It has been a long time that I have written anything new, obviously. I can always say that time has gotten away from me, and I didn't have the time. I do find more and more often that I do have less and less time to myself. But then when I think about the time I do have to myself, I often don't want to be alone. Crazy, right?
It has been very busy around here. Sadie is now 3 1/2 and going to school every day, every morning. Eryn is 1 1/2, and loves her sister so much. It is truly amazing to watch her unconditional love just unfold before my eyes.
So you would think that with one in school all the time, I have even more time to myself, you are sadly mistaken. I get less done in a shorter amount of time. Maybe I should look into time management, and see if being more organized would help the situation. I would like to think of myself as an organized individual, but I must have gone wrong somewhere, because I am complaining that I don't have the time to do something.
For those of you that don't have children, or if it has been awhile since you have had little children, let me give you a glimpse of what I have accomplished thus far, and the day is only half over. I was woken up by Sadie, who had taken her pajamas off, tapping me on the face telling me that it was time to get up, and read her calendar. Her calendar is on the fridge, and from school, and lets her know what she was going to do in school today. Today happens to be music day. She is excited and starts clapping her hands, and gives me a big hug telling me, "Thank you Momma for my music class." Then while I get her some juice, she goes back to her bedroom to pick out the summer dress she wants to wear to school, and not the outfit I picked out, because she doesn't want to wear black, and she doesn't want to wear pants and look like a boy. While I am trying to explain to her that wearing pants does not mean she looks like a boy but rather she can do down the slide at school at a super fast rate of speed without her latest boyfriend seeing her tinkerbell underwear, she pouts, and tells me I am mean. I then secretly go into her room and remove all of the other summer dresses and put them in a tupperware container to be put in the attic to save for Eryn in a few years. I then come back into the tv room to find that Sadie has decided to start getting dressed herself, with the outfit I picked out. She has her pants on, backwards, and her shirt is on inside out. She is in the process of putting her socks on, and her shoes, on the wrong feet. I just sigh, and ask her what she wants for breakfast. She says" Nothing." I go into the kitchen and get her a banana. She takes it and starts to eat it. I then ask her what she wants for lunch. (On Mondays, she gets to eat lunch at school.) Sadie tells me, " I want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but no jelly." I laugh. I am in the kitchen making her lunch when I hear Sadie say, "Hi Babee! Momma, Eryn is nakey!" I look to find Eryn exactly that, not even a diaper on. Now, I start thinking to my self if I really did put pajamas on her, because I know that we did get home late last night. As I walk back to Eryn's room, I did find proof that she did have pajamas on at one point, and yes a diaper. Eryn followed me back to her room, says very pleasantly, "Momma" and proceeds to give me a big hug...and then pee on my leg. I then pick her up, get her diapered and dressed. I go into my room, change clothes, and start to brush my teeth. I now have Sadie and Eryn in the bathroom with me, "helping me brush my teeth." I leave the room with them behind me, with a pile of laundry in my hand.
So the three of us are finally dressed, and dry. Eryn and Sadie are now in the tv room eating a banana and drinking their juice. I am in the kitchen again, and seeing that I never finished the peanut butter and jelly sandwich sans jelly, I drop the pile of dirty clothes on the kitchen floor. I finish the lunch, and put it in Sadie's backpack, and announce its time to go. Both Sadie and Eryn run to the front door, only the find that Sadie's hair is not brushed. My bad! I do some quick pig tails, and make announcement number 2 we are ready to go. Again, both girls run to the front door, and now I find that Eryn has taken off her shoes, socks, and pants. It's 40 degrees outside, so this won't do. I tell Sadie to not move a muscle, and proceed to get Eryn dressed. Again. So now announcement number 3 that we are leaving, and we are all finally out the door, in the car, buckled, and off to school.
The car ride to school takes 10 minutes. Within that 10 minutes Sadie informs me that she is not going to marry Sawyer, Rosslyn is, and she is going to marry Joey. Oh, and Eryn and I are invited to the wedding. Good thing we arrive at school...I'm not ready for that conversation.
Sadie is dropped off and Eryn and I are headed home. Eryn is quiet, so I get to listen to 10 minutes of the radio, the station I enjoy, and it is nothing but commercials.
Eryn gets in the house and says she wants to eat. Let me rephrase that. I finally get my bowl of oatmeal ready to eat myself, and Eryn tells me she wants to eat. We share my breakfast, and play with her toys. I tell her that I will be right back because I have to go potty. In the 3 minutes I was gone, she has my underwear on her head, and shes trying to put my bra on. It was then I remembered the pile of laundry in the kitchen. I get the laundry in the washer, and Eryn tells me she is ready to eat again. I tell her we just ate, and look at the clock. It's lunchtime. She eats macaroni and cheese, while I get some prep work for dinner done. Shes done, and gets down from her chair, only to go over to the fridge and say, "eat". I open the door, and she gets out and hands me the jar of pickles. She eats her pickles while we dance to some music, and get back into the car for pick up Sadie from school.
Granted, Eryn is sleeping now, and Sadie is sitting next to me "working", which every few minutes she will ask me a new question. It's nice outside today, so I'm hoping to get to play outside with them in a bit after E wakes up.
So to sum it up, I have had a total of 3 minutes to myself today. Maybe I do need a lesson in time management. Or maybe Sadie and Eryn do......
Ahhh...the things my children make me do......like forget I have a load of laundry in the washer and I need to put in the dryer. Now.
