It hasn’t been overly busy lately, but I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to get back into some of my old routines (before wedding planning and other things took over). Things like walking on my treadmill (I’m in the process of watching ‘Good Will Hunting’), getting back into a routine with my kids, etc. It’s not the exact same routine – it’s so awesome to have a husband who will start supper if he gets home before you, help put the kids to bed, load the dishwasher. I am truly thankful for these things because I know so well what it’s like to have to do it all myself.<\/p>\n
I’m also trying to make more space for the ‘invasion’. Leighton is still moving stuff over from next door (the last roommate doesn’t move out until sometime in September). I spent all of last Saturday dealing with my storage room. We had moved all the kids’ toys over there so the old toyroom could become the ‘man-cave’ (a guy needs his personal space). I removed 5 garbage bags of toys and stuffed animals. I let the kids go through the bags once I was finished the elimination process to see if there were things they wanted to keep. I was anticipating the “it’s all special to me!” thing and ending up keeping half the toys I had packed away, but the boys were surprisingly good about it – they only took less than one armful each. I was really impressed. Tomorrow I’m tackling the boys bedrooms – we still have a dresser and desk to move over. We plan on putting the desk in my oldest boy’s room and moving his smaller desk into his little brother’s room. Wish me luck (I can’t see the floor in my oldest son’s room).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"