Today I am glad school is back in session. So glad to be back on some kind of routine. Kids (and moms!) do much better and are happier when on a routine. I swear by this. What’s funny is that at first, back in my early mom years, I completely fought this concept. Routines? Bah, they are for scheduled people! Rigid personalities, even. Surely that will never be me. I’m more of a go with the flow kind of person…
Ha! That lasted only so long. I need routine just as much as the kids.
Here is what happens in my house when we are off our daily routine…
Messy kids’ rooms. Messy parent’s room. Messy bathrooms.
Messy house!!
How does this happen?
It looks awful, doesn’t it. Well, it happens pretty darn quickly in our very crowded house when no one (including me) is on their normal daily routine. Our normal daily routine is something like this: go to bed at a decent hour, get up at a decent hour, make your bed, tidy your room, put away your clothes, do your household chores. But when we are not on our normal, daily routine – like when we are on the two-week holiday break – our days go something like this: go to bed very, very late….sleep in very, very late…play, lounge around, do nothing. And at first that’s kind of nice. I’ll admit to liking the no-schedule-do-nothing days. But I can only take so much of it. I can only live in chaos for a few days before I get grouchy and lose it.
So I’m glad to say that it’s over now – the chaos is gone, and we are back on routine. Which means yay! my house is clean again! (I know, you want proof, don’t you? Well, I didn’t take photos of the clean and tidy house, so you’ll just have to trust me.)
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| This is me and my black boots that I can still see over my growing belly. |
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| and tada! this is my growing belly at 20 weeks. |
We have our 20 week ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow morning. I am so excited to see our little guy again! The last time was during an ultrasound when I was just 12 weeks along. I’m sure he’s more interesting to look at now. I will see fingers and toes and all that good stuff. I can’t wait!
So do you know you are having a boy or are you just saying that for now hehe! It would fit the pattern I suppose! In the UK we can find out the gender of the baby at the 20 week ultrasound, do you guys get to find out sooner than us? No fair!
Hope all goes well anyway! x
Oh wow!!! That is so great!! Congratulations!!!
so so so excited for me, we are pregnant with number 7 right now. so so excited
Yay!!!!!!!!
So excited for you!!!!
Hello! I’ve been away from the blog for a while, and so have you!!! But I noticed the other day that you’ve started posting again and I have caught up. First of all, CONGRATULATIONS!!! I have been hoping that you would be having another baby – I know it’s something you and your family have really wanted…Honestly, reading your post made me want to have 1 more too! We have 3 and are at the “should we have a 4th stage?” So, if we end up having another, I am blaming it all on you
I really enjoy your blog – our lives are very different and yet I feel I can relate to a lot of things about you. Sometimes, you read these mommy blogs and you know they are either (a) highly sanitized b/c the moms sound like superwoman after she became a saint or (b) they really are like that and make you feel bad about yourself. Your blog is really honest and you can see that you’re a wonderful mom who loves her children but is a HUMAN BEING.
Good luck to you with the pregnancy and the new baby to come…
I don’t mind if you blame the 4th one on me, lol. That’s a perfectly good thing to be blamed for 😉
Thank you for your sweet comments!
i was checking ur blog from time to time. So happy for your new addition as you have lovely family. Children are blessings.
So glad to see someone else living in chaos during this season!! Congratulations on your new baby!!
So wait. Where was I when you announced the new addition? Or did you just spring him on us? I have to go back and check (maybe I said congratulations but you’ve been quiet about it since and I forgot? Because my memory is shot and I started taking Ginkgo Biloba for it but I can’t remember to tak the dang pills.) Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS! Oh, how I crave another. Just one more. We always said 4 and I truly don’t want to go through life with this pining feeling, this if only feeling, this it’s all my husband’s fault feeling. Ugh.
Oh, the mess. It’s the break and the holiday and for us, pure laziness. I even took off work last Friday to try to give myself an extra day to the weekend to get stuff squared away by their return to school today. Um…no. I slept almost all day Friday.