I'm horrible at titles

I never really know exactly what to say for them. As for us today we're doing pretty good. Sweetheart stayed up all night in order to try and get used to the third shift schedule since she starts tonight. I've been falling asleep before 11 now, and waking up before Loki does in the morning, which is kind of nice so I can wake up a little bit before I have to be in charge of a child. I guess Flylady does know what she's talking about. : )

Tonight we're having one of our friends from our monthly dinner group over for Orange Chicken, I'm so looking forward to how it turns out, it was always my favorite dish at Promise Thai before it was closed. It's another chicken dish were I have to brown the chicken before putting it in the crock pot. But thankfully it didn't need to be cooked all the way through, just browned a little bit. I'm having to cook it on high, because I got going a little late on the meal prep, which is kinda silly considering I've been awake since 6am.

Still can't focus worth anything, unfortunately. which makes it a little hard to do anything. Husband is helping a lot though, and has been much more supportive than I could ever wish for. He's also been helping watch Loki when my temper starts getting short with her explorations as I'm trying to clean or cook. My hormones are affecting me earlier and more severely than they did while I was pregnant with Loki, I don't ever remember feeling this out of control of my moods.
But Loki's been pretty sweet and cuddly when I'm not feeling good and all I want to do is just lay on the couch because moving takes too much energy. I suppose I'm really lucky to have such a wonderful (mostly) calm daughter.

So I've changed my mind

Instead of doing FlyLady's beginner baby steps i've adapted then end 'control journal' to my purposes and have started using the COZI app on both my phone and Husband's. I use the to-do list as my daily control journal, and have made an extra list for my weekly chores. I'm even working on one for the monthly 'zones' of deep cleaning. Plus Husband has his own to-do list that I update so he just looks at it when he gets home from work and knows what I need him to do for the day. It's quite awesome. Plus I love the calendar part of it. That's actually the main reason I downloaded it in the first place.

In other news the shawl for Ber is complete!! (except for the fringe, which I'm hoping to finish tonight if I can ever get Munchkin to go to sleep. She's tired, but really doesn't want to give in. It's okay, I got an hour nap in earlier, so I'm good till about 2 am, then I'll need to tag Husband in for a little bit.
Tomorrow while Husband is gone at work my plan (after getting my morning/afternoon checklists done) is to get out the sewing machine and re-familiarize myself with it, and sew up a blanket I've had pinned together for at least 2 years. If that goes well then I'll do some patch work on my pair of cut-offs, and my only pair of jeans. So fingers crossed it goes well.

Well, Munchkin is down in her crib for the second time, and hopefully this time she will fall asleep on her own. (I hate letting her cry, but she needs to sleep.) Every time I try to put her down in her own bed today she's woken up and started crying, but it is bedtime now, so she gets to cry for 10-15 minutes before I go and 'save' her from the 'evil sleeping place'
Gotta love kids.

Here's the shawl folded with 1/4 of the fringe done (it takes forever!!!)

I'm getting pretty good at this!

Not completely killing it yet, but I kept my sink shining all day long! (well, after I got up at least)
We were going to go to church this morning, but Munchkin didn't sleep well last night, so I put Husband in charge of the alarms and making sure we got up in time to shower and get ready. Well, that didn't end up turning out to well. I didn't get his attention before I told him evidently, so we ended up waking up an hour late and not making it today. :-(
Had a pretty good day, Husband took the baby and let me nap for a bit. Munchkin got introduced to peaches, she's neutral on the subject so far.
I got most of day 8 I'm actually really bad at getting my own clothes out for the day, but I always have Husband's uniform and work stuffs set out and ready to go before I go to bed so he doesn't have to worry about anything (and it helps him get a couple extra minutes of sleep in the mornings)
All in all, I'm feeling positive, and looking forward to the de-cluttering tomorrow. Gonna tackle the 'junk' drawer in the living room.

