Spring is actually on its way here. Most of the snow is gone. It’s still cold outside but the sun really helps. It’s warm in the backyard, which gets a lot of sun. I’ve been able to open up the second floor of our house a couple of days this week. I opened the office window (on the bottom floor) yesterday but today the air was too chilly for me.
The children are loving being outside though, and I’m loving them being outside! It gives me some peace. Right now parenting has gotten overwhelming so it’s a relief to let them be outside. Today they are enjoying playing with sidewalk chalk. And Scott has given them the task of keeping the sticks in the yard picked up. As soon as the rest of the snow is gone from the front yard we’ll be able to rake some of the leaves up – they’ve been sitting there under the snow since the fall. There’s only a tiny bit of snow at all in the back yard.
I am tired today. Didn’t get a nap yesterday and I’ve worked hard yesterday and today. I finally got this blog where it’s supposed to be – http://blog.naturalbirthandbabycare.com – and I’m so happy about that. Change your bookmarks! I’m still working on getting links to it integrated into the main Natural Birth and Baby Care.com site and you can see that the look and feel is quite different from the blog to the main site. That will probably be the case for awhile. I don’t forsee the time to do a redesign of the blog or the main site before summer comes. But I am working on the blog little by little as well as the site.
I’m still trying to do spring cleaning which is challenging, to say the least, when I still have a lot of nausea going on. I’m really hopping this will end soon. But I’ve gotten much of the office done (though it’s getting cluttered again and I need to work on that). I’m working on the kid’s room now. My current secret is to get everything that doesn’t belong in the room OUT. Then I organize what’s left that actually goes there. This means my office is pretty clean (except for the hamper because we can’t figure out where to put that…). It also means the landing upstairs is piled high with “stuff.” But I like this strategy because I actually see results. The front rooms (our dining room and den which kind of connect together) have also stayed pretty clean.
We’re going to order a little bookshelf for the kids and some closet organizing things soon. I’m waiting to get the kid closet clean so I can decide what components of the organizer I want, then we’ll do that. I think it will improve the organizing situation for both the den and the closets.
So spring cleaning and nesting. And sprucing up my websites a bit. A nice pastime for this season. I’m just hoping I’ll have more energy to accomplish all of my goals soon. Our little Peanut sure tuckers me out.
