What Did You Say?

Each week Drew's teacher focuses on a different letter of the alphabet. And when we are on our game we usually try to talk about words that start with that letter on Sunday night to help him prepare for the week. Recently the letter of the week was "F". I became a little nervous when Drew said, "I know an "F" word." Craig and I both looked at each other wondering how we were going to respond and then breathed a sigh of relief when his "F" word was fork. Phew! Or should I saw Few!

Timesheet

When I was working I had to complete a timesheet every week to report how much time I had spent on various projects so that we could bill the client appropriately. A few weeks ago I started to wonder what my new timesheet would look like. As I think about it, I technically bill 24 hours a day. Even if I'm sleeping I'm always on call, you just never know when Ryan (or any of the boys for that matter) will wake up in the middle of the night. And worse yet when someone is up sick in the middle of the night, I swear there is nothing worse than waking up to the sound of someone getting sick. Yuck!

I think I spend the bulk of my day billing time to meal prep, this includes the obvious - making the meal (3X/day), but cleaning up afterwards, loading and unloading the dishwasher and probably even planning and shopping for meal and of course feeding Ryan needs to be added to this area as well.

I think I spend almost as much time on laundry. Drew and Matt have hit a stage where they change clothes a few times a day and think everything needs to be washed. On a positive note they at least put their "dirty" clothes in their hampers so I can't really complain.

I'm trying to spend a decent amount of time working out, so a few days a week I'm billing time to being at Lifetime (our gym).

Then I spend some time on a guilty pleasure called Facebook and the internet - this isn't billable time, but does help me keep my sanity.

Then I'm not really sure where the rest of my time is spent but I know some of it is spread out between cleaning the house, playing with the kids, running errands, having the kids not listen to me, breaking up fights, getting everyone ready for school, dealing with a fussy baby and at least a weekly trip to the Motherland (AKA Target).

Guess I should get back to work and be billable!

My Bouncing Baby

Now that Ryan is rolling over (see next two posts) we are constantly rolling him back over as he doesn't know how to roll all the way over yet (just back to front). So in an attempt to actually accomplish something during the day I brought up the jumper-thing, I don't know what the real name for this is contraption, but that's what we call it. Needless to say, he LOVES it. He will literally spend an hour bouncing up and down. I've also got a short video of him in there, but I'll warn you you might be a little motion sick by the end. Check it out.

Two Minutes of Nothing

Ryan started to roll over around New Years so the other day I tried to document this milestone on video. Well I spent two mintues of video and got nothing, but for those of you who are bored at work or just want to watch a baby for a short period of time check out this video. And if you want to see a baby actually roll over then see the next post below. Happy watching.

The Roll Over

And here is the roll over caught on video. Enjoy!

I had no idea . . .

When I decided to stay at home I thought I had a pretty good idea of what my new life would be like, but now that I've been on the job for about 4 months, I've realized I had no idea what I was in for.

I thought I'd have a cleaner house (although someone warned me about that) which now makes sense as we are home so much more.

I actually thought I'd be bored and miss working, nope, not bored at all. And of course the project manager in me has created both a regular "chore" schedule in addition to a long to-do/wish list that will take me to retirement age. I haven't had time to miss work. And thanks to my beloved Facebook, I still feel very connected to the outside world.

I thought we'd go for more walks or visits to the park (heck the park is literally across the street). And I have to give myself a little slack here seeing Ryan was just born at the end of Aug. but I seriously thought we would have gone for more walks or visits to the park this fall, we barely did that this fall, but hopefully will make it out more easily this spring and summer.

I expected that I'd have a healthy dinner made and ready to eat by 6:00 each night. Boy was I wrong on this one. Seems as though the boys like to gang up on me around 5:00 each night all needing attention so sometimes our menu needs to change and often a frozen pizza becomes our dinner. Although I think I can honestly (and proudly) say that I have yet to serve the boys mac-n-cheese for lunch, but they have had their fair share of PBJ.

I never thought that I'd actually want to workout and am even more surprised how bummed I am when my weekly schedule changes and I can't work out. I am actually enjoying working out, I'm motivated to loose my baby weight this year, but have to be honest that one of my main reasons for working out on a regular basis is the opportunity to drop off the boys in the child care center and spend an hour for me.

I never dreamt that most days, even weeks, I wouldn't drive any farther than Lifetime (our gym), preschool and of course Target (these are all within 5 miles of our house). And on many of those days when I did leave the house I would be unshowered and often by choice - hey they say it is best not to wash your hair each day - right!?!

I wasn't 100% that I'd LOVE staying home, but knew it was the best choice for our family. Turns out I'm loving it!