Truthfully

I'm not doing so awesome with keeping my sink clean. Mostly because I'm afraid if I start banging around the pots and pans as I'm cleaning, or even just rinsing dishes and putting them away I'll wake up Munchkin, and since it has been so hard to put her to sleep lately, I really don't want to wake her up. I did do my day six pretty good. Worked on my table hot spot, and my kitchen counters.
Ber is going to come hang out with me a bit tomorrow while our husbands are both gone at work and take Munchkin with her to run some errands. (at least that's the current plan) It's a nice way for her to spend time with her 'favorite' niece and also a way to give me a little time away from the baby, which I really appreciate. Plus this way Ber can see a little bit how it is to run errands with a little baby in tow, although Munchkin's normally pretty good at the store. Talked with Husband about the game plan for my 'alone' time, and have it all set out for what will be getting done.
* get the last couple boxes taken care of
* clean / finish organizing the bathroom
* straighten up Munchkin's room / organize all the cloth diaper stuffs
* get laundry caught up

(Husband actually only told me to get the first two done, I added the last two)

But the baby is asleep, the Husband is asleep, his clothes and work stuffs are all set up and ready for him tomorrow when he gets up bright and early. And now that all of those things are taken care of I'm going to watch hulu and work on some crafty things!

Continuation

To be completely honest, I kind of failed day 3, but I'm running on about 14 hours of sleep for the past 72 hours. I did get dressed for most of the morning, but then after taking the dog out Munchkin was acting tired, so I put my pj pants back on and we took a nap on the couch, and I think that hour and a half was the most she slept all day. Right now, my sink is not cleaned, and there are dinner dishes in it, but at the moment, Munchkin is finally asleep. And I'm so proud of her, because after about 10 minutes of sleeping in her crib, she started crying. And instead of rushing to comfort her I let her cry for about 7 minutes, and she fell back asleep!!! So exciting, she actually has never done that before.
So all in all, Flying today has been a little bit of a failure, but the baby is asleep, so now I'm going to take a shower and crawl into my nice, soft, warm, comfortable bed.

Once and again

Well, at this point day 2 is halfway done. I'm up, (I think I look quite zombie-like) I am dressed, my hair has been brushed (yeah, that's odd to comment, but when i get busy I don't even worry about brushing my hair, which happens quite often actually) it's in a nice french braid (okay, I have to note here...braid is such an odd spelling, I had to look it up to make sure I wasn't spelling it wrong) I am actually wearing make-up and socks. I'm supposed to dress to shoes, but we don't wear shoes in the house, so after talking to Husband, he said dressing to socks would be acceptable.
I'm thinking of crocheting up a pair of house slippers if I find a pattern I like that has the simulated soles. The problem with that is so many slipper patterns have a seam along the bottom, instead of a flat sole, and I don't like the way the non-sole slippers feel, it's just not right for me.

In unrelated crafty news, I've started crocheting up my first re-usable grocery bag made from grocery bags. So far it's not going bad, but crocheting with plastic bag yarn is quite different than anything I've ever worked with before, not horrible, but just different. Haven't really been able to get much done on it, but that's kind of expected at this point.

EDIT:
Well, so far it looks like another sleepless night. But at this point Munchkin is happily playing in her swing, I've got a load of laundry in the dryer and I'm about to finish the dishes and shine my sink.
I'm thinking of making a set of embroidered tea towels, one for each day of the week. I even have a cute lace crochet pattern to use for edging.

Below is the first five rows of the bag so far.

Day One

I made it through day 1, barely. I was missing a lot of the 'cleaning' materials that were suggested, and since I couldn't quite bring myself to meet my new neighbors by saying "hi, I'm your new neighbor, could I borrow a cup of bleach?" I think I got my sink looking pretty spiffy, all the hand washing is done, and the dirty dishes are in the dishwasher, which is actually finished now.
Although, I do need to re-start the washer, I've got some very very dirty cloth diapers, Munchkin had a gynormous blow-out earlier today, actually twice, only the second time I had her in a disposable diaper, so it was a little less laundry, although between the two blow-outs she dirtied up two different outfits, the blanket the diapers. My baby is a pooping machine. I suppose it's a good thing, because it means she's not constipated.
 It is after 1:30 am right now, and Munchkin is not sleeping for more than 20 minutes at a time in her crib. She did this last night too, I think we only got 4 hours of sleep, and the longest stretch of that was for two hours, when I caved and had her sleep in bed with me. One more try to get her down in the crib and then I will probably cave again, if I can get into the bed without waking her up. Right now she's enjoying the bean bag chair and a couple toys, smiling up at me when she looks up; even laughing. Sleep is for weaker babies, and she is not effected in a negative way which is actually a blessing at this point.