We've been so busy

Anyone that knows me knows that I have plans for everything :)  When we got married we decided to be married 1 year before getting pregnant... and that is exactly what happened.  We celebrated our first anniversary on July 14th, 2008 and found out we were pregnanct 2 weeks later :)  This time we decided we would love a baby with a summer birthday.  And thankfully that plan worked too.  We are expecting baby #2 in late June 2011!!!

If you remember from quite a few months back, I had said that I would start cloth diapering if I could be a stay at home mommy.  Then within days of each other I win 3 cloth diaper giveaways and my wonderful hubby gets a job offer that lets me be a stay at home mommy.  I always figured that winning the cloth diaper giveaways was a sign.  So then about 2 months ago I win a maternity t-shirt from cafepress.com.  It was too early to take a take, but as soon as I could I did... and it was positive.  What fun and what crazy coincidences, right?

Anyway, I have been super busy lately trying to just keep up with housework, emails (I think I have over 100 unread emails from blogs that I follow), actual web development work stuff, potty training, and now my mind just seems to always wander to the miracle growing inside of me :)  The one thing that actually has been taking up a ton of my time is C's scrapbook.  For the longest time I have wanted to work on it, it was complete through the pregnancy to the day he was born... that's it... and he is 19 months old!  I needed to get it up to date if I was ever going to be able to start one for the new baby too.  So I have spent a ton of time working on it and now I have completed through New Year's!  Yeah, I am so happy.  For the 1st year there is a lot in it, but beyond that it will just be major stuff, like holidays and stuff, so I don't have much left to do before I am completely up to date.

My Dreamy Mondays... errr.... Tuesdays

How is it that being home full-time I still barely have time to get anything done?  The housework is actually not a problem because C loves to help with laundry and vacuuming... in fact, the vacuum is one of his favorite items.  But it seems that I have no time to get on the computer to check emails, research, make posts (as you know - sorry), enter giveaways, or anything else.  When I do have time for the computer, it is to log into my work computer and get actual work done.  A friend of mine was telling me about a schedule she wrote up for her and her kids to balance their activities during the day, so that she gets in music time, alphabet activities, crafts, etc.  I was thinking I need something similar because sometimes the day goes by so fast and I realize after C's asleep that we didn't do flashcards, or we didn't build, etc., so I asked her to send it to me.  As I'm looking at it, I'm thinking... wow, and I thought I was organized and liked to plan.  Then I tell K about it and he says... is she a super-mom?  So, I took her schedule and changed it a little bit to fit for C and I... and yet I am still wondering a little if I'll be able to keep up with it all.  Although it's not like I'm going to set a timer and be a drill sergeant, it's just a good guideline for the day.

Some of the things I've needed to research that I finally found the time to do:
     -Washing Cloth Diapers in a front-load HE machine.  I love cloth diapering C, every time I pick up a diaper I think, "cool, this is so soft, it must be so comfy for him".  Yet, after the first couple times of washing them... I started feeling like they didn't smell completely clean.  They didn't smell bad, just not totally fresh... maybe a little musty smelling.  So, I finally was able to look that up and I think we found a solution that works... we'll see.
     -Next, I wanted to look up a potty seat for C.  We currently have this one for his bathroom:

But I wanted one that was more like an all-in-one for our main floor half-bathroom.  All I could find were ones for round toilets and ours are all elongated.  Then, I finally found this one:

     -The other thing I really wanted to find was a cute t-shirt for C to wear to announce him becoming a big brother... if we get pregnant again.  There are lots of sites out there, but my personal favorite design was this one at Cookie Baby Inc.:

Now, will we really order it?  I don't know.  I'd like to but we're not pregnant yet and I don't want to jinx us.  But if I wait until we're pregnant... we won't be able to use it as the way we let our family know... because we could never wait that long (the whole week for it to ship) to tell them.  So, we'll see, but at least I found a design we really like.

Whew... I feel so much better now getting this post written and this stuff researched and the schedule done.  I still need to look up AT&T U-Verse which just became available to our area, because K has been wanting it forever so we might switch.  Also, I need to look up diaper sprayers - I am not one for the dunk and swish method.  It's okay temporarily, but I'd like a sprayer.  Any suggestions on a good brand that isn't too expensive?