i got nothing

Wednesday was a snow day, just really without the snow and it was really cold which made for a really rough day.  My kids would love to just watch Netflix all day, but I won't let them, I make them, play with toys, yes I know I am horrible mother.  I also make them do school work on snow days, yes the crimes I have committed, at least according to my children.  It was a tough day because we lost our rhythm. We were in a good stay-at-home rhythm over Winter Break, but then the kids started back to school, well kind of. Due to cold days and kind of snow days they have had many 2 hour delay days. Yesterday was totally blah, it was cold, there was a little bit of snow, but not enough to play in it. It was just a cold, boring day.  We did go for a walk, but Lance complained the whole time and the cold headwind was brutal on the way home. I did get laundry done so something was accomplished. We did sing our hearts out to the songs from "Frozen" so we did have some fun, but overall it was just blah. 
Today was also a blah day too.  Thank goodness tomorrow is January 31st, I am ready for a new month, a fresh start, a month closer to spring.  Is it just me or is January the longest month ever? 

the only little snowball we could make with the dry and barely there snow

disappointment

A month ago I responded to a job posting.  It was a work from job home with good pay and related to my degree and previous experience as a teacher.  The pay was pretty decent too.  I got a response right away with an evaluation assignment which I completed.  A few days later I was contacted to give two e-mail addresses of my references.  They contacted two references then I was contacted about setting up a phone interview.  The phone interview was postponed due to a large project the manager was working on and then postponed again when the same manager was ill.  I finally had the phone interview a week ago Monday and I thought it went fine.  The interviewer told me that she would I guess contact whoever she is suppose to and then I should hear something within a week or week and half.  Well today is a week and half and still nothing.  Bummer.
No news is never good news for me and I am disappointed.  I was really hoping this would work out.   I really want to help out our family financially so the burden would not all be on the shore, I wanted to pay down our debt, have money in savings, have a little extra to fix up the house and complete the projects that have been on hold for years.  This job seemed to be perfect, work from home with hours that I set doing something that I know and enjoy, uh, I am just so bummed.  In January, I thought I that keeping one of Lance's school friends would be perfect, though their were a few drawbacks, but it didn't work out and then this possibility came along and this is even better, so I hope that if this doesn't work out that means there is something better, but I can't imagine something better.  Sometimes I really want a billboard that clearly explains what is the right choice to make because the road signs are all so confusing. 

Top Ten Things I Really Should Be Doing Today During Naptime

I have a large to do list yet here I am procrastinating, but list making helps me motivate myself, or at least that is what I tell myself

Today I need to

1- finish up the laundry- thanks to the stomach bug that invaded our life last week and part of the week before I have had to wash EVERYTHING- didn't know we had so many washables!

2- clean the kitchen- I went grocery shopping right after dinner last night so it wasn't cleaned up after dinner and the dirty dishes remain

3- clean up the playroom- it is a disaster since that is where we lived while stomach bug visited daddy

4- read my Bible in 90 days reading for today, the babes decided to get up extra early and not give me any morning quiet time

5- organize this months bills after paying a little on each so I can figure out how much we still need to pay

6- list of e-bay/ half.com some stuff I have found we don't really need, but worth something

7- get all the vacuuming done so I can wash the filter on the vacuum, well actually, I can't vacuum during naptime so preparing the rooms to be vacuumed as soon as naptime is over with

8- clean the bathrooms, one more time, just to make me feel better- they have the Lysol residue

9- make sugar cookie dough so we can make and decorate Valentine's Day cookies

10- and finding a little time to just stop and be still so I can be ready to play and be engaged when the kids get up from nap

the likelihood of getting many of these done is slim, but it is a worthy goal, I am so ready to get back into a good routine since we have been so out of whack from all the snow/sleet and illness
oh how i can't wait for spring!

rainy/snowy blah saturday

It is easy to get a case of the blahs on a rainy/snowy saturday afternoon.
It is days like this when I wish Jeff had a real job and had Saturdays off so we could just hang out at home together.
It is lonely here while the kids are napping and it is the perfect weather for hanging out  inside, watchign a movie and relaxing, not inside alone waiting for five o'clock.
Lance and I did have fun playing a few levels of Batman before he fell asleep and this morning we went over to my mom's house to help her bring down Christmas decorations from the attic and put up her artificial tree, which helped time pass.
Speaking of Lance, I don't know what is up with him, yesterday he was running a fever, first thing this morning he was too, I gave him some motrin, he perked up and acted like his normal self.  Right before he conked out I took his temp and it was normal though he felt a little warm.  Not sure what is going on with him, I hate phantom fevers with no other symptoms.
Since I am not sure what is going on with Lance, if he is still ill or not leads to my evening plans.
This evening is the Christmas parade downtown, I want to go, but with Lance possibly under the weather and with rain mixed with snow, it is seems like it will be just miserable and not a good idea.  If it just just snowing I would definitely go, but then again, I don't know want Lance to get worse or take him out if he isn't better.  What to do, what to do.  I should take a nap, I wish I was that kind of person who can, I just don't nap well, I like to go, go, go. 
Enough complaining for one blah day, right?

another rainy blah day

but I got a whole lot done.
I can't believe it, but the kids and I did not leave the house today and the house is cleaner and more organized then it was this morning even without Lance napping,
So overall it was a good day, a blah day, but good.
It didn't start out promising, this morning both kids were cranky, and it seemed like someone was always crying and someone was always pulling the shower curtain aside and wanting to climb in while I tried to get clean.
There was one highlight to my day, Lance pulled out a puzzle after lunch and when I went to make dinner I noticed it was still out, I asked Lance to put it away and he did.  I was floored, he put something away when I asked the first time without standing over him and doing it when overtired.  I tried my luck for a second time after he got out the legos and he put them away and even put them back on the shelf, I love my new little helper and hope he stays.
So my research proposal is complete and turned in, now the next stress is preparing for a class presentation on it and the final exam, two more weeks and I will be home free, can't wait.
So the weather outside was frightful, but inside was quite productive, my kind of day!

30 days of blah

This year NaBloPoMo was tough.  I didn't feel like posting something everyday because life right now is kind of blah and finding something to post was difficult.  As a result I posted a lot of blah.
Then to finish out the month of blah, today is really blah. It is so dark and gloomy and rainy that even some streetlights are on though it is 3 o'clock in the afternoon and we have at least two more hours of daylight left in the day.
So I did it, I posted every day for 30 days.  I feel some satisfaction, I think.  Part of me wishing that my ducks were all in a row so I could post about exciting things, because who wants to read about complaining and the blah-ness of life right, I don't even want to. 
Well anyways, here's to making it 30 days, even it is just blah.