Sunday 2/28

I have no comment about my day. My whole body is a mass of pain and not only did I have to work on the floor but I also had to work at the Y doing a birthday party. I'm very hopeful that after buying another bundle of wood we will be finished!

Saturday 2/27

I realized today that Monkey-3 will be turning 4 in exactly 28 days! How did that happen?

My Saturday was spent working on the hardwood floor and going to a friend's baby shower. Sounds way more exciting than it was. Well the baby shower is exciting. It is always exciting to celebrate impending arrivals of new additions to our friends' families!

The floor. Well it is getting there, but at the same time it is taking us a little longer than we thought. I'm very hopeful that we will be able to get the rest of it done tomorrow without too many problems.

Friday 2/26

A few things I forgot from yesterday: cleaned out the fridge freezer.

Guess it was only one thing, because I forgot again!

Today is a wonderful Friday. We are renting the hardwood floor nailer this evening for the weekend and I'm excited and hope to make some progress. I'm very hopeful that my Sunday evening the floor will be in and we can start working on getting everything ready for sanding next weekend!

• SuperTarget shopping done and put away
• light laundry ~ washed, dried, waiting to be folded and put away
• little Monkeys taken to school and brought home again
• Farmville farming done

Hope your Friday is productive and full of fun!

Thursday 2/25

I should be very excited because I got a bonus nap from Monkey-2, but for some reason I was kinda hoping he would be up so that I could put the clothes away. But I guess he needed more sleep. I think he has a cold and it is making him extra sleeping.

Another exciting Thursday.

• cleaned up and vacuumed the basement
• did Sam's shopping
• broke up hamburger, pork chops, and cheddar cheese into smaller packages and put in the deep freeze
• filling the dishwasher
• dark laundry ~ washed, drying (got a late start because of leaving the house to go to Sam's)
• white laundry ~ folded and waiting to be put away when the little Monkeys wake up
• water
• teeth brushed

Another day down and hopefully some more of the floor will be put in while I'm off at work tonight. But I'm sure it will have to be done tomorrow and over the weekend. I'm excited to get it in so I can at least see it there. Then the fun begins, sanding and a HUGE mess. Oh dear.

Wednesday 2/24

Happy Hump Day! Hope this Wednesday is treating you well.

• white laundry ~ washed, dried, crying in the basket because it wants me to fold it and I'm currently drowning it out with the USA-Switzerland Hockey game!
• dishwasher ~ filled, washed, waiting patiently to be emptied before dinner
• kitchen ~ cleaned, floor mopped
• took and picked up the little Monkeys from school
• showered, blow dried, and got out the door in less than 30 minutes today ~ this is some kind of record for me.
• Went to SuperTarget to get Lunchables for the little Monkeys and one for the big Monkey for his lunch tomorrow.
• Made the dinner menu for the next month (yes, I menu plan for a month at a time)
• created a Sam's shopping list and a SuperTarget shopping list.
  

This turned out to be a pretty slow day. Although it took me a lot longer to create the dinner menu that I thought. That is what I get for making it using the computer!

Tuesday 2/23

The excitement of another Tuesday in Kansas! I know everyone wishes they were here! But the happy news is that the sun is shining! YEAH for the sun!

• light laundry ~ washed, dried, folded, put away
• dishwasher ~ emptied, refilled
• kids rooms ~ picked up, vacuumed
• Living room ~ um, still there! Nothing much I can do, I vacuumed a little to avoid nails and staples, but can't do much since the carpet is cut into pieces and there isn't much else that I can do until the floor is put in.
• swept the kitchen floor and vacuumed up the swept up stuff!
• water, water
• teeth brushed
• neighbor kids watched and safely returned to their mommy

I've agreed to work at the Y this evening, so I'll miss another evening with my family. I really am kinda wishing I would have said no, but it is too late now. RS was going to go and try to buy the few pieces we need for the hallway tonight after work, but now he can't. So I have no excuse for having to live in the mess other than my own inability to say no!

