Hectic Life

This is a picture of my kitchen during dinner prep time tonight.



I had all 4 burners going, the broiler, and I was holding Kelly during most of it. Work nights have been so crazy with Kelly needing to be held or nursed and me rushing to cook for the kids before we haul ass upstairs for bath and bed (and all the procrastinations that go along with the night time routine). Today was a home day so I made 2 dinners for tonight and tomorrow night so that I don't have to kill myself tomorrow night.

Kids went to bed at 8pm tonight. It is now 10:30pm and I'm just finishing up and getting ready to sit down to fold laundry and try to watch 1 quick How I Met Your Mother (watching the whole series from Season 1 to present on Lifetime for the last 6+ months...awesome show). I have done the following in that time:

• All the dinner cleanup including pots & pans for tonights and tomorrow nights dinner
• 2 loads of laundry
• Paperwork for Kindergarten (crazy how many forms there have been so far and it's only Day 2!)
• Lunch making for me and the kids for tomorrow
• Cut up and froze some extra corn from the CSA I had cooked and didn't cook the other 6 ears I got this weekend at the Cape. Cut up a cantelope too as it would have started to turn soon.
• Cleaning up the playroom and dining & living rooms from today
• Some email correspondence planning for a family party this weekend (Kellys baptism!) and another family party I'm hosting next month (the weekend after the new Block Party, by the way - AM I INSANE?)
• Garbage
• Pumped (Kelly is still waking up ~3 times per night...I've done some Ferber and today I just stuffed her with food and a big bottle of formula before bed. Must Get Sleep)
• Sent myself 5 emails to work with reminders to make calls, etc
• Listened to 1/2 of todays Howard Stern show

Off to stare at Sons of Anarchy taping which I can't watch b/c Joe is at the Red Sox tonight with his brother. I'm DYING to start this show up again. If you haven't seen it, rent Season 1 and start taping Season 2. Awesome show. Edgy, good writing, hot main guy, on FX so they show a lot. Love this show.