Cross-posted and archived from DC Metro Moms. Original post date April 23, 2008.The birds are chirping. The windows are open and the pollen is making its way inside my own home. What's that you say? It is time for what? Oh right. The inevitable urge I get this time each year to go all crazy lady on my house and my yard. Everything must be new! Everything must be organized! Everything must be clean, fresh and tidy! Skedaddle you dust bunnies! Be gone weeds or is that weed be gone?This year I am a bit behind. The prolonged, never-ending feeling of sickness has been pervasive in my house since I creeped into my seventh week of pregnancy. Now almost at the end of the first trimester it still drags me down into its afternoon nap time abyss. The act of unloading or loading the dishwasher … [Read more...]
Wall Snot & Dust Bunnies
I don't know how it's possible but I'm nesting. Already. I'm barely four months pregnant and I can't stop organizing and cleaning. My perfume is no longer French gardens after a monsoon but vinegar and earth-friendly toilet cleaner. One day I'm ripping apart The Comedian's closet or sending TD under the crib to retrieve lost baby socks and the next I'm wiping snot off of the walls. Yeah...no one tells you just how disgusting kids can be, do they? I mean dirty diapers, the spitting up you are prepared for, but wiping nose gremlins off your four year old's bedroom wall? That's just not something I thought I would ever have to do or use a putty knife to do it. Did I mention the crusted milk I removed from each and every slat on The Comedian's crib? Yup. I scraped that off … [Read more...]