Motivation

I have lots to do and very little motivation to do it, so I decided to make a list of all the things I need to get done today. I will check them off as I get them done.

1. Get things ready for my mom's visit!
2. Go to the school to drop off Princess and Prince's registration for Math Club - DONE
3. While I am at the school cut out dolphins if needed (long story here) - DONE
4. Hang said dolphins as needed - DONE
5. Talk to the school office and tell them about the school-wide flyer I sent out asking (begging) for volunteers for the school Festival this weekend. We have lots of booths that need lots of help. - DONE
6. Entertain the formerly barfing 3-year-old
7. Do 5 loads of laundry One two three four five
8. Clean 3 bathrooms One two three
9. Finish getting DadOf3's an my bedroom straightened.
10. Get into middle room and put lots of stuff away.
11. Move a couch from middle room to Princess's room
12. Assemble a piece of furniture in Middle room and get it out of my front room where it has been stored for several months.
13. Get out Halloween decorations
14. Vacuum upstairs
15. Vacuum downstairs
16. Dust
17. Entertain the formerly barfing 3-year-old (on-going)
18. Pray that the 5 year old and 7 year old do not start barfing.
19. Skip Bible study (just cannot do it this morning)
20. Clean off desk
21. Pick up Festival Forms and assign willing parents a shift at a booth.
22. Print scheudles from 30 class Room Parents after filling in empty spots with willing parent volunteers.
23. Make cakes for Festival Cake Walk (cannot do this until tomorrow)
24. Decorate said cakes
25. Plan meals for this weekend
26. Get groceries for weekend
27. Stop worrying about a test I have to take next week.
28. Check out future sister-in-law's new bridesmaid dress picks and get back to her
29. Get my sizes (ouch!) and kids' sizes to future sister-in-law
30. Send class newsletter to Princess's class.
31. Feed family as needed
32. Do dishes as needed and keep kitchen counters clear
33. Straighten playroom or coerce/bribe kids to do this
34. Plan what Princess and Prince should wear for school pictures tomorrow
35. This is just off the top of my head. More to follow.
36. Go to the library and pick 5 potential books to read to Prince's Kinder Class on Friday - DONE!
37. Read books to Prince and have him choose his favorite

Busy busy day....

Conferences

All three kiddos get to stay home with me today. It is conference time at Princess's elementary school. I meet with Princess's teacher at 8:00 and then the rest of the day is ours. I am planning to go to the gym and have the kids play in the playroom while I run Week 3 Day 1 of the couch to 5K program. Then we will all go swimming. They love to go swimming and it is a fun "special day" activity for them. It will be nice for Princess to go too.

I am tired. DadOf3 worked in the yard all weekend. I am glad when he gets stuff like that done, but I didn't get a break this weekend from the kids. I didn't get a break last weekend either because I worked upstairs cleaning out baby stuff from one of the bedrooms we cleverly dub the "middle room" because of its location. I packed up all of the little girl clothes that were too small for Princess and all of the little boy clothes that were too small for the Prince and the Knight. I didn't want to do it. But I did it. It took 5 hours on Saturday and at least that many hours on Sunday to get everything sorted, bagged, and recorded for tax purposes.

All of my sweet baby clothes were reduced to a tax write-off. Strange.

Closet Cleaning with a Chronic Door Closer

Have you ever had one of those days where you actually wake up motivated with a list of things that you want to get done running through your head? That does not happen to me very often but it did today. I decided that I was going to get our closets cleaned this week. Now this is a grand endeaver just by itself, at least in my book, not being the natural born organizer that my husband is. I decided to start downstairs since that is where my closet is. Starting was easy because I had been sifting through clothes that do not fit, folding them, and placing them neatly on the floor of my closet since the beginning of the year. I went into my closet to get these when BAM! the closet door slams behind me. Yep, the Knight was at it again. He just cannot stand to have ANY door open. At this point, I had my hands full, so I put the clothes down and opened the door in time to see my little Knight running in his wobbly, toddler gait across my room. He looked back as he was passing through the door, giggled, and BAM! slammed my bedroom door. I chased him, caught him, and tickled him while gently reminding him not to slam doors! Repeat sceneria 5 times and throw in the Knight's new new skill of being able to climb on top of my bed where all of the clothes bound for storage were neatly folded. While their falling to the floor did not make a slamming sound, my shout of "NOOOOOO!" was most likely heard through the neighborhood. So maybe the closet cleaning will not be done as efficiently as I envisioned this morning after all. Oh well!