So when one half of a two-parent household is away, everyone knows it's all about treading water, holding the line, until parent 2 gets back. No one expects the stay behind parent to really get anything done, and only hopes things don't completely go to hell in a handbasket.
So no to-do list this weekend. I've still got two full days to go, so I shouldn't jinx myself, but I hoping I actually gain a teeny tiny bit of ground. Not a lot of ground, but just enough to feel like I accomplished something.
On Friday, during my hour in the basement, I managed to clear space in front of the door to our basement closet (oh yes, it's bad down there when the piles are actually blocking doors!) and I found the bulbs from last year. And they don't seem rotten, so worth trying to plant, let's see, 60 crocus bulbs, 20 tulips, and 12 daffodils. When I actually get some amount of them into the ground then I've got a thing done, but for now I'm just kinda pleased I found them.
But I did manage to collect a small shopping bag of trash, so that's 1 thing.
Then, today, my sister (who is here this weekend so it's not even like I am truly going solo while my husband jets off to warmer climes), took one look at Elizabeth's room and put her to work organizing it. There's a lot to be done, and I've been half heartedly planning to arrange some time when I'm not working but Elizabeth is with the nanny or at school to go through and just bulldoze that room into submission. But Jennifer somehow enticed Elizabeth into doing some actual organizing, minor sorting, and trashing of some of the excess - another small bag of trash, but hey, it's progress.
So that's two things for this weekend.
Not much, but I'll take it.
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Good luck holding down the fort until R gets back. When S is away, I count the trips by the number of wake-ups and bed-times I have to do alone. Hope you don't have too many more.
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