Brilliance, Excellence and Timing...

McDonalds is smart but Jilian is brilliant. Today for the 5th time since I heard what Jill does for kitchen cloths, I took freshly bleached and washed cloths out of the dryer, folded them neatly, put them into the closet and set the bag back into the pantry awaiting a new batch of soiled cloths. Here's what she does and now I do... I use a cloth. If it gets too dirty (stinky is waaay beyond dirty so it's not that bad) I rince it out, wring it out and place it into a reuseable shopping bag...you know, the ones that cost 99 cents. Then I walk over to the linen closet and take a fresh cloth. This works for the kitchen towels too, but they just get used for 2 days and then tossed into the bag. Once I get down to 2 or 3 cloths, I take the whole lot down to the laundry room, wash and dry them and start the process all over again. This ends the whole, "WHAT is that smell, ewwwww, it's a cloth in the sink."

Today was excellent for a few reasons. Sam started Kindergarten. Have I mentioned how HAPPY I am for me, I mean him ;) Tonight Kevin and I put into the freezer 3 shepherds pies bring our total of those up to 4. I think I am going to try my hand at freezing Tourtiere, but I am unsure about the crust... we'll see...Denise makes AMAZING chichen pie and the crust is JUST fine so I think I will just go ahead and do the Tourtiere. Gosh I am happy about that. I cleaned up my kitchen after our cooking project only to make a clean spot so, in all my pickyness and armed with a new pack of Kirkland wipes, I wiped down the cupboards the front of the oven and the front of the dishwasher. I told Kevin that some women feel good about themselves when the get a haircut, or pedicure or new clothes. Don't get me wrong, I feel GREAT when theose things are a reality for me, but honestly I feel good about my WHOLE self when I have clean cupboard doors. I really which that the timing for having Paige will include that this burst of energy will include GIVING BIRTH, because I have SO SO SO SO MUCH of it, but my poor legs are puffed up and swollen and cannot handle it with the weight of her on them.

I want my body back. This may sound shallow and I think most of the time that we hear it, it sorta is. I said it a LOT after having Austin, Sam and then The Twins. I don't mean the look of my body this time AT ALL. I just want to scrub my floor on my hands and knees, get into all the nooks and cranies with a small brush, vacuum the stairs without thinking I might hurt myself and well, gosh, I would LOVE to get to vacuuming the living room...I want the pain to come now. I am so ready for it and so so so just wanting to not only do the stuff I want to (but also need to do) I want to nurse and cuddle and show off my very best asked for gift...my little princess....THANK YOU GOD.