Wonderful, organized, put-together, brilliant ME

Okay, maybe not..... I have shared my struggles with you as far as my lack of organizing/motivation goes. Since the move into the new house, things are still not quite unpacked completely with everything all neat and tidy. Baby Girl's room is a catch-all right now. Hopefully, it will be nice and decorated before her arrival in October. If not, well, she'll be in our room for a while anyway, ha. :-)

Oh, and that wonderful scheduling book I ordered? I can't find it......

Hubby laughed unmercifully when I told him that. I was in the middle of a hormone-induced blubbering session fit of tears when he decided to laugh at me. It could have made it worse, but it made me laugh too, so all is well!

The rain stopped!

Hey guys! The rain finally stopped last Friday. When the waters subsided, I found several boxes that had been outside were soaked through. (I almost lost my entire box of maternity clothes, oh no!) A box of boys clothes, another one of papers, and some toys were all soaked. Things had started to mildew, but I caught it just in time! The clothes all washed out clean and the toys scrubbed up fine. Anyway, we rushed to go get a storage unit, since it doesn't look like the landlord will be fulfilling that storage building promise anytime soon. It's amazing what my hubby can pack into a 5x5 climate controlled unit. :-) We then spent the rest of the weekend organizing the ouside and cleaning up the yard from all the rain. We had to drain the blowup pool and put in chlorine tablets to get rid of the green "stuff". Bleh. Some things were drenched that MUST have been hit by sideways rainfall. There is no other explanation! So, needless to say, I am tired! Worn out! We worked hard for three days getting it all cleaned back up. I am sure our neighbors are happy to see the stuff go however, hehe. I am looking forward to getting the inside done now. then maybe we can finally invite some people over......
More soon! (rain, that is. It starts again tomorrow.....)

Out of the Mouths of Babes

So...lately I have been having a hard time getting motivated & organized. Yes, believe it or not, people, I have lost my touch!

Once upon a time, Dan and I moved with a tidy little U-Haul, loaded down with 78 boxes neatly
labeled "Fragile" and well-placed. I also had a notebook to go along with the numbered boxes, with descriptions of what was in each box.
Sigh.... such moves are a thing of the past, my friends. These last few trips have been "sling it somewhere" and "pray it doesn't break" moves! Not only have we lost interest in keeping so many keepsakes, we forgot why we were keeping them in the first place. So, needless to say, there is an embarrassing amount of boxes and items still carelessly strewn about under our gigantic carport. But, with the Texas-sized storms we have been getting, everything is getting soaked. The rain literally falls sideways under the carport roof. I have been trying to get things unpacked and placed somewhere inside. But, this has been a painfully slow and tedious process. All of this has not gone unnoticed to my four-year old, however. Little ears have been listening as I moan to Daddy about my needing a schedule and a routine. This morning, he brought me a carefully drawn out itinerary for my days!
"Here is your new schedule, Mommy!," he explained.
He had an activity I should do at 1, 2, 3, and 4 o'clock. I don't know what I am suposed to do before that, though, ha. It looks something like this....





Now, why didn't I think of that?!?!?!
:-)

Ah, the joys of unpacking....

Today my MIL came over to help me get motivated with the unpacking. Well, we decided to help motivate each other, actually. I plan to go help her clean out some rooms next week in return. We got about 9 boxes unpacked, which is a BIG deal around here! We still have so much stuff under the carport that needs to be sorted through. Whose idea was it anyway to move from a 2100 sq. ft. house into a 1000 sq. ft. house????? We have this teeny tiny attic access, that you have to climb through the boys' closet to get to. Most of my large totes won't fit in the space , so they have been living outside since we got here. They haven't complained much :-) but I am worried about my old yearbooks, etc. being in the heat and humidity. Not to mention all the "ordnance accessories" we confiscated from the USMC. Just kidding, sort of.
Anyway, sufficient progress was made in the kitchen. Enough that we finally had our first meal in the kitchen, at the table! More to do tomorrow!
have a good night.