Werk.

Now that I'm on break for a month, I'm noticing how neglected everything gets when I'm in school. Yesterday I finally went to the OBGYN, which I had been rescheduling for the past couple months. Had lunch with my sister in law.. Can't remember the last time I had lunch with an adult. Then Shamus and I went to the big library. Mocha (Museum of Children's Art) is doing these free art classes every week. It was World Turtle Day so everyone made watercolor turtles. Shamus was by far the youngest kid but I thought his turned out beautifully. Everyone else had green turtles in a blue ocean. Shamus made his rainbow. They are proudly displayed on our refrigerator. It was so nice having time together to do something purely for fun.

After we got home from a loooong day of running errands, I cooked a real dinner and everyone sat and ate together. These are things I miss terribly. I can't wait until the day that we all work and go to school during the same hours and can come home and be in the same place. I hope those of you who have that don't take it for granted.

I'm determined to catch up on the disturbing amounts of laundry around the house this week. My side of the bed had a massive stack of paperwork covering the entire floor that took me two hours to sort/ file/ throw out. I was thinking about targeting a different room of the house every day and just cleaning my heart out until it looks great. I could document my progress with before and after pictures. Though, honestly, the idea of anyone seeing the condition my house is in currently fills me with serious dread.

On a more fun note, I'm going to make an effort to read books that aren't comic books. Haven't made progress on my 2012 reading list in a while. When I chose it, I wasn't aware yet I'd spend most of 2012 pregnant and there's only so many books about rape, murder, and the Holocaust you can read before it starts to wear you down. After picking up some of the less heinous ones at the library, I found a couple little moments to read here and there yesterday while I was hanging around school. I was getting funny looks.. Doesn't that seem strange getting stares for reading on a college campus? Now I've put it together it might be the fact that a rather pregnant woman was reading Rosemary's Baby.. Maybe.