There are not enough .......

Ahhh .. the care-free summer days!

   .........hours in a day.

  How many people are heard saying that in a week. I felt that way this whole week for sure. For some reason the hours and days started escaping me and my to do list started multiplying. Every one step I made forward made me realize that I was running 2 steps behind. It might be that being 31 weeks pregnant causes my head to be a little preoccupied with all the things that still have to be done before Monkey In-Waiting arrives. I keep on making "to finish before Monkey In-Waiting gets here" and "still need to get it" lists but nothing gets checked off of them. Or maybe it's that the newness of school work has worn off, and no matter how entertaining or fun I make the lessons Monkeys will do anything not to work on them. Or maybe it's Girly Monkey's birthday in few more days that's distracting all of them. Or maybe it's just that everyone is still getting over being sick. Funky Monkey has got a runny nose now and Daddy Monkey has been really sick this week, Little Monkey and Girly Monkey are still coughing. It's only me that has not got sick .... yet! I am just exhausted from tending to everyone's sickly needs.

Nature is motivation

   The weather has become wet and miserable, perfectly acceptable for this time of the year, except that rain doesn't motivate me do do anything. I will be the first one to admit that I am happy it has cooled off, but I wish the sun would come out a bit. Then again, maybe I would not even have much time to enjoy it. I have been feeling a little "big" this week. I think Monkey In-Waiting had a growth spurt and became ginormous in a span of few days. All of a sudden my belly grew rapidly and "not sleeping well" can be added to my list of late-pregnancy discomforts. I don't want to complain since I am growing a baby, and it does require sacrifices and commitment on my part, but this week I just felt a little sorry for myself.
   But the week hasn't been all lost to unproductiveness! I did spent many long hours browsing local Craigslist and Kijiji for bed for Little Monkey and after many failed attempts have finally found one. It's actually a wooden bunk bed that will go into boys room. Funky Monkey will get one bed and Little Monkey will get the other one. But we are not setting it up as bunk bed but rather separating them. I have heard of the troubles with bunk beds and that they are all nice and dandy until you have to change sheets on the top bunk at 3 am after your child got sick and threw up all over it. I don't have "sucker mommy" written on my forehead so I am thinking that keeping the two beds on the floor, well within my reach at 3 am will be best.

Boys' new bed

   The beds are very lovely and we managed to pick up the whole set in really good condition for just over 200 dollars. Have I mentioned that they are solid oak! Funky Monkey has a mattress that we will move from his current bed to the new bed, and we are in the process of getting Little Monkey his "big boy" mattress. The bed that Funky Monkey is sleeping in now will go into storage until Monkey In-Waiting is big enough to be needing one. Then we will decide who gets what. Right now I would like the two boys to have beds that are matching. So I guess that I can check that off my list.

Hey Mr. Sun, sun,
Mr  golden sun ...

   Another thing that I accomplished this week was to order the sheer linen fabric that I will make curtains in the boys room out of. Right now we have blinds in the windows, but having lived with them for a while I have to to say that I really hate them. All the mechanisms for them have broken, so you have to open them one slat at the time. They are also a pain to clean and they always collect dust. I would much rather have curtains made out of high quality fabric. So I ordered some sheer linen fabric from Fabric Store and I am waiting to get in so I can make the curtains. Linen is the perfect fabric for curtains and I am hoping it will stop a lot of the dust coming in from outside. We live in a very crowded subdivision with tons of cars and construction around us. We get a lot of dust coming in from outside. I am hoping that having curtains in the windows will stop some of that dust from entering the room. And I am fully committed to taking them off every couple of weeks and washing them. To tell the truth I would much rather do that than wipe each blind slat with a wet cloth every week.
   So I guess that time will tell whether next week will be more productive and a little easier. For not I keep thinking about some of the wonderful places we take walks at in the summer and I feel a little more sunshine in my heart.