or week, rather, it’s been here in BusyLand.
- Last night we left the house without any diapers in the diaper bag.*
- We have plenty of sandwich fixings and no bread.
- We have almost no gas in the car.**
- We’re so out of toothpaste that we finished up our old tube and are now on our second travel-size tube.
- We’ve had a commitment every night this week
- One of my friends felt pity on us while she was watching the Pea for a few hours and washed our dishes and cleaned our counters because she felt sorry for us. And I love her and am so thankful for her. But, oh thank God that that morning I had frantically removed the disgusting from cleaned the bathroom counter, because, oh I could not bear the shame if my dear wonderful friend had decided to do that for us as well.
- We haven’t eaten dinner at home for 15 straight days AND COUNTING.***
- Taylor and I are tired, busy, stressed and on very short fuses with each other. But we’re also pretty quick at apologizing and asking for forgiveness.
- We’re working on forbearing one another.
- We’re trying to maintain the bare minimum of clean.****
- We’re kind of excited about the three-day weekend, but we’ve got early morning commitments for the first two days and will probably make a trip up to see his family on Monday because we haven’t been up there since the last 3-day weekend (July 4).
But all we really want is one whole day (I’ll settle for a few hours, even) to sit around our apartment and be a family.
Maybe sometime in November. I’ll keep you posted.
*Fortunately, we were going to the house of a baby that is 3 weeks younger than the Pea and had all the baby things she could ever want.
**Or washer fluid, but that’s status quo for us.
***This is not because we’re all “I don’t want to cook, let’s go out! Tra La!” — it’s because we’ve had friends or family to see or have to get somewhere fast and don’t have time to cook and eat.
****Thank goodness the Pea isn’t crawling yet, or she’d have eaten her weight in dust bunnies and old food crumbs.
