Today has *three* awesome things.
First was lying on the floor playing airplane with the munchkin. I put a burp rag on my chest to absorb the dripping spit. (That part was for you Mo.) She laughed her ass off. She giggled for probably fifteen minutes straight until my arms got sore. That was just great.
Second was reading that one of the moms on the board I read is getting a new foster child. I’ve been reading her posts for a while and she seems like a pretty good parent (yes, I’m getting a limited view). She posted looking for advice about the next size up of diapers to buy for this new kiddo cause her child was EC’ed and out of diapers by this age. I’m sending her some of the size mediums we bought because she is poor and I am not. I think that foster parents need support. I included a teddy bear in the box so the baby girl can have one of her own. When the mom sent me her address she said she was crying because she’s so grateful. I feel good about being able to help her in this way.
I also got a card from a friend. This is the second one she’s sent me. They always make me happy. 🙂 Yay!
Less awesome but still good: I did a bunch of cleaning. 🙂 I even mopped again. I feel kind of embarrassed that mopping twice in a month is a big deal and something to be proud of. ha. The recently splattered oil means that it really needed it again…
Airplane with babies is fun. And not so much yay for housework as yay for a clean house. Even part of a house! I’d forgotten how much housework I haven’t done over the last week and a half until I did almost all of it yesterday and the day before. The boyfriend came in and was stunned by “how clean everything is!” It’s not so much that the absolute value of “clean” is so high as the relative value against what it was earlier this week. 😛
I would be happy if I remembered to mop twice in the month. It is my least favorite chore so rarely gets done. So I understand feeling proud. 🙂
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I’d be happy to send you a card or something if you want to PM me your address. 🙂
I would be brimming with pride and totally full of myself if I mopped twice in a month. YAY for you!! 🙂
Before I got the kittens, I vacuumed maybe once or twice a year. And I’d never mopped except for spot cleaning. Now that I have the kittens, I was vacuuming twice a day around the litter box. I’m down to twice a week but it’s still way more than I used to do it. I also started mopping, but that’s maybe once a month. There is some satisfaction in a clean house. I just used to take it for granted… minor build out over time isn’t as noticeable as crunchy cat litter under your feet.
Getting mail from real people is a real treat, isn’t it? I like it too!
What boards are you hanging around that include EC mamas?
You haven’t found mothering.com? Oh boy. http://www.mothering.com/discussions/forumdisplay.php?f=227 That’s the EC subforum.