Week 3 of 2016

1/11/16-1/17/16

I’m a day late and a dollar short this week. Sorry! It hasn’t been a super productive week, but you can’t be busy every week.  Robert is learning to make noises and has started “talking” to us quite a bit. It’s pretty adorable.  He’s also working on different cries.  He smiles when we say “ma ma ma” and “da da da”. Couple that with whistling and he seems to be a pretty happy little baby.

Here’s the brief rundown of my week:

• Monday – Work again. Good to be home after work. Tacos for dinner, Chicken tacos! Yum. Kendall and Allie came over to watch football.  Adam and I snuggled. Went to be super early. Straightened the top of the bookshelf in the living room, cleaned front windows of spray on snow.  Dennis took down the Christmas lights outside and I deleted a lot of email today.
• Tuesday – Work, class grind for Tuesdays. Forgot vitamins. Deleted over half of the emails in my work email.  I joined a website to get free environmentally-friendly items.  Deleted more emails from my exercise folder. Went to class. I’m excited about what I will be learning and sharing in class this session.  Watched a movie in class. Car is fixed so the rental goes back tomorrow.  Robert gave Dennis a really hard time tonight. Poor Daddy and baby.
• Wednesday – work again. It seems to be a theme in life. Ha ha ha! Got pulled over on the way to work. Guess I should stop doing the California roll through stop signs. Whoops! I received a warning since my driving record is impeccable! Work was uneventful and for that I am honestly thankful. I cannot imagine working at a place where every day is a new disaster.  Students make me giggle almost daily and I like that. I think that is a big reason why I like my job.
• Thursday – another day at work. Uneventful both at home and work.
• Friday – Went to work at the high school, came home to run some errands, went to work at the Y. Sadly its payday and we are beyond broke because unemployment screwed him over. Apparently a waiting week is now 10 days. I’m guessing that’s 10 business days since they don’t typically count weekends. That’s two business weeks, not one. Thanks, jerks. Now we’re screwed.  Thankfully some friends loaned us a little bit of money to help us through this rough time. Dennis and I have talked and we are going to start a savings account so we don’t run into this problem again next year.  It’s been beyond rough this season. Dennis got to participate in an improv show and had a good time.  He’s decided to take a break from performing because of our schedules right now. I hope he can return soon so he can get out of the house at least once a week.
• Saturday – it was a nice lazy morning at the Y. Basketball season is in full swing and parents (including myself) have had a difficult time reading the basketball game schedule.  Now that it’s figured out, perhaps I won’t be bombarded with calls in the morning.  I finished another letter in my filing project.  I was super lazy at work.  I got home, spent time with family, took a nap, picked up Amanda from work, and came home to spend more time with family. Kendall and Allie came over again for football. Kendall left very upset because his Chief’s didn’t pull off a win. Then again when you’re playing against the cheating Patriots, what can you expect?
• Sunday – Ahhh, lazy Sunday strikes again! We hung out at home together all day.  I watched Lie to Me and MasterChef Jr. before Dennis took over the TV for football. During the second game Adam, Dennis and I all played Life together.  It was a good time. The little one slept in his swing while we played.

I haven’t done too much with the 31 days to get organized since the bulk of the challenges are things I have already done or they don’t apply to me.  I did delete well over 100 emails this week, I did fill up my pinterest boards with some recipes and exercises.  Now to incorporate those into daily activities. Baby steps, right? Speaking of recipes, I tried a salmon recipe this week. It was delicious! Adam even enjoyed it. The recipe was a brown butter with garlic sauce glazed salmon. Yummo! We had that with couscous and peas. I really like that Adam is trying food that he thinks he won’t like and then ends up liking them.  I think that will help him later in life.