Dun Dada Super Mom...

I've been feeling really down about how little I've accomplished as far as the move. Mondays are my days sans kids (until 4p). Mondays are also the day the cleaning lady comes. Today I asked my mom to come over too. I was bound and determined to live up to my standards of productivity.

Mike got the kids their breakfast and I stayed in bed an extra ten minutes. It was really thrilling. After the boys went out the door I took the opportunity to blog while Riley finished eating. Once breakfast ended I hit the ground running.

I let the cleaning lady in and packed Riley's whole book shelf and the rest of her closet. I had her load the boxes into my car. I told her my mom would be over to start laundry for me in about 20min and took Riley to day care. I dropped off Riley with all her best friends. She's such a big girl she walks from the car by herself now. (And she's not the only one her friends sleeping in beds now too).

I left her in more than capable hands and made off with a bunch of empty diaper boxes. After I left I raced off to the new house to drop the boxes off that I packed earlier. I checked in that everything was ok at home on the way. Obviously, I can't lift a box of books so I used my wheelchair like a luggage cart. I wheeled it up to the door and slid the box on and then pushed it into the house. Once I got them inside I unloaded them rather then try to get them off of the chair.

When I got home I sat down for a minute answering questions about laundry, etc from the couch. I was building a to-do list in my head when Mike messaged me to please call about transferring utilities and turning on internet. I made those calls and got everything squared away and then packed some more boxes of the kids' stuff. After that I took some baby stuff to consignment and donated some things. I also (with help from mom) returned our cable boxes and set up our disconnection at the old house. After that I swung by the hardware store for a copy of the house key and more rollers.

I was pretty pleased with myself when we got home. I folded laundry for awhile and then I started dinner while mom ran to get Isaac from his after school science program. By the time he got home dinner was ready and waiting. Bless his heart, he had standardized testing all day today. He had to sit still and be quiet from 8:30a until 2:50p which is not his strong suit. He still came in and got through homework, dinner and changing clothes with time to spare before TaeKwonDo.

We dropped off Isaac and went to meet Mike at the new house with his new key. He wasn't there when we got there so we decided to get Riley first. She was having so much fun she didn't want to leave. It was sweet. Normally, when she doesn't want to leave somewhere I say, "Hey, Riley do you want to go see Dada?" and she heads for the door as quick as her tiny feet can go. This time she said "no." Grandma had to carry her out the door.

We went back to the new house to let Mike in and unloaded the boxes we brought over. Riley's whole closet from the old house plus her book shelf fits in her new closet with room to spare. After a brief meeting about base board color in the family room I was off to get Isaac.

Somehow we managed to get everyone home and bathed and in bed on time. Before my mom left she informed me that we are a half load away from having finishing all the laundry in the house. Amazing.

Hurray, productive day! I felt like myself again, probably for the first time since I got pregnant. It was amazing. Maybe things will be better all around from now on or maybe I won't be able to move tomorrow...It was worth it either way.

After demanding my partner validate my accomplishments today. I have completed my post for tonight despite my computer freezing, restarting and turning itself off repeatedly and have began my mental list for tomorrow: change address with NetFlix, return library books, clean out Isaac's room, pack more boxes....etc.

I asked Mike when the day was when I got to take a nap while someone else packed/painted and watched the kids and he said, "I think you're thinking of May."