Tuesday Chat!

[younglove316]

Busy day full of cleaning and packing for us today and I have absolutely zero motivation to get up and start doing anything. We leave tomorrow morning though so it has to get done.

I hope everyone has a great day!

[oreobitsy]

younglove316, good luck getting it all done today! I hear you on the motivation side... I have gotten lax in my clutter and have no desire to do anything about it.

DH is out of town again and he gets back tonight. Usually the nights he is gone I catch up on shows I like or reading, but both kids were needing me until 9ish last night. I stayed up too late watching them and am a little tired this morning. Now that I type that and see it, 9:00 is not that bad haha. We just had a long day with some tantrums and I was so looking forward to me time at 8 on the dot.

If anyone is looking for a fun book, I just finished Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. It's a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice. I like the author and always enjoy a new spin on things. 

[penguin129]

We stayed up way to late last night after we got home from the beach watching Orange is the New Black. H got up with DD this morning and let me sleep in until 10:45. It was nice. We have to pick up a car load of stuff from H's parents and get some more paint before we move forward with out painting project. The planning is harder than I thought it would be.

[brachysira]

younglove316, hate those no motivation but long pressing list days! A lot of those here lately. Good luck!
oreobitsy, 9PM with no help is very late! I recall being at the grocery store at 11 PM or so and seeing people with kids when I was pre-kid, and I was always like, how can everyone be functional at 11 PM?
penguin129, we have been up late watching Sherlock and now some kind of USA network computer hacking show that is very good but graphic. But I am always worse for it in the morning.
forevermorgan, cherry picking! How fun. Is it easy? Sounds like a good afternoon too.

We went to storytime at the children's garden today, but my almost 2 year-old son was not having it. Then he fell a couple times when we were playing after and has a bad skinned knee. DD had made friends and was having fun but I assumed DS needed a nap so I made her leave, but then DS perked up. I planned to take him to the store while DD was in school, but he just cried on the way home, so I thought I'd better let him nap. But in bed, he cried and cried.. So now he is in bed in the dark with the i-pad. I hope he's not sick, but he has a bad runny nose, so maybe I should take him in...camping this weekend but rain predicted and now a sick baby.

[penguin129]

brachysira H is a bad influence on me. I was ready to go to bed at 1230 and he convinced me to stay up for one more. Part of being the wife of a teacher on summer break I suppose. To bad DD didn't get the message that we're on break.

[brachysira]

forevermorgan, we have done blueberry picking and my DD was very good at it and had fun. We did apple picking with short trees, which she liked, but it was really too hard for her since a lot of the apples were bad or not ripe and it was hard for her to get a good angle to evaluate. I once did raspberry picking myself, but I feel like it was harder than blueberry picking--maybe just because the bushes were kind of picked over. I do not recall hearing of any cherry picking around here...I know our state grows cherries. I'll have to investigate.

[younglove316]

I just found out a place near us does cherry picking so I think we are going to try it out. I'm really excited to try some of this stuff with DD1 this year.

[oreobitsy]

Fruit picking is such a great activity -- great idea! I'll have to see what we have. I know strawberry season is relatively short, but my mouth is watering just thinking of freshly picked berries.


forevermorgan, The kitchen island seems likes it worth a shot to fix up. What is the counter surface on the one from your friend? Our kitchen is a small, so I will I'll have to live vicariously through anyone with ample counter space.

[younglove316]

oreobitsy we also have a small kitchen with a lack of counter space. When they built this house for whatever reason they left an entire big wall completely empty. We keep saying that someday we will update.