Journal Entry: Busy Busy Busy...

I just realized it's been 3 weeks since I last wrote on my blog. I thought it had been about 3 days! That should tell you the state of my brain in this last month!

I finally stopped working, YAY! I finished 2 weeks ago, and it's amazing how much better I feel in both mind and body now that I'm not worrying about work. Having said that, the extra 30 hours a week I've supposedly gained are flying by... 


It's wedding season, so Hubby is incredibly busy at the moment, made slightly (only slightly) worse by the fact that I'm no longer able to be his assistant on the job. He's been up to his neck in weddings, phone calls, emails, client meetings, album design, print orders and invoices. I'm not the best administrative assistant either. 


While he has been doing that, I've been taking advantage of the 2 completely child-free days we have during the week (with Cory at school full time and Kem in day care 2 days a week) to spring clean and organize the house. I started with the laundry and the cleaning cupboard, then moved on to the kitchen and organized the pantry and the kitchen cupboards, then the kids bedroom and our bedroom. 


Now that everything is clean and tidy, I'm just trying to work out where to put the PILE of stuff that doesn't have anywhere to go. Our house is very small, and has almost NO storage at all. So finding convenient places to store things is a bit difficult... All the usual spaces like the space on top of the pantry and under the beds are already taken. I have several large bags full of fabric, scraps, patterns, notions and unfinished projects that need housing somewhere... preferably not the shed. Then there's 2 corners in our bedroom which are crowded with things... I'm sure they could go in the shed but hubby is not convinced.

There's still a lot to do, all the toys in the kids room need sorting out and there's a few bags to drop off at goodwill, their clothes all need sorting because I know they've grown out of half of what's in their drawers, and I don't know how on earth I'm going to get hubby to cull his wardrobe yet again (I shop a hundred times more than my husband, yet he still has ten times the amount of clothes and shoes that I do...). Our bedroom needs rearranging to make some room for the bassinet, the queen size bed and single bed in the kids room will have to go and be replaced with bunk beds... We're hunting around for "our" perfect pram (which is very different to "my" perfect pram), and a cot for later on after the baby has outgrown the bassinet.

And somewhere in there my cousin and my two sister-in-laws all had their babies. So I was busy making baby booties and burp cloths. Right now I'm also working on a pile of projects... they are all unfinished and they're all for Christmas so unfortunately, I can't post any of them until the New Year.

And of course, only 5 more weeks until our new baby arrives, and I just can't wait to see the joy on my husband's face when he holds his brand new baby for the first time!