1. Our neighbors to the west have foundation issues. They have had the foundation repair people out there a few times and there’s a GIANT crack in their house that we can see very clearly from our breakfast room and…I feel for these people. I do. Foundation troubles are expensive and no joke here in Texas. Serious, serious thing in terms of money and safety.
But. They have been watering their foundation and it’s getting a little excessive. RIVERS of water that run over the sidewalk and into the street! We are downhill from them and OUR ENTIRE YARD is squishy because of the water runoff. The west third of the yard is a mud pit. We can’t even take the trash cans out without walking through an inch of standing water (on our property).
I want to put myself in their shoes and understand why they’re watering it so much (it also must cost a FORTUNE to put that much water in the ground) but at the same time, if they’re also watering my foundation and my entire yard? That’s too much water. It’s also going to be a mosquito breeding ground pretty soon.
I think I’m going to have to go over there and…say something. I’m not sure WHAT, quite yet. “Stop making my yard so freaking MUDDY” is probably not going to work as an opening line.
2. Chris is putting the swingset together RIGHT NOW.
3. I was thinking about writing a post about having a spouse that works from home full time, while having three kids and a wife at home full time. I’m just thinking about it, though.
4. Preston likes to sleep on his stomach, on my bed, unswaddled, so nobody tell the Parenting Book Police about that, mmmkay?
5. He’s also eight weeks old. He smiles a lot and talks a lot (“ooooh!”) and has fallen into a pretty solid sleep/wake cycle. He continues to be awesome.
6. We started watching Homeland and OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS WHAT AN AWESOME SHOW THAT IS. Seriously, the best new show I’ve “discovered” in ages. We watched several episodes before I asked Chris, “Now, what channel did this air on?” because there’s, uh, adult content in it. Language. Naked people. That sort of thing. He thought it had aired on FX and as we kept watching I was like, “No, there is NO WAY this aired on FX! Is this what cable is now?? It’s been a while since I had cable but cable can’t be THIS racy, can it?”
Turns out it’s on Showtime. Yeah, that makes more sense.
(We are on Season 1, Episode 7, I think.)
7. I have to make dinner now. Which really means, “I have to heat up the frozen enchiladas.” IT’S ALL GLAMOROUS, ALL THE TIME HERE.
Mm
March 20, 2013 6:48 pm
Suggest a timer on the faucet. Maybe purchase one at Home Depot. I don’t think they are expensive
vanessa napolitano
March 20, 2013 7:35 pm
Does your husband work from home fulltime?
Courtney
March 20, 2013 8:23 pm
I won’t tell about the tummy sleeping if you don’t… Emory did it, and I’m pretty sure baby #2 will be doing it too!
Sarah in Ottawa
March 20, 2013 8:57 pm
I am very, very interested in that post. Why? No reason *whistles*.
Amy M
March 20, 2013 9:24 pm
I don’t get it. Why, if you have a crack in your foundation, would you water it? Maybe I’m just a silly Yankee but wouldn’t that just lead to water in your basement? Or…maybe you don’t have basements there??? I still don’t get it!
I didn’t know he works from home. I don’t think I could handle a work at home husband if I was home with the kids all day. Write the post. I’d love to hear how that works!
A'Dell
March 20, 2013 9:55 pm
Oh, we don’t have basements here! The idea is (I think) that it helps stabilize the soil. The soil here is sandy and shifts more easily than in other places (I…think. Something like that.)
And, it’s been really hot for the past two summers, which has made the ground literally crack. Like, gaps in the yard several inches wide and several parts of our in-ground sprinkler system have snapped due to the ground literally MOVING and SHIFTING the PVC pipe. (In West Texas? The gaps/cracks are big enough for cats to nap in.) So, if it does that to buried lawn sprinklers, it can crack/shift a foundation also.
Basically, we’re in a perpetual state of praying for rain.
Jesabes
March 21, 2013 12:10 am
Ooh, I didn’t know Chris worked from home. That sounds like a very interesting post.
april
March 21, 2013 7:57 am
I’m also interested in the WAH husband post (although this was good too, and PRESTON! SO CUTE!) My husband works from home three days a week, and sometimes later hours and sometimes Saturdays. When I’m home with the kids and he’s working in the office it drives me NUTS that he’s so close and yet can’t help at all. Nuts. On Saturdays I’ll just take the kids and leave the house for the day because I can’t handle it.
Is the swingset up? Do the kids adore it?
HereWeGoAJen
March 22, 2013 7:55 am
That’s a quality baby you’ve got there.
My husband used to work from home. I am pretty glad that he doesn’t any more.
Carrisa
March 24, 2013 9:19 am
Foundation problems are the worst. I have a giant crack in my living room floor that runs from one side of the room to the other. And I don’t know if we’ll ever have enough money to fix it. I’m pretty sure there’s not enough water on the planet to fix it. (not sure why they are watering so excessively)
We also recently discovered Homeland. Or actually, I got tired of being out of the loop so I resubscribed to the dvd part of Netflix and we just finished the first season. Next we are going to start Girls.
Life of a Doctor's Wife
March 24, 2013 10:49 am
I am REALLY curious about the work-from-home-spouse topic. Mainly because I worked from home for FOREVER and I would be curious how Chris does it with you and the kiddos around.
Your baby is such a cutie pie. He looks so HAPPY!
Arina
March 29, 2013 8:58 pm
John works from home. Sometimes, it’s great. Others? Not so much. It’s a constant adjustment, and he’s truly not clued into my struggle with it. To him, it’s all one big party.