12 December 2015

Saturday

Last night was another rough one where I seemed to see every hour of the night - Titus was up every 2 hours and Felicity was up (almost on the hour mark!) in the middle of those two hours gaps.  So at 7:30am, I ruthlessly kicked everyone out of my bedroom (poor Simon as well - take the baby - I need to sleep), turned up the bedwarmer full-whack (I get to sleep faster when I'm warm) and heartlessly napped for a further 2 hours.  (Sorry-not-sorry...)  I emerged feeling newborn (it's sad when just 2 solid hours of sleep makes you feel like superwoman) and the whole day has gone much better as a result.  I had woken up because I thought I heard Titus crying - but when I came down, he was a happy little fellow - Felicity was playing with her zoo animals on the livingroom floor.  She then skipped up to the kitchen to show me all the painting and cutting that she and Simon had been doing while I was asleep.

And there was coffee......

It hit me this morning (after I woke up) that a surveyor is coming over sometime Tuesday to revalue our house (for remortgaging purposes after we had the loft conversion done.)  I don't think we need to do a 'property brothers' make-over before the visit, but it will help if the house is at least tidy, clean and presentable.  Oi vey.  I walked from room to room this morning, trying not to panic at the kid/Christmas/life-in-general carnage.

But I got the study and front guest room mostly tidy and the kitchen and laundry room aren't bad.  The livingroom will be easy to pull together.  Upstairs...hmmm.  How much stuff can I stuff under my bed out of the way?  (lol....like a teenager)  And the vacuum cleaner filters have needed cleaning for ages, so it all needs a good vacuum too.  But Simon did that tonight, so I can look forward to vacuuming the stairs and bedrooms tomorrow morning (at more sociable hours for the neighbors.)  And I'll put away all the laundry and hopefully clean the bathrooms before I go to bed tonight.  And then tomorrow we'll go out and get some ceiling paint to touch up the areas that have gotten stained from the roof leaks.  (The bank is more interested in the bricks and mortar of the house for purposes of remortgaging and we *dont* want it to show that we've had roof problems lately, even though we've obviously already gotten the roof fixed.)  And I'd like to go out and pick up the backyard while Simon's home to keep an eye on the kiddos inside.

The tricky thing is that tomorrow is also the church's nativity service and we're quite heavily involved in the afternoon.  It'll be great!  Always a good time.  Felicity's dressing up like a horse.  Titus will be a little fluffy bunny rabbit.  I'm playing fiddle and Simon's on the sound desk.  And we have a music rehearsal beforehand which will be nice to hang out with friends at.  Just less time for house chores.  (ha!  I'd much rather be at church than doing chores at home...)

  This has been more of a to-do list than a blog post.  But you can tell a lot about someone from their to-do lists!

My brain has been very busy with loads of other ideas and plans....some concerns.  It feels like a time of big transitions, even while everyday life here continues apace.  I feel like I have choices to make in the next few months/year that will make big impacts on the direction of how my life goes.  (Sorry, that's so teenage/angst-y to be almost cliche.)  I'm trying to sort out information and ideas to make good decisions while life seems to move so fast (hence the going-to-bed-later-than-is-really-good-for-me....after the kiddos are asleep is my thinking and processing (and cleaning) time.)

Some cute things Felicity has said - Friday I told her that my friend Michelle was coming over to have some coffee and 'talk about taxes.'  She cracked up and said, 'Taxes?  that's a funny place!' and I laughed and said 'No...taxes are money we give to the government.' and she cracked up again and said....'Well, that's a silly thing to do!  Funny Mommy!'  (LOL! and we both cracked up after that)

We maxed out my library card on Friday morning and I was about to leave several books when the librarian told me Felicity could have a children's card and have her *own* 12 books to check out.  (Woah! More books?  Oh yeah...)  You should have seen her face when I asked her if she wanted her own card.  lol  Her eyes went ginormous, she stuck out her tongue in a kind of excited-puppy-dog-when-it-pants-kinda-way, and nodded wordlessly....words failed her.  And I told her as we left...woah...you've got a library card (in my wallet, I hasten to add)....not even your Daddy has his own library card!
'Awwwww...' she said (surprising me with real sadness in her voice), 'I will share my card with my Daddy because he don't have any card at all.'

We visited Sophie this afternoon and I took Titus and the girls up to the shopping mall for a wee bit.  They were so excited by the christmas decorations!  And being together!  And AHHHH!  lol  The only time they disagreed was when Felicity told Sophie 'there is only one Elsa and I am Elsa.'  and Sophie said 'there is only one Anna and I am Anna.'  And Felicity immediately starts running away from Sophie....'Felicity!  Wait!  I am your friend Felicity!  Come back!'  and Felicity keeps dodging away (um, until Mommy intervenes and makes her hold onto Titus' pram)  'But Elsa *does* run away from Anna, Mommy.  I'm just playing Elsa.'  'Well.  She runs away in the beginning, but at the end of the movie, they are together ice-skating.  You can play Elsa at the end of the movie.  Not Elsa at the beginning of the movie.' And there was no more discussion or running away after that.  (Ha!  Go me and my ridiculous knowledge of Disney story-plots!  One for Mommy!)

Okay, I've written longer than I planned to.  I should go hit the laundry piles.  Wish me luck!