My Mom used to have this shirt when I was younger... It said "A man's work is from sun to sun but a woman's work is never done." It always stuck with me, and today in particular it's ringing quite true.
We're holding out on buying any baby items right now - part of it is we're broke, but I know I could still pick up a few things here and there (especially at garage sales) if needed. Mainly I'm hoping we can get a sex confirm next week and then go with more gender specific stuff. But I do realize 4 months is not a lot of time - especially with all the crap and holidays coming up - so I'm trying to get the house in order.
It's not easy. First of all - my house is a mess. My husband and I? Seriously lack in ANY organization skills. And then my husband is a little bit of a pack rat (though he won't admit it.) It's not as bad as you see on Oprah or one of the hoarders reality TV shows, but it is bad enough to be annoying. We have cords that neither of us have any idea what they go too, he has clothes that he never wears (and I mean, normally I would encourage him to keep those, but the guy? Has SO many clothes.) And then there are things that we'd use if we have the space - like some of his power tools or some fancy cooking stuff he has - but we don't have the space. I don't want him to get rid of those things, but seriously? We have this HUGE breadmaker that we've used once since we've been married - because it just takes up all of our tiny counter. He has one of those really nice kitchenaide mixers - I don't think I've EVER seen him use that. His Mom got him this food processor. And I think if/when we move into a bigger place/house they'll be SUPER nice to have, but I think I've mentioned before our kitchen is the size of a postage stamp - we don't have a place to store them, let alone use them. I've suggested storing them at his parents or my Mom's (both have HUGE basements and told us we can use it as storage any time) but he refuses.
Well, now that we have another person coming into the house I'm not taking no for an answer anymore. I mean we have a hard enough time finding places for just Cayden's toys - now we'll have a new baby which comes with it's own gear. We need the space.
Anyway - I've digressed onto another tangent. Basically, my house is a mess and cleaning it is a huge task, because not only do I feel like I need to do the "normal" choirs - dishes, laundry, vacuuming, ect. but I feel the need to take on these huge organization stuff - like cleaning out closets, Cayden's toy box, going through the dressers and getting rid of clothes we don't wear/can't fix/are torn/stained, ect (which - I did that today, and can I just mention another pet peeve of my husbands is when he folds clothes, he doesn't turn them right side out. I had to refold a ton of stuff that was inside out. Really honey??) I feel like I'm constantly doing it - except now of course, where I'm being lazy and sitting on my butt online. It's hard too, because as I'm sure some of you other Mom's now, cleaning with a two year old? Impossible. I had a bag of trash on the floor yesterday, and he went through it, pulling everything out, and the same with the trash can.
That was a very long winded way to say that I'm tired, lol.
The good news is - whatever Cayden's issue was, it seems to be resolved *knock on wood* Last night he was up his normal one time - and slept to a normal hour this morning. I think it'll take me a few days to catch up on my sleep, but I'm just glad things are back to normal, for now at least.
I also finished cleaning/rearranging his room and for the most part decorating it. There's a few things we need to do in there - add Baby No-name's decorations and I'd like to finally complete the border and re-organize the closet and stuff. But it feels good to check off one thing off my list.
Alright, now I'm off to clean the living room which my son will just "re-decorate" once he's up from his nap.
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