Once again I have been delinquent in my blogging responsibilities. At least now I have a good excuse because the last few weeks have been crazy busy. Memorial Day weekend I was in Chicago hanging out with several friends, the following weekend we had a Baby and Toddler class and this past weekend was the long awaited orientation for the adoption.
The home visit part of the home study process is June 16th, so I suspect this following weekend will be spent focused on The Purge. I only wish this week were cooler. It is going to be awfully unpleasant to be upstairs sorting through stuff when it is in the upper 80’s outside. And unfortunately, downstairs is only marginally cooler. Our house generally remains cooler than outside in the summer, but it was designed for a more typical Portland summer and not this post-global-climate-change version.
In other news, I am beginning to understand how all-consuming becoming a parent can be. I am some yet-to-be-determined time away from actually bringing a baby home and I find it has already taken up much of my spare brain power. Things may normalize once we are actually in the adoption pool and the wait begins. The Purge will continue, of course (apparently it will go on forever, or so says my friend who had a head start on me and is still at it 2+ years later). And there is some travel scheduled. And in between, there will just be a full on effort to distract myself.
In the distraction category, I still want to finish my Firefly embroidery project and I have a couple of new knitting projects floating around in my head. And in related news, David has convinced me to keep my loom and just store it in the basement until I am ready to come back to it. There is a piece of me that is thinking that it is just his packrat tendencies at work here. But the pragmatic part of me says that I am much more likely to go back to weaving if there is a loom in the house rather than having to drive over to the Multnomah Arts Center or purchase a new one.
Which reminds me that our basement is scary and is desperate for some attention. But, that will have to wait until our bedroom and the baby’s room are set up appropriately. Which brings me back to stressing about The Purge. Are you beginning to see a pattern here?