{making progress}

First of all, yesterday was SO GREAT! I got to meet my friend Amanda for a quick dessert on her way through town, and then met up with Stef for supper. A little time away sure is good for a Momma! Old friends are the BEST! Last week, my friend Jen took me out for supper for my birthday. Life is so good! :)

Mark is off today and we went to the doctor. No new news, so that's good. Our due date is still June 10th and just in case you didn't hear...... It's a GIRL!

As far as getting things crossed off that dang list, this week was another rare one (I should just STOP PLANNING.....), but I've learned some things that I think will help with my "have to get everything done RIGHT.NOW. anxiety". Mark ended up getting the flu Saturday night and was sick all the way until Monday morning, and Kolbe still wasn't feeling too great, either. So there was no great "football food" at our house on Sunday night. :( I felt a little under the weather, but thanks to the Zofran I never got sick. I may ask if I can get a few refills for that for when I'm not pregnant. I hate getting sick and that stuff works like a charm! So with the boys both being sick, I felt like all I was doing was scrubbing everything with Clorox and doing laundry, but that's life. I did accomplish a few things that I planned on.

• I finally put some books on the bookshelf upstairs....and in turn got rid of one more box out of the garage. One down....twenty something to go!
• I finished painting my cupboard chalkboard. I'm not crazy about the color. I used what I bought to paint the shelves that are going into the laundry room. I though maybe I would incorporate that color into the kitchen somehow, but I just don't have the energy to redecorate, and I kind of like the red/orange/yellow/green look I've got going on in there. So everything in the turquoise color that I decided to paint last week will go in the laundry room. It could use some cheering up!

My husband is so smart....have I mentioned that? He's so level-headed and is so good for my impatient, anxious spirit. We were discussing my daily struggle to get everything done while Kolbe naps (more on sleeping in a bit) and he pointed out that I might be a little bit unrealistic when setting my goals for that day. So I went with it, and have a different outlook on things....and I feel better. I'm no longer trying to clean each day, I'm taking one hour each weekend to whip through this house and get it clean. It's attainable if Mark and Kolbe keep each other occupied, which I think it is important that they have some alone time, too. Little boys need that quality time with their daddies. :) So really, my goal for each day is to do one load of laundry...wash, dry, fold, put away. THEN I can have time to do the things I love, that make me happy, that keep me sane. Like, doing ONE of my million projects I have floating around in my head, or painting an old cupboard door into a chalk board, or stalking blogs, or reading a magazine. My good friend Stef really hit the nail on the head when she said, when you're a mom, you're working the whole day that your kids are awake (so say 12 hours) and it's ok to take a one hour break. Again, I ran with it. :) I feel less crabby. I feel like I spend more time playing with Kolbe knowing that he'll take a nap and I'll get my break. So there...this list maker is toning it down a bit. I know some of you are saying "I told you so!" It's ok. You were right. :)

We are sleep #2 of letting Kolbe cry it out. Last night I think he ended up out of his bed 3 times, and cried for more of the night than he slept, but we didn't sleep in his bed, and he didn't sleep in ours. Broke my heart, but this Momma needs some sleep! Today he went to sleep crying for his nap, but now he's out....and isn't he sooo precious??

Tomorrow we are headed to Wayne America (my old college stomping grounds!) to meet up with my sister Kelsie and her kids to cheer on her husband's basketball team. I told Mark I want to leave at the crack of dawn so we have the whole day to hang out. He's skeptical that we'll be able to find things to keep us busy in Wayne..... I'm not worried one bit. :) We're eating at the Max for lunch and I hope to be able to swing by The Coffee Shop for a treat and to look at their crafts.

This week I'm hoping Mark will have time to hang the shelves in the laundry room so I can organize that mess, and maybe if I'm real lucky, the one in the craft room, too. Other than that, I'm not planning what I'm going to cross off. This type A girl is going to roll with the punches. :)

Happy Weekend to you all.....Come back next week to see more things "crossed off". :)

I'll leave you with one last picture of Momma's helper cleaning his toys....