I am definitely grateful for Dae's job and how hard he works. It gives us a lot of financial freedom and eliminates a lot of worry, and he likes his work.
However, sometimes his job really sucks (haha!). The past two weeks Leelee has been on winter vacation so it has been kids at home all day, every day and for the most part it has been me and the kids (I did work a couple of days, and Dae was home a couple of days as well). It's always a challenge to find stuff to do to occupy their time, besides the option of placing them in front of the TV to watch Caillou 50 times in a row (which is tempting, and if they didn't get antsy after about 4 episodes, I probably would!). Last weekend Dae got called in for most of the weekend, day and night. So it was me and the two little fellas and what felt like Groundhog's Day. Full days with no school, trying to come up with who knows what activity. Trying to feed the kids 3 solid meals without going the easy route of eating out, changing diapers, breaking up fights, cleaning up toy after toy, crying, tantruming, time-outs, dishes, cleaning up the floor after meals, brushing teeth, reading books, bedtimes, putting on outfits, socks, shoes, hats, jackets, doing laundry ad nauseum, wiping mouths, wiping bottoms, pouring milk into sippy cups 1000 times a day, grocery shopping, and trying to pack for our move. I am done.
At 9 am this morning, kids went to daycare for 5 hours and I felt no guilt. In fact, I was telling Dae that if it weren't for the gym I would probably have gone insane. The exercise, combined with up to 2 hours of childcare, were a lifesaver!
Following is a montage of snapshots of the house today. Kind of gross, and hard to believe this is what it looks like with a housecleaner who comes regularly!
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| Doesn't look so bad, right? Well, it was breakfast. And the photo was taken at 1:30pm. |
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| The floor is always dirty with crumbs. It was way dirtier than this pic showcases. We need a dog! |
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| Dishes - the bane of my existence. |
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| Boxes are just starting to come into play. We are moving in 3 months but I want to go the slow-and-steady wins the race route. |
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| Dae's corner monstrosity |
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| My closet horror. |
That's it, folks! All our dirty laundry, aired. haha.
Aren't you glad this is only a phase?.. :) In no time (16 years), the boys will be out of the house to collage and you probably will miss this "chaotic" life you once had! Haha!
ReplyDeletewell it's also because you are moving so less motivation to have everything in it's place
ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping it real. It's nice to know that other people live in the same chaos! We are getting ready to put our house on the market... be thankful you don't have to keep yours clean while you anticipate the move.
ReplyDeleteughhh...it looks familiar. Hang in there!! xoxo
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