Wow - my last post was about trying to blog everyday in November and now it's a month later with no posts...how does that even happen. I literally can't remember what even happened in November except for the Thanksgiving stuff we did just last week in Tulsa.
Lately, I feel like I've just been on autopilot, doing the everyday stuff and not really thinking about anything I'm doing, if that makes sense. I'm tired everyday and I'm just resting to tackle Connor's fits every day. Sometimes he has multiple and it's getting really old. I dunno how to avoid it. It's usually at or around 3:30-4pm like clockwork. Worse when it's a no-school day. He just gets bored. He constantly follows Emmeline around, who is getting an attitude herself. I just want some break time, but I have to watch them constantly. I should get some gates up, but the hallways and openings are too big, plus if they're not swing gates, I would have to take them down every time Connor wants to go back into his room.
Anyway, it's the holiday season and I know that it's Laura's favorite time of the year. I need to work on being happier and in a good mood. It's just that I haven't had much motivation to do anything lately. Especially the last couple of months. I have a lot of plans and projects I want to do next year, one that involves Connor to try and make some side money on YouTube to pay for our trip to Disneyworld, but we'll see how that goes. We've been spending a lot of money this past month or so and we need to cut down. Plus we have property taxes coming up this year. I think we'll be in a good spot by the end of the year, but it will take some budgeting. Actually, glad I mentioned the property tax to myself because the first half is due at the end of this month. Sheesh. The other stressful thing that's been on my mind, which, hopefully is gone now, is the fricken chimney leak that we've had since we moved in. I've been e-mailing and dealing with the roofers and a handyman but it didn't get fix after like 3 attempts until now. I think it's fixed now because they finally just redid the flashing completely last time. It rained a buttload for several days last week and the bucket in the attic and the rafters were dry, so here's hoping that it's all taken care of.
However, an ice storm came through at the same time and broke a shitload of branches off all of our trees, so hopefully none of them die. I spent about an hour today cutting them into manageable pieces to put by the curb for pick-up as well as cutting smaller pieces to dry and use as firewood. I read that a few months should dry it pretty good. So I guess we won't use it until the spring.
Anyway, it's 11:10p and I should get to bed because it's going to be morning in a heartbeat and I'll have to do it all over again. Tomorrow's school, so that helps a little, but not really because I have to race home to put Emmeline down and then wake her up from her nap to pick Connor up.
Ugh.
