at all. I feel wildly disorganized already.
Tomorrow is my day to figure stuff out. I need to make some serious lists, for starters. Does anyone else have that problem with making lists where it gets messy and they have to rewrite it? If I mess up one line, I have to rewrite the whole stinking thing! So I’m thinking I’ll be that person who types it all out. We’ve been so busy the last couple of weeks that a lot of things have fallen by the wayside for too long. Time to get them fixed up. So I need to make a really detailed list of where we need to go and what we need to get. Also tomorrow, I have to write out the thank you cards, at least for the hospital staff that we want to thank. I know, I said a while ago that I had written a bunch out. Thats another “issue” of mine. If you haven’t noticed by my writing on this blog, I write as I talk. Kind of strange and garbly. And I make up words, I guess. I want my cards to truly convey what I’m thankful for, and I don’t want them to sound jumbled. So I actually wrote out what I want to say in a notebook and I still have to transfer them to the cards. Is that overkill? Whether it is or not, thats the case, and I need to get started on some of the writing. Thats tomorrow.
Wednesday is my doctors appointment. Laela is officially six weeks old today!!! So she and I have our six week check up soon. I’m a little nervous about the appointment, to be honest. I’m not loving my mental/emotional state right now and while I know my doctor has always been supportive and understanding of me, its a somewhat scary thing to admit and talk about in detail. She’s wonderful though, and will get me the help I’m pretty confident I need. I love her. After our appointment, we have to get started on my list! Its one of those lists that has us going to like ten different places for one thing at each place. Not my favorite kind of errand day but it’s gotta be done! And knowing how long my lists can and will get, we will be in the city again on Thursday, finishing it up.
Somewhere in the next few days, we also need to clean up the kitchen and dining area of our house. With my siblings out visiting this weekend, we’ve spent almost all of our time at my parents with them, so our breakfast and evening snack dishes are just piled high. The dining table is a huge mess, and the floor hasn’t been swept in forever. And let me tell you, toddlers and toast make a HUGE mess together. We need to pull the house together before I lose it.
Lets not forget our Christmas lights! We have white lights on our house all year round, and we love it! However, when we put them up a year or two back, we had never done it before, and didn’t do it quite right. We didn’t put up one of those clips at every light at all. More just every ten lights maybe? Needless to say, the wind has taken a bunch of them down. Not to mention, one of the strands came unhooked several months back so we’ve had no lights for quite some time. It didn’t matter when it was bright outside late into the evening, but now, we arrive home at 5:30 to a pitch black house. Not our favorite. So Brady wants to “quickly redo the lights.” Because that kind of thing happens quickly. *sigh*
I know there isn’t a legitimate reason to put a rush on these things, but I’ll go nuts if we don’t at least tidy up the house, and I know that if we don’t do the lights soon, they won’t get done. Now, with just this little amount of show, is the best time.
Writing this is making me anxious. Time for my evening list. Bath. Snack. Netflix. Pee. Sleep. Feed the baby. Put her down. Put her down again. And again. Sleep.