A Good Days Work

Can you imagine a world without men?  No crime and lots of happy fat women.  

~Nicole Hollander

Today was quite a successful day.  I was able to FINALLY clear the last 4 boxes that remained from our move in July of last year!  It was so satisfying!  My son was very funny.  I got almost all our laundry done.  I washed our sheets and all of our towels.  I can now shower, and sleep in clean, soft, yummy smelling sheets.  I cleared my table, and organized my sons room.  I now have access to everything in my room from drawers, to baskets, to bookshelf!  That sounds silly, but anyone who had seen my room in the last 6 months would tell you that is a miracle.  I vacuumed and swept.  I even got some work done on some past due photos.

What a bunch of goof offs!

My husbands computer (which I used up until this year) crashed sometime in August or September of last year.  It had all of my photos!  Including some paid jobs.  I recently had a young man offer to attempt a retrieval of all photos and music off of our dead computer.  He was very successful.  Unfortunately I was not able to retrieve all of the photos that I needed.  I got some from this photo shoot, but I didn't get the photos of this girls actual dance.  But I am sure her mother will be relieved to get some photos.  Especially since I am not going to charge her anything.  Anyway, so this is her and her brother.  She's a committed ballerina.  Her brother is a firefighter who my mother was able to make present in recent productions.  He does a beautiful job.

I've also started cooking using my Crockpot again.  This is very exciting news indeed.  I made Maple Glazed Meatballs over Rice a couple nights ago.  Unfortunately we ran out of money for the week.  So, we've been eating those meatballs over rice for lunch and dinner the last couple of days.  Once my husband gets paid this week I'll send him out and make Barbecue shredded Pork sandwiches one of these nights.  That will be delicious.  One of my recent hardships has been trying to get my son to eat.  He will eat anything that my mother hands to him.   Even if it's something I've already tried to get him to eat.  But, no matter what I give him, he doesn't want it.  He ends up throwing it.  It has been disastrous.  Someone told me to put ketchup on his food.  That it might make him less picky.  But, this has been unsuccessful.  He loves the ketchup!  And that is half the problem.  Most days he will even suck the ketchup straight from the food and spit the food out.  It's funny, but looking at my husband and I, you would barely believe that our son doesn't hardly eat.  We're definitely foodies.  We love food.  I know I'll be happy if I just die in a vat of cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory.  That will be the perfect way to head to heaven!  Did I mention that I got almost all laundry done?!  I know!  Amazing right?!?!?!

Brother and sister.

I love my home being clean.  It really makes me feel much happier.  I can't tell you how freeing it feels to walk into your room and not have your first thought be, "ugh.. I really got to get that done!" and have your heart drop to the floor in surrender.  It's depressing not having the time, energy, or will power to get the things you want done, done!  But today, without thinking about it, I did it!  And my chest feels literally lighter!  If only my fat fell off like the weight on my chest after cleaning today!  I even got some alone time this evening when my husband took my son over to the in-laws.  Of course, I spent it trying to finish the last of the laundry.  But, none the less.  I feel like I had a very successful day today.  Try it.  You won't regret it!  Just give fifteen minutes to the area you've been staring at this whole week/weekend!

Sibling rivalry.