Since the 2nd week of July someone in our house has been ill... and I mean off and on coughing till you puck, green mucous, teeth cutting pain, snot all over your shirt sleeves kind of ILL! Mike (husband) is the only one that did not catch it and he spent all his time - this will shock you - cleaning up after all of us! I stopped running and counting calories in order to just survive and make enough milk to feed the baby through the illness. We have not been out church in way over a month - new moms in the nursing mothers room don't take kindly to women hacking up a lung in the 5 x 5 room we all feed in. In the midst of all this sickness we have got my mom's house ready to sell. It's been a little crazy!
All that to say, we have not felt normal (or a least our version of normal) for months! Today however, feels like a breaking point. I only coughed once and I did not ever (WARNING: this might be too much information) pee my pants! I encouraged Eli to pick a birthday party theme. It is in a month and a half so we need to get moving on this :) Eli and I searched our little hearts out and "pinned" Lego ideas till we were all "pinned" out. I started to make a paper-mache pinata with Isaac for a fall festival we are having with the neighbors. I used my canning supplies I got from amazon yesterday and canned for the first time! What in the world did people do before You Tube and Pinterst - I mean lets say you wake up and think "today I will can some apple butter and make a pinata" but you have never done these things in your life - how did you figure that out? And lets say you finished that and wanted to start making Lego birthday supplies but did not have a board for that on Pinterest where you steal others amazing ideas - how did you make your 6 year old think you were amazing and that you came up with this brilliant idea to turn baby food jars into Lego head containers using things you already have at home?
So, as you can see - I think we are back to our normal... we are baking, crafting, and only cleaning when we must. And let me give you an example of MUST as we had one this morning:
Must is when your children (the ones that can talk) wake up and say "I want to take a bath" so you put them in the bathtub and go to feed the crying baby. While you are doing so, your oldest says "Oh no! We are surrounded by poop!!!" and because he has a crazy imagination and your middle child is cracking up you say "Are you playing 'imagination' in there or is there really poop?", and then he says "Mama, there is really poop and I HAVE to get out of here". You put down the feeding (now crying) baby to find that in fact the middle child has had diarrhea in the bath-water that contains every, and I mean every, bath toy you own... This is when you MUST clean (and use bleach).
I think I will start running this week! My mom's house is on the market (2 showings tonight!!!!), I have a treadmill in my garage (benefit of cleaning out your mom's house), I am weaning the baby so dieting is in my near future, and my bathtub is sparkly clean! - I feel motivated!
