Sunday, August 23, 2015

I'm trying to take today with a much more positive attitude, but Matthew is about 5 steps ahead of me today, and it's making it a little difficult. I woke up this morning to him at his gate without his pull up on. He seemed to have something on his arm (dare I say...poop), so I ran him a bath. While he was bathing, I did a cleaning of his room (the bathroom and his room are right across from each other). I found poop on the floor and he had peed on the bed. So I got that mess cleaned up, and after he was out of the bath, I really started cleaning his room. I picked up all of the books, put away the toys, threw clothes into the hamper, etc.

I had Matthew nicely settled in the living room eating and watching Netflix when I decided to try and scrub his mattress with some baking soda. All quiet on that front. After the baking soda dried, I took the vacuum cleaner up to vacuum any extra soda up and vacuum the throw rug. I'd say I was up there for 7 minutes. That's way too long to leave a 2-year-old in another room. I came back downstairs and he had taken 100 pictures on my phone and plucked 9 keys off my keyboard. I deleted the pictures, but I still can't get 4 of the keys on my keyboard.

Nick and the older kids are up north, and I feel a bit overwhelmed with just Matthew here. I couldn't sleep last night, either. I think I finally fell asleep sometime after 2 a.m. It made me realize that I'm totally screwed should something ever happen to Nick.

So to end this on a positive note, here's a picture of the older kids and I when we were in downtown Stilly the other day.