A day in the life...

A few months ago I was reading an article in the newspaper about how there's this new trend in America (supposedly) of women quitting their jobs and becoming stay at home wives--as in, they don't have kids but they don't work outside the home because it doesn't allow them to take care of their house and their husband as well as they want to. Part of me thought it sounded silly and part of me (as I was in the middle of TAKS season at school and not finding time to do any of the things I needed to at home) thought it sounded really nice!

Well, this summer, I am a stay at home wife, haha. And I get little jabs about it every day from my sweet husband as he gets up and heads to work. :) I thought I'd be sleeping in and lounging around and trying to find things to do so I wouldn't be bored. Um, that has not been the case at all. Life has been busy and, much to my disappointment, there has been very little lounging. :) We've been getting up and running around 630am every morning to try and beat the heat and then as soon as Landon leaves for work, I go to work too. I've been dusting and vaccuuming and mopping and cleaning wood floors and ironing and doing laundry (I think every blanket, table cloth, set of sheets, pair of clothing etc in our house has now been washed and dried). And running all of those little errands that have been on my to do list for the last few months that I could never find the time to do (and there are alot). And going to dyslexia training classes for my teaching next year, since this whole stay at home wife thing is just, you know, for the summer. Then it's back to real life.

So in conclusion, I will say this. It is nice to be able to be at home, but the longer I'm here, the more I find I need to do. My to do list keeps growing and growing, despite the fact that I keep crossing things off of it. I wonder if this is how it is for stay at home moms, or if taking care of the kids just makes all of the other little things I feel like I need to do seem insignificant.

By August, I may be so tired from all of this non-working that I may be ready to go back to work.

Or maybe not. (I'm kinda going with not! :)) Since most of the stuff on my to do list are at least things I at least semi-want to do and have been wanting/needing to do for a while now. We'll have to wait and see.

On a totally different note, I did get to take a little break from my days of cleaning today and go to an Astros game with Matthew and then Landon and I got to go to dinner with some sweet friends tonight to help a group from church raise money for a mission trip they're going on this summer to Mission Lazarus in Honduras. It was a nice night.

And in case I haven't mentioned it enough on here, I love living near family. :) It was so fun to visit with my brother at the Astros game--and I'm SO glad they finally won, even if it was an almost scoreless game and it took them 13 innings to pull out the victory!


TGIF (almost)! Fridays are even sweeter for us now, because they're our "rest" day in our marathon training program, so we get to "sleep in" until 730am or so. It's so sad that that's sleeping in, but we'll take what we can get! :)