Coming Up For Air

I've re-written this opening sentence many times. I hate when I've neglected my blog coming back after I had a nice momentum and groove going. It's like not exercising for a week or so and struggling to get back into it. Same goes with writing.

The past few weeks have been extremely busy for me. At the end of the day, I am usually spent and feel like my account is overdrawn.

I cannot cast responsiblity of my exhaustion on parenting. That part has been the most gratifying. Even through pink-eye, a cold and picky eating, Alberto has been fabulous!

Alberto being a "big boy"

I'm pretty tired because work has been busy and home responsiblities seem to abound. I never really understood how laundry could multiply itself but somehow or other mine seems to do so. Then the dishes pile up. I don't know how this happens because it's not like we dirty that many dishes. And then there is the bathroom. After I read that someone found a 4 to 5 inche worm in their child's diaper, I've been cleaning the tub after all of Alberto's baths.

"See Mom, I eat!"

Talking about baths...Alberto graduated to bathing without a towel on the bottom of the tub and has been loving his bathtime now for a couple weeks. In fact, he loves water. Yesterday while my dad was watering some plants, Alberto ran into the stream of water from the hose.

Loving it at Ikea

"Ball!"

I have a load in the dryer, another load in the washer, dishes to do, a tub to clean and get everything organized for the cleaning lady. Oh yeah, remind me why I need a cleaning lady? The smell my house has when I get home on Mondays after she's cleaned.