March 2009 - Complete Chaos!

I know, I know. I'm sorry. I've practically fallen off the face of the earth. I can honestly say I haven't had a spare minute to do anything. You read my sob story earlier that summed up all the bad news we had had as of the beginning of the month. Well, very few things got worse, but we definitely added to the chaos. Here's the part of the list I can remember.

• At least two appointments (doctor/dentist/school) of one type or another every week this month. 
  
• Caught a couple of the bugs going around, although we've also managed to avoid a couple (let's pray it stays that way). 
  
• Tended Anthony extra days in the week, which always just adds to the chaos in my days.
  
• Trip to Idaho to visit my sister and help with birds (they have pheasants and had to catch and deliver them)
  
• More birthday celebrations (pictures to come later)
  
• Demolition of kitchen/dining room (and of course we did things the hard way - ripped out linoleum only to find out we needed to rip out the floor under it too...good times)
  
• Started laying tile
  
• Lived for a week with my refrigerator in the living room, tile everywhere, and just an overall mess
  
• Two Treehouse Museum trips, a couple trips to the park, hundreds of laps around the cul-de-sac and whatever else we could do to stay out of the torn-up house as much as possible during the day
  
• Started painting dining room/kitchen/living room (realized pretty early that none of that could happen during hours the children were awake - needless to say we haven't had nearly enough sleep the last few weeks)
  
• Finished laying tile, started a new smaller tile project only to realize we don't know how to lay the carpet back down (anybody know someone that can lay existing carpet back down really cheap?)
  
• Grouted (to grout...is that a verb or only a noun?)
  

Still To Do

• Finish grouting one last little tile project
  
• Buy new baseboards and paint them before next Saturday when my brother-in-law can hang them
  
• Finish painting living room and up the hallway upstairs
  
• Two more appointments (one per kid) this week and more next week
  
• Figure out a way to fix meals without a stove/oven for at least 4 days, maybe a week without spending any more money (the project money is going fast)
  
• Find someone to lay the carpet back down so we can put the couches back and pretend to live here this week
  
• Figure out when and with whom we will complete the second half of the remodeling project (living room/entry flooring)
  
• Clean EVERYTHING - tiling is much dustier than I realized. My once clean house has a layer covering everything I own
  
• Get some sleep
  
• Get back to the gym
  

So I'll be back and trying to catch up on blogging as soon as I can. Don't give up on me yet. I'm certain the level of chaos around here cannot remain permanently. I doubt I could handle it physically, mentally or emotionally! :)