Mindy's Non-Adventures

    Today was really the most GLORIOUS day! If only everyone could have as beautiful day as mine, the world might be a happier place. My wonderful husband made this day possible by keeping our kids and not calling me every 5 minutes to find when I'm coming home. Since he was gone to Hawaii for two weeks (still not bitter. Really.) and he's going on another 2 week trip this fall, he promised me a weekend of my own.  After looking at our calendars, we realized this weekend was our only free one until...well...next year? I didn't want to actually go anywhere, so I gave myself a stay-cation.     Now please don't think me too shallow. In all seriousness, I'd been waiting for an opportunity like this weekend for awhile. I needed a chance to regroup. Over the last many months, I'd let myself drift back into crisis mode. I'd let the urgent take priority over the important which led to half of my important things becoming urgent AND important.  The other ...

Mr. Inc comes home tomorrow after being in Hawaii for 2 weeks. I'm not bitter. Really!  The two weeks has reminded me what it's like to handle this parenting gig on my own. I used to do it all the time.  I had the routine down pretty well, but I've been spoiled by actually having my husband home every day for the last year and a half. So here's what I've learned or been reminded of in the last two weeks. 1. The "Go ask your dad" card is very useful and under appreciated.  A couple of times I started to say, "That's your dad's department..."  then realized NOPE. That's my issue this week. Yeah. 2. Things will break when the family fixer person is gone. The computer mouse stopped working. Light bulbs burned out. I swear I was just waiting  for a flat tire or dead battery. 3.BBE does NOT like his routine to be completely uprooted. Daddy being gone turns BBE into BAT-man (Below Average Toddler). 4.It took about a week to get into ...

Today pretty much made up for last week's...issues. ;)  My friend very graciously offered to keep my kids at her home from 9:30am-2pm.  I was home alone by 10am.  Do you know how RARE that is?!?  If you have kids, how often are you at home alone? Maybe this happens more often for you than for me, but I can count the times on one hand. It just doesn't happen.  So this is how it went. I walked in the door, and it was quiet. Shhhhhhhhh.  Quiet is a rare and beautiful thing. I sat down at  my computer for a couple of minutes to enjoy the peace and decide what one project I was going to focus on.  Then I might have done a few ungraceful leaps through the living room...and...maybe reenacted that Tom Cruise scene from Risky Business...What can I say? I was home alone! Anyway, after I got the above out of my system, I decided to fix our bedroom.  I've tried to fix the disaster our bedroom has become for months, but I needed a large block of uni...

   Mr. Inc is currently half-way through his "work" trip in Hawaii. Work gets quotations because he's in Hawaii. It may officially be called work, but any work that takes place in Hawaii is like playing house or store.  You call it work, but really it's just a fun, light, activity that you have to do until you're free to go to the beach.  Unless you actually live there. THEN you can call it real work.     So I thought this would be the perfect week to have my sister visit with us, rearrange some furniture, tweak my school plans, catch up on a few projects that I've had sitting around, and add one more project because I just didn't have enough planned for the week. Honestly, I need an intervention when it comes to setting goals. I'm terrible at it! You already know where this is going.  My sister is super easy to have, but an extra person changes the relational dynamics between the kids. In other words, BBE wasn't getting so much attention anymore...