Playing Catch Up

I feel so behind in just about everything this week. Though it is Monday and the start to a new week, I have been behind for the last week. I simply do not understand how, being a stay at home mom, I can get behind. But it happens. Though we stayed home much of the week last week, I spent my time trying my best to keep my son busy. Much of my "free" time was spent doing what was needed around the house. I have been behind in my laundry, though not as bad as it could be. I have been behind in phone calls and emails as well. I just haven't had the quiet time to do those things. One thing I have had the time to do is get Camden potty trained!! I am quite happy about this. We have gone more than a week without any accidents. He is doing so well and I can not say enough how proud I am of him. Merci is doing well too. I did have few bad nights over the last week that has kept me up. Consequently, I had not gotten up at my new early morning wake up time and slept in those days. I think that has been what has thrown me off. When I get into a good pattern and something happens to throw it off, I feel as though it takes me days just to get back on track. Mike and I were just talking about this last night. I feel like when any of my normal routines get thrown off, I spend double time trying to make up for it. Whether it is with my own personal routines or those I have set for our family. I think back to before I had kids and how much I lacked routine and scheduling. I like to be flexible, but now I live on routine. My kids both do best when taking naps everyday at the same time. They sleep better at night when they go to bed at the same time. I am finding these same things to be true for myself. I have loved going to bed at the same time and rising at the same time everyday. I actually look forward to it. I told Mike that there is just something about knowing what to expect. I feel as though I function much better under those conditions. I guess it's because I have two little ones who depend on me and this is what works best for us.

Don't know how I got off on that rabbit trail. In other news...we had to have our van looked at because there was a rattling under the front drivers side tire. We really were not sure what it could be. As with any used vehicle there is that risk of something going wrong after getting it home or worse yet that it was sold to you with a problem. So, we were preparing ourselves for something bad and costly. Well we had it looked at on Friday. The results were the much better than what we could have expected. It was only the bushings and it only cost $130. The majority of the cost was labor, which was a ripoff. It took them less than an hour to fix it and the part was only $10. Oh well, we are not complaining because it could have cost so much more to fix had it been something worse. And the best part is no more rattling and my van is back. We have only had the van for a month, but the last week and half I really haven't driven it because we wanted it to be looked at. I have missed it. I don't know how we have gone these last 4 months without it. :0)

We didn't do anything for Valentine's day. Actually, we really don't do a whole lot any way, but because of all the snow this week we stayed in. We usually just use the day as an excuse to have a date. We took advantage of being out Friday and had my mother-in-law watch Camden while we took the van in and then went to lunch. It was nice. Merci slept the whole time and we enjoyed a great lunch/dinner. We went to Ruby Tuesday's. We both got really good chicken that neither of us could finish.

I am glad that this week is supposed to get warmer. I have had cabin fever and so has Camden. We are going to have a play date this week with Camden's friends Noelle and Joel. I think we may make make a trip to the mall one day to go walking as well. This weekend is baby dedication Sunday at church and we have a call in to Pastor Steve to see if Merci can be dedicated. I am pretty certain she will be. This important to us and I hope we can do it this weekend.

Well, I need to get a start to all of my work that is waiting for me. I best not put it off any longer. Have a great day everyone.