so as most of you who read this blog have been subject in one way or another to the wrath of my baby shower skillz, you might somewhat understand my current situation. next saturday i am having a baby shower at my house for a friend. (valerie) another of valerie's friends is co-hosting, but somehow i got myself into this in somewhat of an unfair balance. brittney is in charge of games and i am in charge of cleaning my house, food, and decorations. when i originally agreed to it, i did not factor in a clean house to the situation. silly me. so for the last couple of weeks i've had a piece of computer paper filled up with things to be cleaned or otherwise finished before saturday. last weekend was the birthday weekend reprieve and this weekend was going to be the 'down to business' time. it's not working out very well. well, in fairness to me, i have accomplished a lot. it's just that there will be quite a few people over who i do not know very well and, as elizabeth puts it so well, i do not want them to suspect me anything other than the domestic godess i know they think i am. or, more realistically, i dont want them to walk into my house and think: "geesh, clearly she's not bothering to clean up now that her husband is gone! i will now resolve to think less of her and especially her poor husband since she is such a slob". and while these are highly unlikely sentiments, i fear them all the same. however, my fear of repulsion is not as great as my lack of motivation to get off my butt and move my blueberry pancake-filled belly around the house to clean.
on a fun note, i am attempting something for this baby shower that i have not done before for the others. i am going to make a diaper cake. i have not worked on it much but it is proving to be a bit of a head scratcher so far. we'll see how it turns out. i'll post pictures, as i'm sure everyone will be holding their breath in anticipation. i will say, smelling all those diapers as i roll them up to form the "cake" is suuuuure making me want a baby of my own to put in them. tentative day of arrival for the visitation of my husband followed by immediate enjoyment of his manliness is oct. 4th!! (dont be confused, there will not be any baby making until at least march, when he's back for good. all else is just practice. )
3 comments:
i can totally understand your woes of judgement conflicting with your motivation to actually clean. i fight this often, and then when i do get motivated, ben ups his efforts at destruction.
I hope your motivation comes back! It gets worse when you have children because you have to add in the guilt you feel about letting your children hang out in a less than immaculate house. And the "explain to your husband that the house was indeed clean at 10 a.m. and the kids destroyed it by the time he got home" factor. Good times :D
So I doubt our conversation earlier actually helped with the whole "cleaning the house" business, but at least you'll have some tasty brownies to eat! Maybe you can cut a big one to take home and make it your reward for when you complete a certain number of things off your list... Oh, and your news was very exciting! Cautiously so, but exciting none the less.
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