Jeez the nerve of me, right? I take a vacation from my blog and then my first post back and all I want to do is brag... thats just not very friendly is it? Once I get done with my bragging, I think you will understand that this is a moment in a working mom's year that a gal just needs to share a rare moment with someone who understands.
First let me start by sharing that this past Friday was my 10 year wedding anniversary! Yay for us! How did we celebrate? Dinner out with the kids... yep that's right, you heard me, an ordinary weekend night out for dinner with two children in tow! However, I must say (er I mean brag) that my boys were fairly well behaved so all in all it was a great night. Now my husband and I really aren't big gift givers. We usually celebrate our birthdays by picking out our own gifts, something we really need or want but feel guilty about spending the money on any ordinary day. This anniversary, even though a milestone, we celebrated with dinner and our usual exchanging of cards. You see the wonderful thing about marriage is having someone in your life who really is in sync with you. I have been saying to friends and fellow couponers how desperately my freezer needs defrosting and one day this week I came home from work to find my husband had defrosted the freezer! Its was the perfect gift, even though I don't think he intended for me to think of it as a gift! My first response was, "Wow, now I can do some more shopping!" A joke of course, but I just found out there is a great buy on Ore-Ida fries, so I am seriously so relieved of my new found freezer space! Check it out!
My second item to brag about is my cleaned carpets! Actually they're not worth bragging about since I spent a good portion of my weekend pushing and pulling a heavy cleaning machine over my rugs, without much improvement, but at least I can say they are clean and I knocked off one an item from my every growing things to do list! Our carpets have to be 20 years old and in desperate need of replacement, but with two small boys, it just doesn't make sense to replace them at this point in our life. I just need to tough it out a few more years!
My final item in need of bragging, which is truly the rarest of them all, is my FINISHED laundry. Oh yeah, that's right, woo hoo, my hampers are empty, my laundry is washed, dried, folded and put away! I almost don't believe it! I don't remember the last time I accomplished this! The summer months, packed of so much activity, led to my weekly panic of going to bed on Sunday nights not knowing if I was going to be able to find clean clothes for myself or the rest of my family to wear come morning. Then I followed it with a stressful week of cramming a load of laundry into our hectic evenings, with not enough time to actually fold it, but to just let it pile up on the downstairs table, waiting for Friday afternoon to arrive so I might hopefully get it folded and put away before the wrinkles permanately set in.
After my list of brags, I hope you can understand my need to get it out there to someone who will understand how truly great of a weekend this was. I was starting to feel that there just weren't enough hours in my week to get it all done (which there really isn't) but there is enough to get a LOT done. I think I just forgot how much could be accomplished in a weekend. We really took advantage of the summer season and spent our weekends enjoying the outdoors and time with our family and friends, which is what summer is all about so I have no regrets to all those wonderful days on the beach and the river!
I just let myself get overwhelmed with the list of chores that piled up while we were out playing. It feels really good to have a weekend of accomplishment, a reminder that I can get a handle on things when I use my time wisely! I almost forgot to mention that I also got my coupons organized. I am not completely done, but I would say I am about 80% there, which is much closer, than where I would have ranked myself a week ago, which I hate to admit was probably only about 25%!
I hope everyone else had a great weekend and that the fall season is getting everyone else back on track from a summer of play, because before you know it, the Holidays will be here!
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