Thursday, November 13, 2008

Practice Makes Perfect... right?

If repetition is the key to success, call me Mrs. Successful. Here is a list of the things I do seemingly constantly, over and over and day after day:

*collect potholders from various locations throughout the house and return them to appropriate cabinet
*ditto for bread pans, only add from the basement stairs (as Ben enjoys throwing them over the gate); return them to appropriate cabinet
*return cookie sheets to cabinet by the fridge
*systematically get in and out of the bathroom quickly, without Ben noticing and/or getting into the cupboard under the sink
*collect and replace the metal weights from the bottom of the vertical blinds
*use, reuse, wash, reuse ...baby spoons, bowls, and cups
*collect, sort, wash, dry, fold, and put away laundry
*feed, yell at, drag away, pet, cuddle, put out, warn, give "you'd better not be doing what I think you are doing glares" at.... the dog
*think of foods Ben can eat, prepare foods Ben can eat (i.e., thaw, purée, stir, mix, etc), feed Ben
*clean the baby food processor (this gets done almost twice a meal)
*read books to Ben
*convince Ben he wants to take naps
*bathe Ben
*lotion, diaper, and dress Ben in fuzzy sleepers that he is nearly always growing out of, it seems
*convince the little guy he wants to sleep, and 


.......ahhhhh. Go to bed, sleep, do it all over again.

Oy.

Sometimes I feel like I am going to go out of my mind. :-)

7 comments:

Amy said...

Just think you could be doing this instead....

going into the pt in rm 2s room and reminding her to keep her arm straight so her IV will stop alarming occluded. Or dropping off pain medicine to the drama queen in rm 26, every two hrs on the hr. Or listening to the man in 15b complain for the 100th time today about NPO. And lets not even get into the Drs :)

I think you and I both know you'd rather be dealing with the cutie in the next room anyday!

But I can only imagine the craziness of it all.

The Carlson Chronicles said...

Ah, motherhood. Isn't it wonderful? Nice to see you the other day!

Beth said...

Oh, Amy, how about the gentleman in 63 who is so fed up with his fluid restriction, that he actually rinsed out and refilled his URINAL with water to drink, since his water pitcher had been strategically removed?! Ha ha ha. I loooooooove nursing stories!!

Rachel said...

i laughed the whole time i read this because you just described MY LIFE! (aside from the whole throwing sutff over the baby gate, harmony does that all!)

I must clean the kitchen a million times a day-

her laundry is never ending

Does Ben play with your dogs, food, because Harmony WON'T STOP!

I put DVD's back on the shelf 20 times in a day

But I love every smile, every giggle, and every hug! Those i NEVER get sick of.

Ashley said...

I love it. I really do need to appreciate this time I have now, huh? So much to look forward to ;)

Anonymous said...

uhhhh ... I'm sorry, were you writing about your life or mine?!?! Gosh, I'm so glad to have a sista in all of this! :)

Julie said...

This has been my life for the last 3 years. And the funny thing Chip said today, I can't wait to have the next one so we can get over the baby thing and start some normalcy. i had to laugh! I don't think it will be normal again, depending on the def. of that. I feel like I pick up pick up pick up all day long. Between that, feeding, and laundry, that is a day for sure. I want to know how working people do it.