Climbing the Mountains…

…everyday it seems I have all these mountains of housework that I need to climb through. 

Yesterday I climbed three.

I had a mountain of papers that I needed to sort through stacking up on my barstool, threatening to crash land all over the kitchen floor if I put even just one more piece of paper on the pile!

I was able to throw about 90% of the pile straight into the recycling bin, so WHY was it stacking up making my kitchen look cluttered??

Next I had a mountain of dishes to do—this picture is the SECOND round of dishes for the day.  I’d previously unloaded and loaded the dishwasher already and this was what didn’t fit in there.  Lots of baking dishes since I was making some healthy snacks (more on that tomorrow!)

And lastly, a mountain of laundry to fold!!

I vowed never to do ALL the laundry in one day after the baby was born, but rather a load or two every day which is much more manageable.  However, this is actually SEVERAL days of laundry that just never got folded!! GAH!!  I got behind and now it’s become a mountain.  This doesn’t even show the 2 loads that were still in the washer and dryer!! 

Try as I might, these three things never ever are completely gone and done…there’s ALWAYS papers to put away, dishes to do and laundry to fold!

At least I’m learning to give and take with my time these days.  These are things I can let slide every so often if I need some much needed ME time!  I just kind of miss how these simple things used to be so easy to plow through and now it takes me ALL day to do them…or worse, all week!  And then I have to start over again!  GAH, death by housework!

I think I’ll go watch TV now.

why I don’t cook dinner anymore

he’s mad because I made him come inside the house from playing outside so I wouldn’t have to worry about where he is anymore.

and REALLY mad that I started taking pictures of him crying {& fake-crying}

and he’s just mad because he’s always mad between 5 and 9. 

it’s not colic, he just can’t seem to stay happy (or even content!) for more than 10 minutes at a time.  he’s not a great eater, and he’s a terrible day-sleeper.

needless to say, I’ve only made dinner a few times in the last 7 weeks.

And if it takes longer than 30 minutes to make—forget it! 

the end.

Recovered Baby Bouncer

I was tired of the cover on the baby bouncer.

Since my baby spends a lot of time in it and I also take a lot of pictures of Sam when he’s in it, I decided to make it more comfy and more cute!

Before and during

And After.

Basically the it’s just a slipcover with lots more batting underneath it! It’s not totally done, since I still have to make the straps go through it, but done enough for a picture!

Baby is nice and cozy!  You are getting verrrrry sleeeeepy…..

A little Pie for Pi

I think it is so fun to make a pie for Pi day (3.14)

This year, unfortunately, I don’t really want a huge yummy pie staring at me when I’ve just started trying to lose the baby weight! 

So I will stare at this lovely picture of a yummy pie instead!

I bet you want some pie now, too, huh?!