The Motivator

I still talk to my best friend since 2nd grade, we actually talk once or twice a week, for several hours at a time. How can we have so much to talk about? I have no clue. But we talk during chores, we take eachother to the bathroom (I know, gross, but her and Sailor are the only ones I'll keep talking to if I have to pee...and I always warn her first), etc. For some reason, when we talk, I get motivated to clean. We'll talk about what chores we need to do for the day, and we'll often do our dishes together.

Anyway, she called yesterday to let me know how her appt went on Tuesday (she's pregnant and due on Feb 15). I had several goals yesterday, and was able to reach ALL of them while we were talking. I cleaned my shower and bathroom counter, vacuumed both bathrooms (I cleaned Princess's bathroom the day before), loaded and ran the dishwasher, put Sailor's uniforms in the dryer, started a load of jeans, hung the uniforms up, dried the jeans, put the jeans away, and washed towels. I'm in some sort of "nesting" period right now because we're trying to get pregnant (very similar to the one when you're at the end of the pregnancy). I'm wanting to get all of the baby stuff out of Princess's room and into the baby room...but we don't have a baby room yet. We need to close off the garage, move our office to the garage, and turn the office into a nursery. So I have all of this baby stuff and no where to put it. So I took a storage box and put away a few of Princess's toys that she's outgrown or just doesn't need anymore. We still have the Winnie the Pooh border and wall clings up in her room, and they're all moveable, so it'll be easy to move it to the nursery...once we get a nursery. I'm so sick of the Winnie the Pooh stuff in her Disney Princess room. LOL We originally planned on our kids sharing a room, so we were just gonna make it half Princess/half Pooh...unless we have a girl, and then we'd probably just make it all Princess to make it easier. But our Princess has too much stuff. Last year when we started trying, we hadn't moved Princess out of the crib yet, so I didn't go through all this...she still needed most of her baby stuff. But now that we've made it through another Christmas and birthday...we have no room for everything!

I'm so anxious to get our tax money back and get a new A/C, then maybe we can get started on all the work we need to do in the garage! By the way, here's my final plan for the garage...put up a big sliding glass door where the garage door is, insulate the outside walls and put up new drywall, level the garage floor, put up a wall and door blocking off the laundry room, put up curtains in front of the glass door, and paint the floor and walls. Oh, and we have to put a shed out back so we'll have somewhere to put all the lawn equipment.