Getting Back On Track

Today I got up and actually did some chores out of that chore notebook I made months ago. I loaded up all of the breakfast dishes into the dishwasher and ran it. Then I shined my sink and wiped down the cabinets. Did I mention that I also got dressed and made the bed? Since then, Mom and I have printed out recipes from the recipe site I subscribe to and put them into a notebook. I've also been re-vamping my chore notebook to be a bit more realistic as to how things happen in my home. I've done one page of kitchen inventory. I'm hoping to get that done this week so I can more throughly rotate stock as it needs to be rotated. I'm also going to put up the load of baby clothes I folded yesterday. I kinda came to an awareness today. I'm about to be a mom. Beyond that, my mom isn't going to live with me forever. And having her here is wonderful, but I'm just being lazy a lot. When she's gone, if I don't clean it, it probably won't get done. elvnsword works full time and while it is ok to ask him to take out the trash or the recycling, expecting him to do all the chores and work full time is unreasonable. At the same time, childcare is a full time endeavor too. I foresee lots of negotiations on this topic in our future but having a routine for myself and learning to do chores myself again will certainly help a lot regardless.

She and I had been talking last week about how things would work when we lived in our own houses with me paying her to help me clean my house. I basically pay her enough for ten hours of cleaning a week (at a rate of about $10 an hour). That means that I need to figure out which things she can most help with and ask her to do those things during the week. I suspect it is going to be things like doing a catch up load of laundry or two and running a mop over my floors. I know that I have grand aspirations of how clean I would like my house to be and even grander ideas of how much cleaning I myself can and will do. So having lots of wiggle room is good and having someone come over for two hours a day when I have a little is a blessing and a boon. It may be that what I really need is someone to watch the kidlet, maybe load the dishwasher or fold some diapers so that I can get a good solid nap in the afternoons.

But I'm feeling better about myself and more motivated to clean things. I'm not sure where this is coming from. This may be nesting...Hmmm...have to think about that. For now, I'm going to go put my seed starting discs in to soak and try to figure out which seeds I want to plant the earliest. Blessings everyone.

Seeds In

So...carrots, lettuce, radishes, spinach and tomato seeds are all in place. I'm going to put the herbs in place after dinner tonight. I've got my little greenhouse indoor thing set up. I also put some marigold seeds in there so that I can get them in to attract bees too. I have some snap dragon seeds that I'm going to sow when it gets a bit warmer. We got our tax return today too! So I put the largest chunk of it onto a credit card. And I'm going to start ordering some of the baby stuff I really need soonish I think. I want to get it all in so I can use it but I don't want to order everything and give the people who are not local no chance to send everything. How long should I wait I wonder? I only have a month left on my due date and I seriously doubt that I'm going to make it all four weeks. It takes two weeks for most things ordered online to get here. Hmmm. I suppose I should order those things I really need and only get one of them, that way I have some to use but if I get more, no problems. And I can order more if I don't get more too.