The Chaos

A few of the goings on in my house:

• Laundry in literal piles all over the house. Most of it is clean, some of it is not. It is mixed up and unfolded and generally driving me mad. My awesome, sweet mommy fixed this for me last night. She also watched my kids and got my Benj back to sleep after his teething-induced crying jag.
• Cleaning lady turned her education into a bonafide job after 6 months of searching. Yay for her, but boo for us because we have drywall dust and dog hair everywhere and no one to clean it up. Well I guess we could, but it's crazy around here, no joke.
• We were supposed to take a Christmas photo of the whole fam this weekend in scenic Vail. Never happened. Need to do it and then get the cards mailed. Like soon. Luckily thanks to snow and freezing temps, it is scenic here too if bloody cold.
• The basement needs painted like now so our contractor can finish. We (and my dad and sister, mom watching kids) made a good start on it the last two nights. All of the ceilings, except the stairs and both big rooms have their first coats. But of course, there is a ways to go still.
• Christmas shopping is about 50% done … maybe. And that is all thanks to the beauty of the internets. I have bought about 4 things from actual stores and I thought I'd go insane every time I had to do so. So yea, kinda behind.
• Tile for bathroom is on a ship making its way from Italy to Florida, supposed to arrive today. Receiving company only ships on Thursday (?!) … will they ship today or the following Thursday?? Who knows?! No one, apparently.
• We finally have a working home computer again. Cuz I really wanted to spend $700 right now. At least Matt is very happy with it and I can get him back to scanning paperwork and earning his keep (ha!).
• Garage door is still broken because I don't really want to spend another $500 right now. Negative temps make closing manually even more fun than usual.
• Ben is cutting teeth and cranky as hell about it. He usually barely wakes up at night to have his bottle but two nights ago, he replaced that with an hour-long screaming fit. Had another, shorter one last night. I even tried Jack. Not sure if it helped or not.
• I have not been to the gym since LAST Thursday and have not run since Friday. This is not good at all.
• Have had a couple more terrible headaches, likely stress-related. Do NOT enjoy these.
• Have holiday festivities and other miscellaneous events pretty much every single Friday and Saturday from here 'til New Years. Also need to figure out how to fit in a visit to Zoo Lights.

I will love the basement when it's done. I will love the basement when it's done. I will love the basement when it's done. Thank God we have such great help around here. No clue how we'd do it otherwise.