New List

It's Monday again! I'm so pleased with how last week went. I wasn't planning on actually doing all my regular exercising, but I did it anyway! And the cleaning in my entrance made me SO happy! The boot mats and shoe rack looked so clean and new when I was done! Of course, it doesn't stay that way for long, but it's gotta be cleaner than it was before I did it, right?

My favorite accomplishment last week was the change table! It was an old freebie we got from a friend of a friend. It was white... scratched up, well used, and not very fancy. A change table... they usually aren't. It had these pastel colored plastic covers over the rails which we removed so I could just paint the wood. My husband switched two shelves around (the top 'shelf' for the change pad was cracking a bit, so we swapped it with the middle one), and I proceeded to give it a scrub. The thing looked so much better after just scrubbing it! Then came primer... and it looked like this!

Finally, I took the remainder of my black paint (yes... the remainder. I scraped the very last of it out of the pail so I could finish this thing), and I painted it. It looks SO nice. It's a new piece of furniture!


All I need to do now is scrub the change pad itself and make/buy change pad covers. I can buy 1 meter of fabric and make two covers for this thing (need elastic too, of course), and it doesn't look hard, so I may go that route. I want to go for a nice color that will work well in our living room. And the baskets? I bought 2 in chocolate brown as well, but since they are so tall, M has a hard time pulling her toys out of them, so I used other baskets we had for her toys instead. The brown ones will find homes in our bedroom.

Now, on to the new week!

This week I am focusing on the Kitchen... and I added the office in there as well. The challenge of the week is to clean the kitchen and office light fixtures.

1. sweep
2. vacuum
3. mop
4. bathrooms
5. laundry
6. exercise? (did on tues, thurs, planned for Saturday, but I'm sick, so a walk will be good enough)
7. farm books
8. paperwork
9. shine sink
10. clean microwave, fridge, stove, toaster, drying rack
11. wipe clean the counters/cabinets
12. dust in kitchen
13. clean kitchen light
14. clean office light
15. dust in office (include baseboards)
16. meal plan for the week
17. disinfect bottles/pump
18. work on income tax return
19. work on 2010 farm plan (did a little more so far)
20. make birthday card
21. Dr Appointment on Fri
22. make cake/cupcakes for birthday party
23. take down Easter decor
24. scrapbook 2 pages

Look at that... half crossed off already! I'm so happy! I managed to get enough of a break today that I was able to get even more work done. I'm thinking of working on that card later... or if my husband will relinquish the couch, a nap sounds good too. :) Yes... M is napping right now.

My 'get ready for baby' list is coming along nicely as well. Found out the cradle is refinished and just needs to be reassembled. Blankets are made, most of the remaining items are on lists for the next few weeks. I can't believe it's less than a month till my due date! Aaack!

I had a 'scare' the other night (going into Easter Sunday, would you believe). Being half asleep, I had Braxton's and thought I was in labor (never had them while laying down when pregnant with M before... actually, I don't remember really having much Braxton's with her at all...). I remember praying, "Lord, not tonight... we don't have enough workers on the farm and my husband won't be able to be with me... please not tonight" and hearing "It's just practicing... don't worry... drink some water". I did, and they stopped. Trying to drink more water again... I've been neglecting it for some reason the last couple of weeks.

Anyway, how was your week? Do you feel good about what you did? Do you think I'm insane like just about everyone I've talked to for continuing in crazy huge lists? (don't worry... I think I'm insane too).

Good Luck this week!