Progress was made...

As my father's day gift to my husband, I stayed home today while he took the baby out to his folks house and tried to get the back room arranged for his new computer that will be here in a couple weeks. I made good progress, but there's still plenty to do.

I'm going to feel so good when it's clean back there, the kind of clean that it will stay because I found homes for everything that was cluttering the place up.

Yay!

Here We Are Again

My plants are mostly all in! They're all in pots. I'd like to plant a little in the actual tiny bit of ground I have, but I'd have to break it up by shovel and I'm not sure I want to do it that badly.

So, my husband ordered a new computer this week. He's never had one that would actually run the newest games, and he decided it was time. Since he's so careful with money and great at saving, I can't give him a hard time about making a big purchase. And it will be nice to have a second computer in the house again. I just hope he doesn't spend all his time computer gaming after it gets here.

Anyone ever noticed how hard it is to change habits, even when you truly believe it should be done? It's hard. These habits developed for a reason, and the reasons are still there. It's very had to replace several poor coping methods with better ones. But I've become more and more aware, and at least this time I can't shake the thoughts about it. I guess that's a step in the right direction.

Life is Busy

Well, it is when you take your daughter to Wisconsin on your own.

We've been home about a week now, and things are still busy and a little stressful. Without giving too many details the state of our state's economy is threatening both my and my husband's jobs (at least not on a permanent basis) and the waiting is killing me.

So I've been trying to focus on good things. Like how much help strangers gave me in the airports after they saw me pushing a stroller with one hand and hauling our carry-on and her car seat around. One woman even installed the car seat on the plane for me! Thank you again, First-class passenger in green.

My father-in-law took the baby today while my husband went with my mother-in-law out of town on some family business. I busied myself with cleaning up in my living room. It's a little disheartening to see how it doesn't look all that cleaned up. But it's just small and crowded and never going to look nice and neat.

Ah well, it is what it is.

I did get my plants in this weekend, so I'm very happy about that. And I learned that I can get a community garden plot at my work for next year! We'll see if I do well keeping up with them this year. If I do, maybe I'll take the plunge.