The house is clean and tidy (except for a couple forlorn corners – the top of the chest in the guest room, the utility room shelves, and the shelves in the office, for goodness sake!) and I am calling it quits for the weekend. We are hosting a football party Saturday afternoon (with just one guest…whose house is always immaculate), and then on Monday we are having Steve’s extended family over for our quarterly gathering. If Steve thinks the house needs more cleaning, he is welcome to do it. I am done.
The one thing about being on top of everything and being a member of the neat and tidy club means that I don’t have to worry about my husband starting the “What’s this?” game. He’ll go through something – the refrigerator, a table, a shelf or something – and ask me about everything that doesn’t belong to him. He seems to think that if it isn’t his, it must be clutter. As in, stuff we don’t need that’s just filling space and getting in our way. Mind you, I could say the same about his stuff, but I don’t. Of course, “my stuff” includes everything that belongs to the boys so I get to be on the receiving end of this “game” quite often. It’s my favorite! But this weekend I should be safe…hopefully!
The thing about being a SAHM is that when holiday weekends come, you don’t get “time off” like everyone else. I still have to prepare meals, change diapers and the like. I try to at least modify our routine and follow the simplified, bare bones version. Then I try to add in special fun things like trips to the park and extra knitting time. That way it’s a change of pace at least.
So my plans for the weekend (Steve is only working a half day today and has tomorrow off which is why I’m talking about it today) include finishing the Nantucket Jacket and working on some other knitting projects I have going but haven’t touched for a few days. I also want to get out what photo frames I have and see what photos I might put in them so Steve will quit complaining about not having any pictures of the boys on his desk. I have photos that need to be hung, but I just haven’t taken the time to do it. With a clean office and someone else to pay attention to the boys for a few moments, I’m hoping I can at least get something on the wall so we can enjoy some of the pictures we have. That would mean taking some time to get better acquainted with Photoshop as well. But again, I shall have a second pair of hands and a few spare moments so I ought to be able to get that done.
Tonight college football season begins so we are going to be watching that. It’s a beautiful day – I have the windows open kind of beautiful – and I have some meat thawed that we can grill for supper. I will be running a few errands solo in town this afternoon so I may swing by the grocery store and pick up a couple hamburgers. [Hyvee has the best hamburgers in their meat department! You just buy the patties, take them home and cook them.] Then we have one more round of strawberry shortcake to enjoy.
Steve is home now so I must go. The weekend starts now… Enjoy everyone!