Two babies, a dog and a mom

This blog needs a new title. Keeping up with my updating every six months-- I am happy to announce the arrival of Cameron Paul, five months ago. A lot has  happened since then but we are finally getting settled. Now Tim and I are just trying to keep the boat afloat by staying in a routine and staying somewhat sane. It's crazy how now I am completely envious when Tim takes off on Saturday morning to go to the dump. The dump! How exciting! I think as I watch him pull down the driveway- alone in the car, while I try to ignore Nora's 50th request for a "snacky" and Cameron is puking all over my shoulder. 

After a few Saturdays of this, the resentment had just built up way too high so I hired a babysitter for Saturday mornings so I could get in on this kid-free errand running. It was the best idea I ever had. It felt so good to actually take care of some shit instead of starting a project and then stopping it five minutes later. I filed old papers in our office, and Emily our babysitter was out pushing Nora on the swings. Now, you would think that I would rather be outside playing with Nora, but at that moment I was more than happy to let someone else take care of that while I sat inside. There was just something satisfying starting with a big pile of papers, and when I was done the papers were gone. There's very little that's tangible like that when you take care of kids all day.