This glamorous life of mine

Hmm.. so.. what do I want to tell you about? About so many unrelated things I guess.

I finished planting all the seeds for things I'm going to grow this year. I started out with sunflowers, carrots, lettuce, onions, poppies, and strawberries. Most of the sunflowers are about 6 inches tall and will have to go into pots that are a lot bigger soon- or be moved right into the ground outside. The carrots, lettuce, onions, poppies are all about the same.. small still, but doing okay. It will be awhile before they can go into the ground. And the strawberries? After weeks.. are just barely coming up out of the dirt. But.. I guess that's normal for strawberries. They are actually one of the things I am most excited about growing. That and the cucumbers.

The second batch of seeds that I planted (over the weekend) were cucumbers, yellow tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins (just 3 seeds, because what am I going to do with 20 pumpkins?), beans (3 different kinds), nasturtiums, and echinacea (that Lily picked out because the flowers were pretty.. although, considering how often we get sick now..).

Yesterday.. I finally bought a new stroller. Finally. Last year around this time I wanted to get a new one.. and looked around a lot, but never bought one. Because I didn't really NEED one, I just kind of wanted a new one. Now.. I do need one. The one I have now was bought right before Lily was born. Four and a half years ago. It was used a lot. And it shows. The basket is ripped in several places, the axles are both rusted all the way across, the tires don't have much rubber left on them, etc. But the major problem is that one of the axles is now bent near the tire. I have no idea how it happened and when I tried to fix it, it only got about 25% better. I was afraid if I put too much pressure on it, the whole thing was going to snap. And then instead of having a mostly broken and really difficult to push stroller, I'd have a completely broken and totally useless stroller. So.. it was new stroller time. It'll be here some time in the next few weeks. I'm excited.

Also.. I've been trying to clean the house. Clean as in.. organize, I guess? Because I already do clean the house.. and that's not exciting to talk about. Or do. It's slightly chaotic around here.. and has been as such for years. It's better now than it was a year ago.. and a year ago it was better than it was two years ago.. but, it's still nonsense. And I hate it.

Trying to organize things with two little kids is.. not going well. I can only make the tiniest of progress each day I get to work on it. And by tiny I mean.. not even noticeable. And there's only so much that I can do- physically.

Today, I spent a lot of time starring at a bookcase that belongs to someone else and I wish would just get moved out already. But.. after 14 months of wishing that.. it's still here, so I'm not holding out much hope that it's going anywhere. Right now I'm trying to figure out where to put it. There are a few places it could go, but I'm not thrilled about any of the options.. so all I really did was stare at it.

I swept the hall and Lily's room. I rotated Noah's bed 90 degrees- which I think makes better use of the Lily/Noah bedroom space. I did two loads of laundry, folded it all, and put it away. I also washed a lot of dishes. That's actually washing them.. wouldn't it be funny if I had a dishwasher?

I drank two cups of iced coffee today. Not "cups" as in eight ounce quantities, but as in containers.. so, more than two cups really. And there's still so much. To do.