So things have been cleaned! At least to a new, improved standard as a parent of small children! Sometimes that’s the best indication that our smallest is a toddler on her way to being a small child. Sometimes when everything feels overwhelming I remind myself how far we’ve come. The smallest sleeps through the night and plays with her brothers and can play outside and I have cleaning routines for key house stuff. The trees that were messing with the RA are gone, most of the carpet that messes with the RA is gone, I have air filters that minimize the things that annoy the RA that do get in.
I canned a lot of stuff and we have an awesome supply of things to eat. I learned two new skills (embroidery and lotion making). I’m on my way with more skills (upholstery, candle making, more soap/lotion things, felting, pressure canning). I have plans for systems to fix or at least work around some of the stuff that derailed last summer and systems to make doing things and having fun possible to coexist. So that’s all awesome and it’s important to remember how much we’ve done and how much better that all is. Sometimes it’s just hard to remember it, probably because life during the small child phase of things can be hard and chaotic even with the best efforts and wow-oh-wow the world at large. But here, we’ve done an awesome amount of things that make a lot better and more fun.
And the smallest will be 3 this spring and then may be in the presence of legos (and other tiny objects) and is getting pretty good at stairs so we can remove gates and she can play in the basement (which is currently a mystical land of wonderful tiny toys she only gets to visit) and hopefully we’ll be done with diapers soon. And she can play outside with someone watching her but soon she will be able to play with supervision but not the sort that requires hovering just behind her. That really improves the odds that gardening and yard work happens this summer!
For now though it’s small projects, seeing about growing some herbs in the window again and doing inside projects we have lined up (shelves! among others…).
