I Blinked

I remember being a newlywed, working at one job, exercising six days a week, renting movies on weeknights, playing table games until the wee house of the morning and wanting to have a family. The other day I looked around and had three, count them, three little girls running around calling me "mommy!" When did that happen? Now my occupation is wearing many different hats. I get to exercise maybe six minutes a day; I enjoy Disney movies only because I know I will get to sit for an hour, and table games contain pictures instead of words. I have the family I always wanted, but I still don't know when it happened. Someone asked how long I had been married and I answered, "Twelve years." Wooo! Did I just say twelve years? When Josh answers that question he'll say "Doesn't seem like twelve years, but sometimes it feels like twelve years." Although laden with sarcasm it is somewhat incomprehensible. I have a hard time grasping what has happened and how much has changed for the better, and I am so thankful.

I used to do laundry in one day. I mean wash, dry, fold, iron, hang, put away, everything! Now, I do a load of laundry every day just to make sure there are enough pairs of clean socks and underwear, but rarely does it all make it to the closet or dresser drawers, let alone to the iron.

I used to strive to climb the corporate ladder. Now, I hope to be the best volunteer in my daughter's Kindergarten class.

I used to envy another woman thinking, "Man she has it all…a great husband, two wonderful daughters, and she's able to make it look so easy!" Now, I have kids saying they want to be just like me when they have families…

I love what I do and I am embracing this chapter of my life, I just don't remember turning the page. It is just me?

The Intended versus The Practical

Responding to the first comment I received in helping me sort out my dilemma….

This topic will definitely have to be revisited… and yes, there is a trend that most of it involves laundry.

Our king sized bed was intended to be a resting place to collect much needed zzz's, allowing our minds to rest. Instead as the largest flattest surface in the house, it has become the collecting place for clean laundry, which actually forces me to get it sorted in order to go to bed each night.

A full sized couch in the master bedroom was meant to be a relaxing location to escape from the toils of the day and curl up with warm blanket and a good book. But instead, it has become an overflow location for the never ending laundry sorting quandary.

A corner whirlpool tub should be used for soaking, relaxing, and catching a few moments of hydrotherapy, but instead it is used to separate the 'worn' but acceptable to 'wear again' clothes from the too dirty and must be washed clothes.

Any couch or cushion covered furniture should be a place to sit comfortably if the cushions were actually on it. However, in our house, these cushions are often found as the building blocks for forts, thus making the cushion less a piece of furniture, and more an indoor trampoline.

And no fort would be complete with out a roof, so sheets and blankets of all sizes are often found hanging randomly throughout the house.

Our guest bedroom, intended to house a bed, that is currently being used elsewhere, has become a play room for toys, toys and more toys (all girl stuff of course).

Okay, so the only really cool item that I actually found a creative use for is going to make every Pampered Chef Consultant vomit a little in their mouth. It is the little brown square scraper that comes with a stoneware purchase. It is a great tool for scraping the food or other unidentifiable substances off your kitchen/dining room floors and/or walls. I have one with my mopping supplies and it helps remove some of the most stubborn globs of caked on who-knows-what off my floor.

Requesting Your Assistance

Obviously I am not motivated to blog every day (my apologies to those who check every few minutes), but I do confess I have fallen way off my intended once a week blogging. One of my reasons for not posting lately is that I simply have too many projects started (not to mention the strict revision system I apply to each post), meaning each time I sit down to inform you (my most loyal fans) of my latest adventure, I am distracted by what I have previously started. So I am requesting your assistance in sorting out my dilemma. Please comment on what you'd like to hear about most. These are some of the tabled projects I have in the works, but any idea would be fun.

The intended versus practical uses for the items in my house

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