Countdown to Vacation...

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Tomorrow is Friday. Friday means my son has school and the girls and I will run to Target to buy groceries after we drop him off. It means take out for dinner and pumping breastmilk for the baby so I can go to work on Saturday.

It also means that school vacation starts wen I pick my son up from school at 11 am.

I really am hoping that this coming week will somewhat relaxing, which it inherently will be because I don't have to transport my son to school three days of the week (I loath loading the kids up in the car). Other reasons my week may be somewhat good are that my husband has Monday off from work (help with the kids, yeah!) and my son is having a sleepover at my mom's on Tuesday (this means that my daughter will not have anyone to fight with while he is gone therefore cutting down on headaches for me).

Yeah for Friday and school vacation! I can't wait for summer vacation so I can be even more super lazy!

Partially Comatose But Still Here...

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I am still alive though I feel partially comatose from all of this "taking it easy".

I am doing better and my incision looks as if it will in fact hold up and not split open, spilling my guts all over the floor. Because I am doing better I am still going to not do much around the house as I don't want to make the same mistake I did before and push my body before it's ready. Then I would be stuck doing not much of anything for even longer which in turn could drive me to the looney bin.

So, yet another day of not accomplishing the many things that I want to get done. I have some items that I really need to return to the Children's Place before the 45 day return window ends, which is very soon. I could send my husband but I'm not sure if going to the mall on a Saturday in December is something I would make him do because it will most likely be packed with people buying lame gifts for their friends and family. I also have a few things to drop off at UPS and I have an order to pick up at Toys R Us that I placed online the other day (I got two Zhu Zhu Pets battle arenas and a tunnel thing for $3- I found the deal on Slickdeals and will be donating the toys to Toys for Tots because my kids do not need anything else for Christmas).

Today, since I will be sitting at home yet again, I suppose I can start to decorate the Christmas tree that my husband bought last night. I can also wrap some presents- hopefully we have enough tape because my son is obsessed with using tape and even though I had tons that I got for free awhile ago I'm afraid he may have depleted my inventory.

As for right now, I am going to take a peaceful shower because for at least a little while I am kid free. My husband and his friend took all three kids out with them to get coffee (the kids don't get coffee, they get doughnuts) and my house is so quiet that I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone. I have forgotten what it feels like to take a shower and not have to rush- I mean, people actually take showers that last longer than ten minutes? That really just blows my mind...

Lazy Day...

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Today we have no school to go to (my son only goes to pre-school three days a week), no appointments, no needed shopping trips, etc. This makes me happy.

I love days where there is no set schedule, especially now since I am in the home stretch of my pregnancy and feel like a a beached whale. We can just do whatever we want and not have to worry about rushing to get anywhere or having to get anything in particular done (though today I do need to change the sheets on the beds, dust and vacuum upstairs and clean the darn guinea pig cage before it gets condemned by the health department).

So here is to today, a day where I will hopefully relax at least a little bit and put up my grossly swollen feet.  Now, just to somehow get my kids to cooperate...

Snapshot into My Day So Far...

It is 8:30 am and the kids and I are still in our pajamas.

My son is in his room right now because he was having a freak out session this morning (I suppose I should get him soon).

The kids' breakfast has been half cleaned up and I have not eaten my breakfast yet.

In a few minutes I am going to get off of my lazy butt and clean up the kitchen, give the kids a bath and get them dressed, change the sheets on the beds and maybe take a shower before lunch time.

What I would like to be doing instead of all that is be taking a nice relaxing nap... Maybe in twenty years when the kids have all (hopefully) moved out. 

Lazy Days...

My son's last day of nursery school is a couple of weeks away as well as his last day of soccer and then we will be free from any sort of schedule for the summer (except for one week that I signed him up for camp at his school for a few hours a day).

It will be nice to be able to do what we want but at the same time I am a little scared because those two half days a week that he was going to school were a break for me- not a break from my son per say but a break from my two kids fighting constantly about everything. Maybe they will chill out and cut the crap... I doubt it but a mom can wish can't she?

Once fall comes everything is going to be so different from how it is now- my son will be going to school three mornings a week which will take a lot of adjustment for me to get used to getting out of the house by 8:15 am and then in November the baby will be here which will be whole lot more adjustments for my family.

But for now, what is on my mind are the lazy days of summer where this lazy mom can just enjoy bumming around with her two kids.