11:30pm for me to go to sleep seems impossible. My ambien hasn’t even kicked in. I am watching the DVR’d “Bachelor: Women Tell All” and I am shamefully sucked in. I am trying to catch up on my Google Reader, looking around Facebook and Twitter, and thinking about the piled up sink of dishes waiting for me (in the morning, of course). I have so much to do and so much on my mind that even if I did lay down in bed, I’d still be up for another hour just listening to the craziness going on inside my head.

Tomorrow I am going back to decaf coffee in the morning. That’s it, I blame it all on caffeine.

Just need to figure out if I can get into my bed in the next four minutes and have it be worth it. Maybe I should ease myself into this sleep earlier creature… midnight might be the time tonight, then maybe 11:50 tomorrow, and ease myself back to 11:30.

Wait… We have a problem. Spring forward. Is all gonna come crashing down on March 11th which is when daylight savings time begins. Damn. This means that my 11:30 goal will become a 10:30 inside my body. Ok, this is so totally not going to work.

This is my new MEME – Monday Madness Mayhem.

Mondays are when my life gets turned upside down after a weekend of destruction of the house. My “to do ” list begins on Monday and I thought I would share today the things that are on my plate starting today and for the week to come. It is an especially important list because Al’s official 5th birthday party is this coming Saturday at our house.

1. Finish laundry daily (yes, if I keep up with it then I may have a load or two per day): and by “finish” I mean wash, dry, fold, hang and put away.

2. Clean the downstairs bathroom. That bathroom is the one that is attached to the laundry room right when you come in from the garage so it gets the most yuck in it and all over it.

3. Clean the downstairs family room!!! So embarassing…

4. Go through last week’s paperwork. It is piled up on my couch (as you can see in the picture above) and depending on the piece of paperwork, needs to be thrown out, shredded, paid, or filed.

5. Do the dishes. Doesn’t seem like a big deal, but I have to skinny down the amount of dishes I have because they are not all fitting in the cupboards and drawers anymore. My Starbucks cup fell out the other day when I opened the cupboard and smashed on the counter. It had no room to be there in the first place.

6. Go grocery shopping. This actually takes a bit of time on my part because I am that OCD list maker type and I have three weeks of coupons to cut out of my Sunday papers and file them in my “extreme couponing” binder. Yeah, I’m that crazy lady at the cash register.

7. Get my TAXES FINISHED! I have had everything ready in a big file called “Taxes 2011″ but I haven’t filled out that damn organizer thing that I need to send to my tax man. This is a total procrastination on my part.

8. Clean the upstairs main area. This includes dusting my living room, washing the leather couches, vacuuming, cleaning off the dining room table and wiping down the entire kitchen.

9.Clean and organize the upstairs main bathroom. OMG, this is a big one that I have again been procrastinating about, but I have to have it done by Saturday.

10. Try to go to get to sleep everyday before 11:30pm this week. I will report back on Sunday to make myself accountable for this one.

Ok, wish me luck! I technically have 6 days this week to get this Mayhem in order somehow.

Monster Jam at Ford Field last night was awesome! We were at the Party in the Pits from 2-5pm and the boys were able to get their shirts autographed by most of the drivers.

They had so much fun and I was so happy that I was able to somehow keep up with them. Adrenaline and smiling kids’ faces do a lot for the body.

We then stayed the night in Dundee, MI so that we could go to Cabela’s, an outdoor specialty store for hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor recreation merchandise. Definitely my hubby’s style.

So, my husband was able to splurge on a bunch of things he needed, including some nice camo designed things. I decided not to be left out and thought to myself that I really needed a baseball cap anyway for those days when I feel like covering up my hair. And so what did I find? A sexy camo-themed hat so that I didn’t feel left out of the fun.


Because you know how important it is to blend in with the hot pink brush whenever I am hunting in the woods. And ok, I admit that I also bought a realtree camo baby-t but I had put it in the wash right when my husband decided to take this picture.