Monday 2/22

Ah, Monday. Welcome back! I actually missed you, but not as much as you might think!

• Monkeys off to school, little Monkeys returned home
  
• picked up photo props for newborn session with adorable twins soon
• cleaned all three bathrooms
• dark laundry ~ washed, dried, sitting in a basket waiting to be folded and put away
• towels ~ washed, drying
• friendship bread ~ two loaves baked, 2 in the oven baking (made 2 for the neighbor who had surgery last week)
• dishwasher ~ emptied, refilled, washed, waiting to be emptied and filled again

While Monday shouldn't be this busy. Today it is. Oh well. Hope your Monday is peaceful and happy!

4:42 pm Update:

• dark laundry ~ folded and put away
• towels ~ folded and put away

I just found out it is National Margarita Day! Get out there and party folks! House work can wait!

Sunday 2/21

Due to my lack of sleep last night due to coughing which didn't want to stop no matter what I did, today's activities were minimal.

On a happy note, one of my dear, dear friends had twin boys this morning! I'm so very excited for her and her fiance. I wish them all the happiness with their two new little bundles of joy! I can't wait to meet them soon.

Now on to what I did get done:

• Gave RS, Monkey-1 and Monkey-2 hair cuts this morning
• drove to Harbor Freight with RS and Monkeys for a new tool thing to help with the floor remodel
• drove back to Harbor Freight to pick up one lost stuffed snowball from the store that was left there by Monkey-3
• pulled up carpet and the stables that were holding the pad down from the living room and hallway floor with help from the Monkeys and RS
• Rearranged some furniture to make it easier to install the flooring this week
• Bought milk (very, very important in our home), thought again about trying to buy a skim milk cow, but don't have a home for said nonexistent cow.
• Prayed for friend's babies who are in the NICU, but doing well. May you all be blessed with the Lord's hand on you as they continue to grow outside the womb.

I think that was about it. Despite being tired, I seemed to have gotten some stuff done. Shocking!

Saturday 2/20

First of all.

Starting weight : 202 pounds
Today's weight: 194.0 pounds

Today's activities:

• Gave away the living room couch (getting new furniture once the new floor is in)
• vacuumed the living room
• went to the far side of town with RS and monkeys
• trying to understand curling. so far this is not looking very good.
  

I still need to empty and refill the dishwasher, but I have been doing other things instead. I also need to post some things of my family blog, but I'm not sure that will get done.

Friday 2/19

Ah, Friday. I so love when you come to visit.

• Got the Monkeys off to school. Monkey-1 with grass hut project, Monkey-2 and 3 in their jammies.
• dishwasher ~ emptied, refilled, washed, ready to be emptied again
• light laundry ~ washed, dried
• checking account updated, new online password created (our old one expired tomorrow!)
• deviled eggs made, trying to not eat them all, have to share
• walked around the block, jogged part of the way on the second lap (my slow re-intro to exercise)
  

Friday seems a little slow to me. Not sure why. I'm sure I did something interesting today. Maybe it is because one of my dear friends is trying to keep her twin boys cooking and I'm too busy worrying for and about her!

Wednesday and Thursday 2/17 and 2/18

Wednesday, Wednesday where did you go? Sorry, got a little crazy busy yesterday and never got to post.

• whites ~ washed, dried, folded, put away
• dishwasher ~ filled, washed, emptied, refilled
• Sheets ~ found in the dryer, folded, put away
• kitchen ~ cleaned, floor mopped
• playdough made for Monkey-1's school project
• Bunco scorecards printed and cut apart
• water
• teeth brushed
• Bunco played and won!
  
• family fed

On to Thursday.

• dark laundry ~ washed, dried, in a basket
• dishes ~ washed
• basement ~ cleaned, vacuumed
• grass for grass hut bundled ready for RS and Monkey-1 to glue together this evening
  
• vacuumed living room after opening hide-a-bed that hasn't been used in........a long time.
• ready for work at the Y
• brush teeth

I know there is more but at this moment I'm too frustrated that my Monkeys can't clean up their own messes!

