It's already hump day and it seems like I just can't get myself over this hump today.  Everything seems to be working in slow motion and nothing seems to be on track the way I like it to be.  The added nasal congestion that hit me yesterday isn't helping at all.  I know it's a phase and that it will pass.  I just wish it was sooner rather than later.  How do you beat your blues???

I try to keep busy and keep going, even if things arn't going the way I want them to.  I usually turn to…

It's monday and it's time for Clean Up Monday in our house.  Today is actually an easy one for me since we were away for the weekend.  The girls didn't have all that much time to turn the house up side down and inside out.  The one thing that I did come back with is a suitcase to empty and a whole lot of laundry to do.  It's amazing how much laundry a family of four can produce over the span of 72 hours.

My first task was to empty the suitcase.  While we are away I usually bring along…

So we went and came back.  Two five hour car rides within 72 hours.  Two toddlers who barely slept the amount of time they should have.  And two toddlers not so happy to be leaving their aunty and baby cousin to be coming back home.  After all, it's so much more fun to be at aunty's house where rules can be broken and mommy doesn't have so much control.  Well, it's not that I don't have the control... I would say it's that I am more flexible in my rules and I let a lot of things go by.  It's…

Well more like our Jeep...  But we are going on a mini weekend trip.  Oh nothing very fancy, we are going to visit my sister-in-law, her hubby and my adorable little niece right across the border in Ontario.  I'm so very excited about it.  I don't really know why but I absolutely love getting in the car and driving to our destination and making it there in without too much frustration with the girls.  We usually manage pretty well.  I am always so proud of us!  I think it becomes kind of a…