Our Island Family Life: cleaning

Thursday, December 10, 2009

No news, good news.

2 comments Posted by perphila at 12:02 PM

So far no more "helpful" news from Sean. I can only hope the trend continues.

I cleaned all morning. Work was canceled again. Only made $90 this week. I am cranking up a notch on my worry level. Trying to shove it away. I put up most of the decorations today as well. My itty bitty fake tree is on my buffet with a few presents that were given to us around it. I don't think I will be getting a tree again this year. Too much money. Sofie liked it so that's all that matters.

I am going to try and make sure I make things as stress free this afternoon as possible. Tomorrow is going to be a long day. Therapy and shopping for the island Christmas party.

This morning Will said he is thinking of going back to see his counselor. He is feeling very unmotivated and it concerns him. At least he recognizes it. So, I guess things are going to get very busy again for us all and the therapy biz. On the up side he is socializing more. He asked if he could have some friends out for New Years eve. We have been doing a Chinese take out and board game tradition for years now. Before Cade was born. I am looking more forward to that than Christmas.

Time for play practice....

Friday, November 13, 2009

Mixed Feelings

0 comments Posted by perphila at 7:37 AM

I did my linens yesterday in preparation for my company this weekend. Also, since Sofie was sick I had to do her sheets anyway. I really loved going to bed last night. My sheets felt so nice and smelled so good. I always love that feeling.

Sofie was a handful yesterday. She was grumpy and didn't want to take a nap. Finally at 5pm I got her settled. I knew it was late for a nap but she really needed it. As it turned out she slept all the way until 5:30 this morning. She is fine now.

I was able to do Will's conference yesterday after all. His crew leader is the principal and he called and asked if we could do it by speakerphone. Nice. So we did and Will is doing great. Connor's teacher had to catch a plane after school so she said we might do the same thing next week. I like that but I am going to see if she can see me anyway. I want to put Connor on the spot a little.

Cade and Sofie have to go on a visit this weekend. Since Sofie is better I am going to let her go. She isn't very happy about going. She is also sad to be missing my friends visit and her dog. Cade is also a bit snarly about it but that's mostly because he knows his dad will want to tell him off for not calling him back. I told Cade he made the choice to not call his dad back and that does come with the consequence of having a "talk" with dad. If dad gets out of hand with the talk by giving out guilt trips or name calling then that is NOT his fault. I told him if possible he should try and tell his dad why he doesn't like talking to him. The old thing about how his dad can't do anything about things he doesn't know about discussion. It's getting old because even though the kids tell him he never does anything about his behavior. I just remind them that if they do everything they can then they will know they tried and will never look back with regret. It's kind of a hard idea for them to grasp because that is a long term thing and they have no basis yet to really understand it. Someday I hope they understand.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Back Home

0 comments Posted by perphila at 12:52 PM

I was gone the past few days. I came home late on Saturday and slept well. Yesterday I cleaned, cleaned, cleaned. Not that the place was a wreak but still... I got caught up on almost all my tv shows I like. It was background to the cleaning. I vacuumed during commercials. I did laundry the whole day. I even deep cleaned things like the toaster and other odd and ends. I was working on the upstairs today but I have a headache now and thought I would take a little break. I didn't get much sleep last night. I was congested. Hopefully I am not getting a cold. It's time to dig out the winter clothes. That will be a project I will start after the tylenol kicks in. In the mean time I am putting clothes away and making up beds and just putting things back in their proper places. It's been a trying week emotionally to say the very least. Tomorrow I get back to babysitting and finding out if I have the child support yet. I think this week will be quiet over all. I have one meeting on Wednesday for the PTC and the CIA. Cade has therapy on Friday so I will do my food shopping then. There is also swim for Cade and Sofie. All the kids will be home this weekend which will be nice. Hopefully the island car will be fixed this week. It just is totally dead now. I have a mechanic looking at it sometime this week and he won't charge me. Sweet. I am getting two new books to read on Tuesday. Connor should have gotten them for me on Saturday from the post office but he just brought home the yellow slip and didn't pick up the package. I know I am teetering on an emotional cusp when I found out he spaced it I was so bummed out I almost cried. I was really looking forward to relaxing and reading at least one of them this weekend. Instead I cleaned like a demon. I was on my hands and knees so much my knees were actually red and nasty by the end of the day. I "channeled" my sad feelings into OCD...:) It feels real good though to be in a clean house I must say. I need to go through paperwork this week and I really don't want to do that. I would rather wash windows or clean the toilet. Oh well. I did that already. Maybe I will take an hour to myself this afternoon before Sofie and Cade come home. They stayed and extra day with their dad because of the holiday. Connor talked with his dad about maybe coming over but never did. Connor would rather talk with his friends. I don't blame him.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Day Off

2 comments Posted by perphila at 12:20 PM

I woke up with a snarling headache this morning. I slept well. So I have no clue why I woke up with it. Still, I don't mind too much since I don't have to clean the house I was thinking of doing today. I can do it later this week. It is stinking hot again today and I really didn't want to anyway. I did clean my house a little though. I dusted and vacuumed the upstairs and reorganized some stuff and checked out the school supplies box so I know what I need to get for sure on Tuesday. My list is a bit longer than I had thought but not by much. I do have to spring for a pen drive for Connor. I think the school should have some for people who can't afford them. When pen drives, laptops and calculators cost the same as pencils then that will be ok. Ha. Anyway, I also did some stuff I normally do like laundry but I haven't been pushing it and I am still in my jammies. Way cooler than getting dressed. A summer neighbor came over and dropped off some extra food for us which was nice and I got another job from them to clean up after they close. Sweet. Now I am doing some stuff on the computer and you will pry me off today with a crowbar. I have fun stuff to do which is way backed up but I also have important stuff to do like checking out the classes I am thinking about and checking my bank account yada yada. I do one fun thing then on stressful thing and it keeps me from making my headache worse. Stress does NOT help. Neither does the heat which is why I am not going on a cleaning frenzy. Gosh knows the house needs it.

I saw the coolest thing on tv today while Sofie and I shared a bowl of cereal. There are these toys that look like hamsters and they move around and are all fuzzy. They come with all the trappings like a real hamster. The round exercise ball and tunnels and carrying case (we had these things when we had gerbils). It was kinda neat. It would be interesting to get it for Sofie since we aren't allowed pets here but it is so realistic WITHOUT the mess. You can "feed" them everyday of course and "clean up" after them. I wonder if it would be good for her? Speaking of pets, I also wonder if the school here might get a school pet this year. They didn't before because we had a kid who was allergic to just about everything. Maybe a fish or something for when she visits her sister? I dunno.

I am slowly adding links to the places I surf to. That will take a while to do I think. I am also looking around to change the background. It's kind boring. I am not having luck finding anything I like or when I do it doesn't upload properly. I stink at HTML and frankly it is something I want to learn. Still, now isn't the right time. So I hunt.