Ian's out and I'm home alone with the kids. Ever since being in Ontario, bed time with Spencer has been H, E double-hockey-sticks. He gets out of bed and screams and yells at his door. When you go in to check on him, all he wants is cuddles. Which is really sweet and all, but for his whole life until most recently (returning from our trip to Ontario), he would just get in bed and stay there. Sometimes talk until 9pm, sometimes whine, but never get out of bed and scream at the door. At first we would spend 2hrs following Nanny 9-1-1 advise, and go in and put him back to bed every time he got out. That got tiring and he learned to be quiet and lay on the floor at the door anyway. So now when I go to bed, I go to his room first and put him back in his bed. Going back in the room repeatedly works fine for bed time, but when he was up in the middle of the night, he was worse than ever when we didn't come to him. So that's when we decided to just let him cry it out. He's not playing or anything, just laying there crying. And now when he starts up in the middle of the night, it doesn't last long. If this continues much longer, I may have to try the Nanny 9-1-1 thing again. So frustrating. I know we were lucky before about how good he was going to bed, but not right now!! (Oh, and we tried a playpen, but he's since learned out to get out.)
Ok so I titled this ORGANIZED because I usually consider myself to fit in that description. But I feel myself falling out of it. My scrapbooking supplies are EVERYWHERE. Ok well, they are all in one area of the house, and they are organized - it just doesn't look like it. So that is my task tonight. Get it organized. The next task is to be sure I have what I need for scrapbooking tomorrow, and then to put everything back in it's place in the spare room downstairs. But then when I walk into that room, I realize there is oh-so-much-more to be organized, especially since the in-laws are coming soon. I'm good at making it look good - organized or not - but it's not so much what they think as it is how I feel. I feel like it's not a priority anymore - until I can't find something - then I just get mad at myself for letting it get so bad. Ugh. A vicious cycle I suppose. Funny enough, a friend just asked for help organizing her place to get ready for a move and I'd rather go there and help her than stay here and clean my own mess up! LOL.
And it's not just scrapbooking stuff, it's laundry. Ugh. Laundry. I LOATHE laundry. I will seriously consider a maid when I go back to work. It's clean, it's sorted into piles according to ownership, but it is not put away. I'm also forgetting things. Play dates, appointments, and camp. And not so much that I actually miss them, but that I will have to cancel one thing to do another because I've double-booked myself. I need to get organized.
Part of the problem might be my schedule. Everyone says I'm too busy. I am, and it keeps me sane. CariAnn's been in camp every-other-week this summer, and it's been wonderful having Spencer time. This week we are even in swimming lessons together! But play dates are harder to book and since morning is my most productive time of day - production has slowed. Things get done as they need to be, but it's not as nice around here as I'd like it to be. Next week we have plans to get out and go on some "field trips" to the Zoo and the Corn Maze. Two things we haven't done yet this summer. (So work with me weatherman!)
By the way, the Trade Show on Sunday was great. I didn't sell a single thing, but came home with 35 contacts to follow-up on, and this month we are offering double host rewards! So hopefully I can get some people to commit to some sales and a party. Regardless I thoroughly enjoyed it and have already booked for November!
For now I must go and do that cleaning I've been talking about. Then I need to get ready for Mom's 60th birthday bash on Saturday! FUN! (And TOTALLY looking forward to the family shots JoAnne will be doing for us!)
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