Messy Monday

I will start by saying we had an amazing Easter weekend. My little man loved being around family and going crazy at Grandma and Grandpa's house. We do our best to baby proof over there....but its hard. So my Mom and I are tired from chasing a 17 month old around a house all weekend {not to mention trying to avoid tripping over one of the four dogs that were in the house} My son didn't quite grasp the Easter egg hunt this year, he loved to find the eggs and open them, but didn't know why we kept telling him to collect them in the bucket {what good to him were these empty eggs?} I even had a special Sponge Bob Easter basket for him to put the eggs....but nope, I ended up holding that. After a busy weekend away from home you would think there wouldn't be a huge mess on Monday, but somehow there was. I pretty much took the weekend off from my job as a maid, and wow it is a mess in here. Actually was a mess, I have tackled most of it but still need to finish Laundry and as always there is always more to clean. I even moved some furniture today, and I didn't even break anything...well I broke a bookcase, but I was throwing it away anyway so that doesn't count. We got a great new storage thingy for our kitchen from my parents and for it to fit where I wanted it {which was actually in a house, but that hasn't happened yet} I needed to move our wine rack, which I figure was a good idea anyway.{before my 17 month old figures out how to get the wine out.} So I now have a bar in my master bedroom {yay} it actually looks nice, it is the same dark wood as our bedroom furniture, and our bedroom is huge {unlike the rest of the apartment} so it fits nicely. I should mention all the fun my husband and I had getting this very heavy new piece of furniture into the apartment. Of course I was doing it all wrong {can a wife ever lift something correctly?} but somehow with lots of pushing, lifting, and bickering we made it up the three flights of stairs. By that point I was done and left the mess for morning. I have also decided when we move we will be hiring movers, there is no way I am helping move all of our heavy stuff down all those stairs.{I'll start a piggy bank to pay for the movers} Now that most of the cleaning is done I need to fix another problem, the empty fridge. Well, its not empty, we have milk, hard boiled eggs {colored of course}, and tons of condiments. But I figure if I wanted to make any healthy meals this week I will have to get my butt to the store. Usually I would decide to go late, after my son is in bed, but tonight that is not an option. My husband has two softball games and will not be home until after 11, and I do not want to shop that late. So I will be headed off to the store with my little man to help.....this will be fun. I am also bummed because there were no coupons in the Sunday paper, do they think people don't go shopping the week after Easter? So I had to be very thrifty in combing  food I have and coupons I have saved to make a list that will hopefully be under 100 bucks, that's the goal anyway. I will head out on my journey after nap time. And we'll have to walk the dog again, and avoid the crazy old lady {if my dog barks at her she tells me she is going to call animal control, I told her go ahead, and I reminded her that dogs bark.} I really need to move, I can't stand apartments. ...uggg. And I actually decided today that I will start packing, this will make me feel better. I will only pack things I hardly use and won't miss for awhile, but just getting things organized and ready to get out of this place will cheer me. {I think the last encounter with the crazy dog hater pushed me over the edge} So I will clean and pack and hopefully buy some food today. And in the middle of all that I will be Mommy, which will always come first.

Kelly Callahan