What's New?

We got another foster baby girl a few weeks ago. She's one years old and into everything! I have to say, I look forward to her two naps a day just so I can clean up the messes she makes.

We've had a wave of sickness go through our house in the past two weeks, also. I started out with a stomach bug, Baby came with a cold, passed it on to her brother, he passed it on to me....and that's where it's at for now. As soon as I feel better I'm going to disinfect the entire house. During naptime most likely.

One strange thing that's been happening since we got the baby, is that I'm working on my novel every day. I usually sit down anywhere from 1-3 times a day and write. I'm not exactly sure how I'm accomplishing this considering I have the two kids, work, and a lot more going on, but it's happening. I'm up to 5k words and look forward to sitting down to write every day. One of the big things that's helping me along this time is the notecard outline I did following the Save the Cat! method. I know exactly where I'm going and what scenes I need to write. I'm not anal about it though. I have no problem changing scenes around, adding or scrapping scenes, or changing them all together. But the outline gives me an idea of what I should be thinking about writing next when I'm done for the day.

Well, I'd better finish cleaning up so I can relax before nap time is over. Funny how nap time ends much quicker than it comes.

I Wish I Were Lazy

If I were lazy things would be so much easier. I'm sure I'd do a lot more of the things I want to do (like write) than everything else (like clean and organize).

We were supposed to get hit with a huge snowstorm over night, and instead only got about four inches. Schools shut down last night in preparation, and our cleaning jobs moved to the following day. My husband and son were all for staying snowed-in, watching movies and playing video games. It sounded like fun to me too, until I woke up to only four inches.

Now I want to go out and do stuff. I don't know what stuff, but just...stuff. Maybe the library? Return the movie I watched last night (Catfish...so good!)?

I slept in this morning until 10:30. My husband and I take turns sleeping in on the weekends. Last weekend I let him sleep in both days, so today was my turn. When he wakes up the house is all clean and put together. When I wake up, it's a mess.

I already mentioned (me) going out and he said he thought we were all staying home. So, now I'm trying to think of some things I can do around here. Like finish cleaning out the playroom after yesterday's mouse-in-the-toilet incident that made me lock the playroom door for the rest of the day for fear I'd open it to thousands of mice.

I think I'll make some crafts with my five year old and work on a little homeschooling. Maybe by then I can sneak out to the store or something.

If only I were lazy and liked to watch tv during the day...