Ready to Go
We are having an open house and I am so not ready for it. I have been running around cleaning trying to get ready and I still have so much to do. The baby has a cold. He has been so fussy and clingy. I have spent most of my time holding him over the last few days. He is finally sleeping in my bed by his self. I had to lay down with him and sneak out. I am hoping that tomorrow he will be feeling better so that I can get things done. I am ready for him to go back to his normal playful self and sleeping in his crib. W.C. on the other hand has been really good over the last few days. We had to trade in our SUV since we were repairing it constantly it wasn’t worth it to keep. I got a Mini Van! I am a soccer mom now. I don’t have any kids in soccer but hey, that’s what they call moms with Mini Vans. My husband is glad he gets his truck back now. He even had it washed and waxed it the second day he took it. Then made a point to tell me how good it looked when you put a little work into it. I wanted to smart mouth off to him about how he did it since he was driving it. That maybe if I wasn’t so busy making 3 meals a day, doing dishes, laundry, taking care of the kids, the pets, and the house that maybe I would have time to do my own. But hey, feel free to do it for me. I think sometimes people don’t realize how much you have to do as a mom. I think that having the house for sale has made me become more domesticated for lack of a better word. I spend the morning gathering everything that was messed up the night before hoping the baby will be happy in the highchair long enough for me to get most of it done. Then depending on the time the kids play for a little longer while I try to get some more done. Then it’s time to nurse and get the baby’s nap in. If I am lucky at that point I can take a shower if I didn’t get up at the crack of dawn and take one. Then it’s lunch time and we either keep cleaning or hang out until Papa gets home. Then we have dinner to make and bed times. After that it all starts over the next day. I can’t wait until my house isn’t for sale. I can play with my kids more, leave with a few dirty dishes in the sink, not vacuuming the floors, or worrying about the toys strung thru the house. Is that so wrong? I think it’s a lot of stress. I can see how people can keep a spotless house but wow, what do the kids do all day? I mean W.C. is into things every minute of the day and now the baby is on the move. I feel like I spend my time cleaning or holding the baby. I took a break from cleaning to write this and the baby is already awake for a night feeding. Poor W.C. rarely gets any one on one time with me, and I almost never get any alone time. Ha, listen to me I sound like a little brat. I guess I just needed to vent. I really do love being at home with the kids. They really are cool kids and that is not something everyone can say. I think that we are just so short (Army saying for about to move) I am ready for it to be done. I want to get settled in a house and have my calendar filled up with things for the kids and not packers, carpet cleaners, and all the last minute things that need to be done before a move. I am so glad that we will only have one more move after this. Then it will be civilian life for us. That sounds funny now though since we are moving to a duty station that doesn’t have a base. It’s going to be a little bit of culture shock for us I think. Hopefully, though it will be good, and we are planning on trying to stay out there. We think a duty station can be whatever you make it and we are looking forward to Florida. We didn’t want to move here and we really don’t like it here but we do love our house so we have made it work. I think this time around we are so happy about the location that things will be good for us. I just hope that it lives up to everything that people have made it out to be.