Tuesday 2/16

Ah, Tuesday! Who knew you were so wonderful! The boy Monkeys returned to school today! YEAH! 4 days off is getting to be too much for me. I think it was the fighting that was actually getting to me. Plus it is hard to clean the house when the Monkeys destroy my hard work before it is even done! So glad to get some stuff done today!

• Monkeys rooms ~ cleaned, vacuumed
• RS and my room ~ vacuumed
• Living room ~ Um, well, I kinda vacuumed, but um, well...Hold on I'll explain in a minute.
• sheets ~ taken off of all 4 beds (5 if you would like to believe that RS and I have two twin beds ala Lucy and Ricky), new sheets put on, old sheets washed and drying.
• light laundry ~ washed, dried, folded, and waiting for nap to be finished to be put away in the kids rooms
• dishwasher ~ emptied
• teeth brushed
• Mount Dresser ~ On hold since clothes are lying on my bed. Hopefully will be a post-nap project today

So what is the deal with my living room? Years ago RS and I picked out every little thing for our home. We moved in and already loved the place, but soon, oh so soon, we started hating, no, abhorring the carpet. It was horrible. Gross no matter that no one wore shoes on it. It was just yucky! So we have been talking for the last few years that for our 10th wedding anniversary we are going to extend the hardwood floors that are in our kitchen into the living room and down the hallway. Now you are probably asking yourself what this had to do with anything....well, our 10th anniversary is fast approaching (only 43 more days) and we have our tax refund, so....we did a little hardwood shopping.

Thus leading us to have to wait for the wood to acclimate to our home before we can install the new floor. Well we thought about dragging the wood down the stairs. That didn't happen. We simply pulled up the carpet and put the wood in the living room and rolled the carpet back over the pile. Seriously! The only reason we put the carpet over it was to try to hide it from the chewing dog. She likes to chew on wood. So my living room got smaller and the wood is acclimating as we speak! We are aiming for putting it down in about 2 weeks. I'm hoping to spend part of the upcoming weekend pulling the tack strip up from the living room and hallway!

Things to look forward to in our home!

Monday 2/15

Ah, Monday! Welcome back to reality and trying to get back on track. Or at least to try.

• Dark laundry ~ washed and dried
• Towels ~ washed, drying
• bath mats ~ lying in a pile in the middle of my hallway (oh dear, this isn't good)
• bathrooms ~ cleaned
• dishwasher ~ emptied by the Monkeys, refilled by me, probably ready to wash
• Kids Book Group conquered (meaning we came, we saw, we participated, we ate, we came back home)
• water

You'll note a few thing missing from my list. Like, say, brushing my teeth. Apparently, I missed that this morning. I so have to get back on routine. Still no exercising yet today. I'm trying to decide if I just want to stay late at the Y after working, but I'm pretty sure that won't happen since there is a KU basketball game this evening. I'll at least do Yoga tonight. Probably at half time. I hope the second half isn't stressful.

Update 3:10 PM:

• Dark laundry ~ washed, dried, folded, put away
• Towels ~ washed, dried, folded, put away
• Bathmats ~ washed, drying
• Side project of the day ~ Clean my side of the bed ~ Done
  
• Side project two ~ clean off Mount Dresser ~ Taunting me from across the room
• dishwasher ~ washed (in the air dry cycle)
• Monkey's living in fear of the Rocket Scientist arrive home from work are cleaning the basement (I'm so evil)
• water

Ah, accomplishments. I love them so. Off to tackle Mount Dresser!

Update 9:42 PM

• bathmats ~ washed, dried, being put away by RS
• dishwasher ~ washed, emptied by the Monkeys again, refilled
• Helped the Monkey's clean their basement disaster before RS came home
• worked 3 hours at the Y
• Mount Dresser ~ Still staring at me, taunting me, giggling that I had to help the Monkey's and it avoided the cleaning fate it deserves
• watching basketball
• planning to brush my teeth and hit the hay after the basketball game.

