Week 4 Rollover Blues + Week 5: Office Rollovers

• Photos from our Christmas/6 months shoot arrived. I need to frame them and add them to our wall of fame along with a couple pieces of "art" I already have framed.
• Create and order Shaun's Valentine's gift, a photo book from Mypublisher.com. I got a code for a $10 book from The Today Show's "Jill's Steals and Deals!"
• Write in Logan's baby book for month 7 before he turns 9 months old!
• Transfer my cell's photos to my computer.
• Schedule 3 contractor quotes for my ever-growing list of home projects that I can't DIY.
• Schedule a haircut. and color!
• Bake quiches for the new mommas in my life. 

As for those nagging to-do's that continue to be pushed down the priority list...they once again were pushed to the bottom of the list. So, today is Monday and I am going to do what is left of this list.
Today, I am going to add frames to my family wall.

Today, I am going to order Shaun's Valentine's photobook.
Tonight, Shaun and I are going to write in Logan's baby book.
Tonight, I am going to bake and freeze quiches.
This afternoon, I am going to schedule my haircut and color.
This afternoon, I am going to schedule contractor quotes.

Week 5: Office Part Duex
Last week in Target I saw a cute apartment sofa and two ottomans.  I want to buy them and began to fill up the office. I also have rollover to-do's.

• Paint office chair legs.
• Make sawhorse desk.

Wish me better luck this week.

Week 4: Loose ends

This week is the week I finally cross off all those little nagging to-do's that keep sliding to the bottom of the list.
Last week, I stopped just researching playgroups and classes for my little man and I. I joined a playgroup and attended and I signed up for a Swim class. Our first class is this Thursday. Also, keeping the social train rolling, I'm going to my cooking club this Wednesday (it was cancelled last week due to the snow storm). On Friday, we're heading back out to the cabin. My parents had to leave for North Dakota yesterday, so they won't be there. Shaun and I are hosting a few friends to enjoy the snow and race the cross-country ski 50k.

Week 4:

• Photos from our Christmas/6 months shoot arrived. I need to frame them and add them to our wall of fame along with a couple pieces of "art" I already have framed.
• Create and order Shaun's Valentine's gift, a photo book from Mypublisher.com. I got a code for a $10 book from The Today Show's "Jill's Steals and Deals!"
• Write in Logan's baby book for month 7 before he turns 9 months old!
• Transfer my cell's photos to my computer.
• Schedule 3 contractor quotes for my ever-growing list of home projects that I can't DIY.
• Schedule a haircut. and color!
• Bake quiches for the new mommas in my life. 

Oh, it will feel so good to end the vicious cycle of to-do-this-week rollover of these pesky items.

Week 3: Resolve to Socialize

So, I finished up holiday cards-kinda-and this week I'm working on my resolution to join a playgroup and do ladies night biweekly.
On Tuesday afternoon, I joined 2 other moms for our very first playgroup. Well, expect their babies are 1 month and 4 months so there wasn't much playing. We're planning on meeting again next Tuesday. I also got in contact with a Mother Baby Swim class and I'll be attending on Thursday evenings! I think Logan will love it.
I also did a Ladies Night on Monday. Social Butterfly I am.
I'm now trying to get out to my families cabin where my parents are enjoying the snow, but that snow is car-razy and it is keeping me away.

Week 2: Project 2

Last week I de-cluttered my office. I moved things to storage. I threw things away. I shoved things in the closet. I now have the required workspace for working, but it is a far cry from a space I'd actually want to spend some time in. I did take a trip to the Home ReSource Center and Home Depot. I purchased spray paint for a little leg painting project I have up my sleeve. I also purchased two saw horses to make a trendy little desk. Alas, for another day (anyway I need to secure actual work to do within the workspace fist).

Week 2: This week I am going to finish sending out our Christmas Cards. Which now should just be referred to as Holiday Cards, or perhaps Winter Cards?
I'm also planning a little scouting trip to price out a new electric range and fridge!

Twenty-Twelve

As this is the place I come to attempt to hold myself accountable, it is only fitting that I declare my New Years Resolution unto thee.

·         1. Choose a project a week. 52 projects completed in 2012.

·         2. Recapture some of my pre-mom-ness. 

·         3. Date night once a week.

·         4. Ladies night twice a month.

·         5. Join Playgroup and attend once a week.

·         6. Initiate a lunch twice a month.
   

       Allow me to explain these all in more detail as we carry on and carry out these things to which I resolve.

      But first Week 1, Project 1. Drum Roll..........De-clutter the office and make it fully functional for office happenings.

      Go.

The Great Pacifier Debate

My husband I don't see eye-to-eye when it comes to many parenting decisions. And I love it that way. I am way less of the hippi-type mama I thought I'd be, but instead tend to read every book and blog and article I can get my hands on. Then I attempt to carry out some perfect combination of expert advice with pro-parent precision. Only setting myself, and my son, up to fail.
My husband on the other hand is much less absorbed into the "parenting" of parenting and instead just is a dad. He loves our little dude and tends to choose the path of least resistance. So, in our efforts to "train" our baby to become a "good" sleeper we all hit a wall. One morning nap he woke up and simply would not be consoled. I was crying, he was crying, and finally I plunked in his pacifier. *gasp And you know what, it worked. He slept and I continued to ball my eyes out at the epic fail I was until my husband found me at the kitchen table googling every possible combo of -pacifier -sleep -training -effects that I could think up. My hubs simply did not see what all the fuss was about. If it soothes our son and helps him sleep, big whoop. I, on the other hand, had been grooming our boy to become the world's best sleeper since he was just a few weeks old. No swings, no vibrations on his bouncy chair, set him down in his crib for naps, try to soothe him back to sleep with the least possible intervention and without picking him up when possible, and absolutely no paci expect to aide with napping when he was stuck in his carseat.
I tortured myself over our increasing use of the pacifier to assist with sleep. Then a quick call to my sleep lady and what do you know, Shaun was right. I was never so happy to be wrong. We now have a new, pacifier included, sleep plan that works for us. He now goes down "drowsy, but awake" with his binky. And I am over it. We are not weak for needing a little silicon nipple. And even if we are, we're happy.

Happy Birthday to my Mama turned Grandmama

My mom's pretty much the best. She thinks I'm endlessly funny, even when I'm not. She takes me on spa days and turns me into a lady that lunches. She can just think of a memory and begin to laugh unprompted. She's always, always supported every dream I've ever had and has even given me a pep talk or two, even when I would never admit that I needed one. Heck, she even moved her vacation dream home from "somewhere warm" to Montana, which I'm endlessly thankful for. Bottom line: she's fun and she loves my little man to the moon (and finds him endlessly amusing, even when he's not). What do you get a gal like that on her birthday? Enter Pinhole Press. You know that I have approximately 20 photos for every day that Logan has been on this earth and approximately 19 of them are worthy of higher ground than my computer files. I made my mom/grandma a calender starring her grandson. Everyone can expect photo books for Christmas, including a gift for myself.