Treading Water

Today whilst I was procrastinating other stuff and paying bills on the computer, Emma decided to have her own bit o' fun. I must preface this with an insite to my "Princess Emma." She is a drama"QUEEN." So, I guess she is not my "Princess" Emma, but you get the gist. Anyhow, she has also inherited my curiosity of how things work and is constantly taking things apart and then expects ME to fix them! Actually, I think she gets that from her Uncle Stephen. The other day, she broke her ceramic piggy bank (for the 2nd time) but this time into many more pieces. When I said we should throw it away. She says, "But Mommy, you can fix it!" After I said it was beyond repair the tears pouring down her face, "but please Mommy! Please!" How can you say no to that. I ended up spending a day and half with the pig on the counter gluing various parts as others dried. What a pain! However, it is back together-until next time she decides to try and put it on the topshelf she cannot reach. That little anecdote actually had nothing to do with today. So back to my little princesses "Emma-tude." She thinks she is big enough to do ANY and EVERYthing. She loves to pour her own drinks, dish her own food, stick her fingers in stuff and basically loves to make messes. So today, I left her downstairs by herself watching a movie (I think I momentarily lost my mind) so I could pay bills on the computer. About 20 minutes later I walk downstairs and my kitchen floor is glistening (no, I did not mop it recently and even when I do it doesn't look that shiny!) No, I had about a half inch of water on my floor. Not "oh, thank goodness it's water!" The water was to clean up the RED DYE #40-oops I mean Crystal Lite drink she spilled on my white/tan counter height stools! She previously had seen me take the chairs outside and wash them off by using pitchers of water to rinse vinegar out of the seats (also courtesy of our little princess). So, she decided to clean them that way, also. Only this time in the house. My favorite part of all this is that she throws such a stink when I have her help me clean these messes up! It's like "helloooo!" "I feel like the maid. I just cleaned up this place! Can't we keep it clean for like 5 minutes?!"

But the semblance of sanity is here today, I did get to play some volleyball! Yay me!

Anyhow, back to today.

Intentions

I have such good intentions. However, I am going to put them off right now to update "the blog." My house is upside down right now! Ack! Emma and I decided to make clothes for her "babies." So, I hauled out the plastic bucket of fabric, the serger, the sewing machine, another tote of fabric and crafty odds and ends and a few bags of miscellaneous stuff like scissors, etc. Ugh, after that I was about ready to just put it back without doing any sewing! After finding the basics needed to actually sew, (this sounds like when I scrapbook, too. I MUST be doing something wrong - oh wait I know, it's the organized thingy I lack.) Okay, so after sewing a couple of outfits (and repairing the zipper on my favorite pair of jeans) mysteriously all the stuff I wasn't using was strewn EVERYWHERE! The puzzling part is Quincey was asleep. Hmmm. However, the other two were being very "helpful." The puzzling is over. Then, I got the idea in my head (at the time I should have started preparing dinner) to "REORGANIZE" my crafty stuff! "Hello?! Self? Are you there? What are you thinking?!" I got partway through organizing- you know the part where it gets worse before it gets better? Then, I really needed to start dinner or I was going to have a rebellion on my hands or a coup or something. So, I scootched all the stuff to one side of the table and on the floor beside it and we had dinner. Then, FHE and then time to put the kids to bed and that is where I stopped in to update. So, now I get to go put my house back together. I feel like the kings horses and men that couldn't put humpty together again. It just seems like that daunting of a task. Yay, here I go...........................................
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Hmmm. Can't I just do it later? No! Get up! Now! ..............................................................................
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Looks like I listen to myself about as well as my kids do. Okay here I go! 1-2-3 Up and save.

Volleyball Productivity

On Wednesday, I played volleyball down in a league in Nephi. We had two games with and hour and a half of downtime in between. My crafty/talented friends would have brought their sewing machine along and created a closet full of clothes on the sidelines as they waited. Or better yet, matching uniforms for the team. Me? I downed a 44 oz soda! Mmmmm. Haven't had one of those in a long time. I should plan ahead. Hmmm, maybe later. :0)

However, my life wasn't completely devoid of productivity that day. I did finally wash my 4 gallon buckets and pour hundreds of pounds of bulk food storage items into them. Something I have only been meaning to do for over 2 weeks. Yes!

Oh! And I also got my October Calendar of Meals done, too! Look at me and my overacheiving self! Looks like I don't have to do anything for the rest of the week! I have gone above and beyond!