You might notice that Yoga is not listed, well, you see, when I got home from work it was already almost half time and I was eating dinner. So it didn't happen. I'm hoping that tomorrow will be better and I'll be able to exercise in the morning and get back on track. Or maybe I'll be able to take a walk tomorrow afternoon. Come one warmer weather!!

Where am I?

Lost, completely and totally lost. I'll be back on Monday though. I'm keeping busy, promise, but just falling off the wagon.

Things to look forward to on Monday: bathrooms, exercising (oh dear, 2 weeks off and I have to go back, darn it), laundry, dishes, and probably a bit of insanity. No school for the Monkeys on Monday due to President's Day. Oh boy!

Wednesday 2/10

Today was a bit of a strange one. I needed to get a few things done this morning so had to wait to clean until this afternoon.

• cleaned kitchen
• washed and dried white laundry
• helped the Monkeys clean up the basement

Trying to recall what else happened today, but it seems like a really crazy day. This whole week has been crazy. Snow day Monday coupled with a sick Monkey and Friday is an inservice day for all the Monkeys. Crazy, crazy week.

Tuesday 2/9

Thankfully, Monkey-3 feels and looks a million times better today than she did yesterday! The eyes are a toned down red color and no fever! YEAH! No more snow days, so the boy Monkeys went back to school and I got things done! Hooray!

• three bathrooms cleaned
• teeth brushed
• water
• Monkey-3's sheets, pillow, blankets, stuffties, and anything else that was in her bed have been washed and dried. Bed is mostly put back together.
• Monkey's rooms are cleaned and vacuumed
• living room is cleaned and vacuumed
• watching the neighbor girl while her mommy is off having some lab work done
• have to get ready to work at the Y this evening
• went to Sam's to get the stuff that I forgot the last time
• bought milk
• bought juice (we go through a ton of juice and one store has a great selection and it is cheaper there than anyplace else, so I always stop there to buy juice)

I'm sure there is more but I have forgotten. It is amazing how much I can get done when I'm feeling better. Still no exercising. I'm still having some coughing and I know that working out would aggravate the cough. I'm hoping to at least be able to do something this week. Maybe some yoga and pilates while I'm waiting to get back to Shred or something else.

Monday 2/8

Hello Again! Weekends tend to get a little crazy, and honestly, I didn't have much to report this weekend. Saturday I was very tired from lack of sleep and didn't do much of anything. Sunday we took a little trip in the car to look at a "new" car for Mark and back home again without a new car.

Today has been a crazy one. Another snow day for the kiddos. Monkey-3 wouldn't have been at school anyway because she has a rather nasty sinus infection and pink eye in both eyes! So instead of taking one Monkey to the doctor's office I got to take all three! Monkey-3 is napping and will hopefully be feeling back up to her normal self by the morning!

So with that said, I haven't gotten anything done today! Oops! I have gotten the dark laundry washed and dried, but that is about it! And the bathrooms will have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest.

Here's hoping your Monday is going well for you!

Friday 2/5

Ah, another Friday.

• Cleaned all blinds in living room and bedrooms
• baked 2 dozen muffins and 2 dozen + chocolate chip cookies
• changed, washed, and dried the sheet from my bed
• went to the doctor's office (more on this in a moment)
• Worked at the Y

So even though I have been feeling better, I had all this pressure in my ear and this morning I gave in a called the doctor's office. I went in this afternoon and was informed that I have a sinus infection and an ear infection! How the heck does a 32 year old woman get an ear infection? Holy cow! So I'm on the good drugs and I'm trying to get better because only hearing everything in the half fuzzy way I have today isn't working for me.

Thursday 2/4

Still not 100%. I have motivation, but lack the energy to follow through! I felt better after Yoga last night, but still didn't sleep as well as I would have liked! Colds are not fun at all.

• teeth brushed
• basement cleaned up and vacuumed
• dark laundry ~ washed, drying
• dishwasher ~ needs to be emptied

So far I haven't accomplished a ton, but I'm trying to conserve my energy because I have to work this evening. Conserving energy is the most important goal for the day.

