One Thing a Day

Did you notice my absence this past week?  No?  That's okay, we can still be friends.  I'm usually not that easily offended.  Yes?  Oh, how very kind of you to notice!  I've been doing a lot of vacuuming lately.  Not necessarily because my carpets need it, nor that I have excess energy I need to spend, but when I flip that switch on and start cleaning the carpets while holding my little Drummer boy, sleep swiftly takes him within 27.3 seconds flat.  It's to the point where I think it's so comical, I'll re-vacuum a room just to see it happen again.  Oh.  This boy.  He loves a good snuggle.  But, if you want to see an infant furious, you try to swaddle him with his arms down.  It makes him so mad.  Maybe he thinks he needs to have his dukes up to defend all these sisters he was born with.  If you want to see a momma furious, you just wake up that infant she spent all day trying to get to sleep for more than 10 minutes.  You really don't.

It was a good week.  I saw a new doctor and got some more answers about what is going on with this 6 post baby body of mine.  Answers are good.  The first step in becoming well again.  Another good thing?  I found my ipod that I convinced Ryan had been stolen months ago. Okay, so maybe he didn't ever really believe me, but I convinced myself that's what happened to it.  Turns out, it was in the glovebox in the car, you know, hiding it from someone who might want to steal it.  Do you ever do things like that?  I'm glad to have it back so I can play music in the house again.

I am behind on many things, which is okay.  I try to get at least one thing done each day.  Sometimes that's making the bed, or having warm cookies waiting for school girls to return.  I used to dread those after school hours when everyone has a million things they need done, but recently I love that time where we all sit down at the big round table and I nurse Drummer while they ask questions about their homework or tell me the exciting things of the day (like the ceiling fell down in another classroom--details were sketchy, but it did sound awfully exciting).  One thing I've neglected to do is pick and announce a couple of winners.  Remember when I had you guess the gender and other details of this birth?  Well, Kristin is the winner, guessing the correct birthdate, gender, and length!  She was off on eye and hair color, but had the least amount of points against her, so I will be sending some fun handmade items her way.

I also need to announce the random winner of the reader appreciation giveaway for the above bracelet.  It happens to be a fellow orange-aholic: 

So, that's my one thing today.  I might even get wild and make the bed, too!  Have a glorious weekend.