Writer's Block

I am in a funk, and I cannot seem to shake it. Many of you have requested updates and I figure I have no reason not to be completely honest on my blog, so here goes. Christmas was great with a side of grinchiness (mine). And you know the saying "I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." I think I woke up on the wrong side of 2009. We rang in the New Year with a stomach flu that hit each of us hard. During my turn I slept most of the night on the bathroom floor, cried every time I threw up and towards the end of the worst told Allen (my ICU RN), "I know you help really sick people everyday but I really think that I am gonna die. I'm gonna die!" I was just a tad dramatic! We have sooooo much to do - put away the Christmas decorations, pick up the chair cushion covers from the dry cleaners after being mercilessly puked on (the girls not the grownups), switch the clothes in the girls drawers to the correct sizes (I think that there are still some 3-6 mos outfits in Joli's bin and she'll be celebrating her 1st bday in a couple weeks!), and our basement! This project keeps me awake at night (thus the 12:10 am post) Not doing it but thinking about it. Our basement is filled with everything. Piles of toys, laundry, baby clothes the girls have grown out of/not yet grown into, years of A's school books, wrapping paper, photos, the list goes on and on! Every time we clean or organize upstairs the "not sure what to do with this" stuff ends up in the basement! It's a labyrinth to walk through and desperately needs about four days of my attention, four days I don't have. Don't have? you might think, as I am a stay at HOME mom but it's not a project I can tackle during the day when the girls are awake. And the conundrum begins. I don't have any energy (i.e. lazy) so I don't do the things around the house that I should, which ends up keeping me up all night thinking about said projects. Then I end up napping during the day because I am tired from the late night, missing out on the time I would have without the girlies around to do a project. Is anyone out there as annoyed with this as I am? I keep a list of 5 things that I NEED to do each day on my fridge - Read my Bible. Pray. Drink my H2O. Eat healthier and exercise. Only 5 things. Of those I'm pretty good with the praying and drinking water. I can't do 5 things each day!!! Gggggrrrrrrrrrr!! I don't have many good pics to post either. I didn't like the way our photo session went for our Christmas cards (see below), so we didn't have any made and I stopped taking many pics - the girls don't stay still. Like I said writer's block, a funk, wrong side of 2009. I'll update again when it's a bit better and I have some cute pics to post.



Looking how their momma feels :(