10:02 pm Update

• dark laundry ~ washed, dried, folded, put away
• worked at the Y
• jogged to get the mail
• brushed teeth
  

I'm going to have to get things together tomorrow because I'm going to have to bake the day away. I'm giving it all away for a good cause too! Yeah for not eating the cookies and muffins I'll be making!

Wednesday 2/3

I'm still not 100% (although after reading what all I've done you might think I'm insane for saying that). I'm coughing up a lung and my abs feel like I've done about a million crunches and 2 million Jillian workouts, and my nose, my poor nose, is running like I forgot to turn off the water, but I'm not as tired as I was yesterday (although I didn't sleep well last night, all that waking up to cough) and I am not achy like yesterday. Yeah for improvements!

• deep cleaned kitchen ~ floors scrubbed, counters cleaned, blinds cleaned, table cleaned off and slightly scrubbed where sticky
  
• white laundry ~ washed, drying
• Light laundry ~ washed and dried yesterday, sitting in a basket in my bedroom. Will get to it today.
• Laundry room floor scrubbed
• Living room vacuumed
• dishwasher ~ emptied, refilled, washing
  

This took right around 2 hours. Normally I would have been able to get it done in an hour to an hour and a half. See, slow going. I hoping to back to normal by the end of the week. And do a few things tomorrow and Friday that I skipped on Tuesday (cleaning the blinds in the bedrooms and living room and dusting). I'll update later once I get the laundry done. Stand up for any length of time is exhausting and I need to take a break. Cleaning the floor was easy because I was already sitting!

8:24 pm Update

• Light laundry ~ folded and put away
• white laundry ~ washed, dried, folded, put away
• dishwasher ~ emptied again, refilled again, will be washed again

Things I will do before going to bed tonight:

• Yoga (at halftime of the KU game)
• Brush teeth ~ must find a tooth brush that can be boiled

I hope everyone has a wonderful evening!

Tuesday 2/2

Due to illness today is going to be short and sweet!

• vacuumed living room and monkey's rooms
• changed sheets on Monkeys' beds

Trying not to keel over and die is the goal for today. I'm aiming for a nap while the little Monkeys are resting today.

Monday 2/1

Happy February Everyone!! If you are wondering what happened to Sunday, well it happened, but since I was busy, I didn't get around to posting about my unexciting day! I worked that the Y, so that was about the highlight.

Today starts deep cleaning week in my house. The first week of the month is deep cleaning week. I spend more time cleaning each room to make sure that I'm getting all the little places I skip really cleaning. Not to mention the little things like blinds (YUCK) will get cleaned. I like to do it the first week of the month and then the rest of the month is just maintaining the house. In theory anyway!

• 4 rounds of the 6 round slim down
• Basement bathroom cleaned ~ shower cleaned, floors scrubbed, in addition to the normal cleaning.
• Monkeys Bathroom cleaned ~ shower cleaned, floors scrubbed in addition to the normal cleaning, changed shower curtain liner, washed shower curtain
• RS and I's bathroom cleaned ~ Shower cleaned, bathtub cleaned, cabinet top removed everything and cleaned, floor scrubbed in addition to normal cleaning.
• Dark laundry ~ washed, dried, put in basket (will be folded and put away in a few moments.
• Towels ~ washed, drying
• Bathmats ~ washed
• dishwasher ~ emptied, refilled, washing

Since I have so much more to get done I better get moving. Monday's seem like the busiest day, but I think it is all in my mind. Maybe it is because I have extra laundry on Mondays.

2/2 Update

• Dark laundry ~ folded and put away
• towels ~ dried, folded, put away
• bath mats ~ dried, put back in their spots on the bathroom floors
• dishwasher ~ emptied (by Monkey 2 & 3), refilled
• dinner put in the oven for RS to feed family when he was home.
• worked at the Y
• came home and felt incredibly sick and went to sleep hopped up on ny-quil and vitamin C