many mundane moments

broken record

I'm having a hard time posting because it seems like I just keep saying the same old stuff.

Revisiting Howie's sleeping- it has turned around completely. At last mention I was on the verge of a breakdown, but fortunately it was a breakthrough that we had instead. It must have been all your positive thoughts. He slept until 2:30AM that night and with minimal comforting from Matt went back to sleep until after 6. The one waking got progressively later for a few days and he's currently on a streak of sleeping 8:30PM-6AM. Now, I'm loving that he doesn't wake during the night, but that 6 o'clock is a little hard for his night owl parents. We also may be in trouble next spring when the days get shorter again because we're pounding it into him that he can get up when it's morning. As soon as the slightest bit of light starts creeping in, he's standing next to our bed. I was paranoid that he would wake up at 12:30 last night when the backyard neighbors turned on their patio light. Our room was at least as bright as at 6AM and I don't know how I could have convinced him otherwise.

They've officially started repairing the $9,950 in damage to our car. Good thing it didn't look any worse, or they would have totalled it for sure. It was right at their threshold for total or repair and could have gone either way. Matt chose repair because .... well, I'm not entirely sure. I think I could have easily gone the other way.

Not only am I talking about the same things over and over, but it seems like my days keep repeating. I've been making an effort to get my house completely clean. I've been in a bit of a funk the last month and I'm hoping that will help get me out of it, or at least make the next month of funk more bearable. It started on saturday when I declared it a good, old-fashioned clean the whole house day. That got derailed when Howie took a nosedive out the backdoor. His naptime got bumped up, which meant no vacuums, floormates, cleaning the master bath or folding the laundry in our room, which unfortunately was where we were on the list. Then we spent most of the next two days with family. I started again Monday, but it was a regular workday for Matt and there were a few things left undone. I'm no good at self-motivating.

It's so frustrating because if I don't finish one night, then the next morning there's the things from the day before, plus 5 other things will need done. I'm not even going to start on the list of what I'm leaving undone tonight. Let's just say Howie is going to have plenty to play with when he gets up tomorrow morning. I'm going to be in a bad state if I don't get a better attitude about this. The next 50 years will be pretty rough if I'm already complaining of the drudgery that is housework. I'm usually okay about maintenance and doing something everyday, but this trying to have everything done at once is overwhelming. I mean, we're not even expecting company.

and it just keeps repeating. At least September is already looking better than August was for us.

posted by Valarie @ 12:47 AM