Plans for the Week
So I have the next three days off. Kevin had Monday and today off. We've had the best intentions of getting stuff done. Haha. How that ends up working.
Yesterday Kevin cleaned out the cabinets in the kitchen. We had a guy scheduled to come today to put up the crown molding and the handles on the cabinet doors and drawers.
And at 5:45 this morning, Kevin gets a text saying he's had a "family emergency" and would not be able to make it out to do the molding or cabinet pulls.
Translation: the job is too small and something bigger came along. This is the thing that sucks about small jobs around the house that require a handiman. They usually arent very reliable (not to mention it really is a crap shoot whether they'll even be half way decent with the work) and 9 times out of 10 schedules change, or they are no shows, or insert 5432543 different excuses.
Bahh. Next house we buy is going to be brand new. Yeah right, LOL I need to hit the lotto big time for that.
So Kevin spent today putting everything back in the cabinets. Sigh...
I have plans to get a HUGE food shopping run done tomorrow. I want to go back to meal planning and sticking a ton of meals in the freezer. I plan on doing a bunch of dump chicken recipes, along with some stuff in the crockpot. If I get all my shopping done tomorrow, on Thursday I can spend a good portion of the day in the kitchen. Should be fun with two kids under my feet, but I'll make it work. Sophia can be my little helper and hopefully I can entertain Sarah with some crayons and paper in her high chair. When all else fails, the pack and play with some Curious George should keep her busy (and quiet) for a bit.
Speaking of the pack and play... that kid... I love her to death but she will NOT sleep thru the night in her crib. She is my 3am wake up call, every.damn.night. Except for the last two nights - Kevin put her to bed in the pack and play in the living room and he's slept on the couch to try and give me break (and probably himself a break too, since when she wakes up she ends up in our bed and Kevin is downgraded to the couch anyway so might as well start out there to begin with).
And that little... you know she's slept thru the night both nights. BOTH NIGHTS. And do you know who was up at 3am EVERY.NIGHT?
Yeah. Its been lovely. Wide awake WAITING for her to wake up.
So now I'm debating just sleeping on the couch the next couple nights while she sleeps in the pack and play. Maybe this is the reset she needs to stop waking up every night (one can hope...).
I wanted to take the girls pumpkin picking this weekend but its supposed to be 50 degrees out. I could kick myself for not going this weekend, when it was beautiful and 70 something each day, but I had this thing about not wanting to go pumpkin picking in SPRING weather. Now I'm worried about going pumpkin picking in WINTER weather. Cant win.
Ok, Enough babble here. I'm going to go start my (massive) food shopping list with the last half hour I'm stuck here.
Yesterday Kevin cleaned out the cabinets in the kitchen. We had a guy scheduled to come today to put up the crown molding and the handles on the cabinet doors and drawers.
And at 5:45 this morning, Kevin gets a text saying he's had a "family emergency" and would not be able to make it out to do the molding or cabinet pulls.
Translation: the job is too small and something bigger came along. This is the thing that sucks about small jobs around the house that require a handiman. They usually arent very reliable (not to mention it really is a crap shoot whether they'll even be half way decent with the work) and 9 times out of 10 schedules change, or they are no shows, or insert 5432543 different excuses.
Bahh. Next house we buy is going to be brand new. Yeah right, LOL I need to hit the lotto big time for that.
So Kevin spent today putting everything back in the cabinets. Sigh...
I have plans to get a HUGE food shopping run done tomorrow. I want to go back to meal planning and sticking a ton of meals in the freezer. I plan on doing a bunch of dump chicken recipes, along with some stuff in the crockpot. If I get all my shopping done tomorrow, on Thursday I can spend a good portion of the day in the kitchen. Should be fun with two kids under my feet, but I'll make it work. Sophia can be my little helper and hopefully I can entertain Sarah with some crayons and paper in her high chair. When all else fails, the pack and play with some Curious George should keep her busy (and quiet) for a bit.
Speaking of the pack and play... that kid... I love her to death but she will NOT sleep thru the night in her crib. She is my 3am wake up call, every.damn.night. Except for the last two nights - Kevin put her to bed in the pack and play in the living room and he's slept on the couch to try and give me break (and probably himself a break too, since when she wakes up she ends up in our bed and Kevin is downgraded to the couch anyway so might as well start out there to begin with).
And that little... you know she's slept thru the night both nights. BOTH NIGHTS. And do you know who was up at 3am EVERY.NIGHT?
Yeah. Its been lovely. Wide awake WAITING for her to wake up.
So now I'm debating just sleeping on the couch the next couple nights while she sleeps in the pack and play. Maybe this is the reset she needs to stop waking up every night (one can hope...).
I wanted to take the girls pumpkin picking this weekend but its supposed to be 50 degrees out. I could kick myself for not going this weekend, when it was beautiful and 70 something each day, but I had this thing about not wanting to go pumpkin picking in SPRING weather. Now I'm worried about going pumpkin picking in WINTER weather. Cant win.
Ok, Enough babble here. I'm going to go start my (massive) food shopping list with the last half hour I'm stuck here.