Monday Already?

I swear there just aren't enough hours in the day.  So I had a very busy weekend.  After several lice treatments and hours of combing through the girls' hair and my hair, I think we have taken care of the lice.  We'll do the recommended repeat shampooing next weekend and hopefully that will be the end of it.  So other than treating ourselves for lice, what else did we do?  We cleaned out and organized the office and my bedroom.  For the record, both of these rooms have been woefully neglected the past several months...accruing trash, old bills that needed to be shredded, old law directories that needed to be thrown out, shoe boxes stacking up, etc.  So after Saturday and Sunday, we had this to haul out:

The moving survey people are coming today to figure out how much stuff we have so I had to get a clearer idea of these 2 rooms.  I also washed every piece of clothing (at least it seemed that way) and sheets and towels that we have in our house.  Now I just have A LOT to fold.

On Sunday, we also went and got our haircut (once we were sure we were lice free, of course).  I was only going to get a trim but then got a bug up my butt and chopped it all off.

Maddie with her short bob

Lori wants to grow her hair to her butt (sigh) so we just trimmed the bangs and took off the ends

So now it's back to work for another fun filled week.  Lori is turning 5 on Thursday.  Our tradition is the birthday girl/boy gets to pick dinner...she wants Chick Fil A so there ya go.  I think we're going to do her actual family party on Friday with balloons and cake and she says she wants to see a movie so we may do that on Saturday.  I was going to do an indoor play thing with a couple friends but decided against it.  I may change my mind again.  We'll see.

This week's focus is on not snacking out of stress.  Wish me luck.

Monday DEMotivator:

Thankful...Sorta

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Mine was bittersweet.  There was good...there was not-so-good but I hesitate to say "bad."  So a little rundown:

• Dinner was good.  Despite a few kitchen mishaps (do any of you suffer from bad cooking days?  Where it seems it's harder to cook or more stuff goes wrong than normal?  Well, that was yesterday for me.), the food came out very yummy. 
• I got an early Christmas gift from my BFF...a new personalized phone case with a pic of the girls at Disney.  So cool!  

• As is tradition, I had my first cup of eggnog with my mom to kick off the holiday season.  Mmmm...Me gusta egg nog mucho!

• I really missed Hubby on Thanksgiving.  I found myself a little weepy in the morning, making kids breakfast and loading up the car and stuff.
• I felt really bad for Hubby later when I talked to him and he sounded so down that he spent Thanksgiving alone.  
• He's not going to feel any better, missing Lori's birthday later in the week.  :(
• In the middle of all the hustle and bustle yesterday, I discovered that we all have lice.  My girls and me.  Eeeeewwwww!  So effing gross!  So I got to run to CVS to buy lice treatment for all 3 of us and spent yesterday evening shampooing and combing and all that nasty stuff.
• The lice stuff is something Hubby would usually do for me because he knows how badly I'd be icked out.  I had to suck it up.  
• It was also really difficult to comb through my hair and it's difficult to see what I'm doing.  God I miss him.  I may have to ask my mom to see if it looks like I got everything.  Eeeeewwww again.
• It was a little sad to think this was the last Thanksgiving here in Phoenix.  I'm hoping my parents will make an annual trip out to Jacksonville so we can at least keep that going.
• I was happy that while I did overindulge yesterday that it wasn't a complete derailment.  I skipped breakfast, had Thanksgiving lunch and yes a small slice of each of the pies, the eggnog and that was it.  No dinner as I was too full.  Not bad compared to preband indulgence.

So it was a good day and a challenging day.  I realize how lucky I am that I have my girls and my parents and friends around me right now but missed Hubby something terrible.  It makes me really glad we're going to be together for Christmas.  

Let's lighten the mood with a Friday Funny:

I Bow To Single Moms

So a little background.  Hubby started law school in 2002/2003.  We spent that year apart while I finished up at ASU and planned our wedding.  It was hard.  Luckily, I had my mom's flight benefits and flew for free so I made it up to Ohio to visit every couple months.  I was also busy with school, friends and wedding planning.  It was still hard but we made it through no worse for wear.

So this is what I've been telling myself since Hubby left on Saturday.  I said, "Self.  It's a mere month.  It's not a year or even 2 months...you went longer during that year not seeing him than you are spending apart now.  This is not a big deal. And you thought you were busy before??  You've got 2 kids now!  You've got to get them up, get them dressed, get them fed...there are lunches to be made!  You've got to get yourself showered, dressed and ready.  Get everyone off to school and yourself to work!  And this is all before 8 am!  Then you've got the evenings...homework, dinner, baths, stories, bedtime, sorting through stuff for the move!  When are you going to have time to miss him?!?!"  So that's been my pep talk for 3 days now.  And it's working...as far as missing him goes.  I'm also older and more mature now so that's undoubtedly helping as well.

Something else we discovered last night was skype!  We didn't have this back in 2002.  Or if we did, we didn't know about it.  How fun!  It's basically video conferencing using your computer.  Very handy.  The girls loved it and it's nice to be able to actually chat as if he's in the same room.  This little innovation truly makes long distance relationships easier!

OK...so that's all well and good for the emotional side of everything. It's that to do list I ran through.  While it's very handy at keeping me busy...it's only Day 3 and I'm exhausted!  I have done virtually no moving prep work as I'm just trying to get a routine down right now.  Unfortunately, it's a luxury I don't have.  I really do have to get on top of all the moving stuff.  The gym is almost already a distant memory.  We do own a treadmill and I've thought about working off some of this stress at night but we'll see if that actually happens.  There's a reason I have a gym membership...I find it extremely difficult to get motivated at home.

So I say all of that to say, while I've always had a lot of respect for single moms...I truly bow to you.  I don't know how you do it day in and day out for so long.

There is some good news in my life (not that any of this is really bad...just stressful).  I am down 2.5 lbs since Friday morning.  Feeling good about that.  I'm really focusing on my food and trying not to snack.  I'm also wearing my PanAm pencil skirt today and feeling sassy.  And for the first time ever, I decided to go truly old school and wore my pearls today.  I never had pearls...never liked them much but as I've matured (ahem) they've grown on me.  Anyway, I got a string of my grandmother's when she passed away but I have never worn them.  There's a first time for everything.

So that's my life at the moment.  Boss is out of the office this week so it's nice and quiet.  She creates drama around here.  I'm working from home tomorrow.  I've got pies to bake and the girls' turkey trots at their school.  Yes...I'll be running with them again.  Last year was the first year I actually ran with Maddie at hers and I felt so good about it.  This year, I get to do 2.  :)

Hope y'all are having a great week!