Monday again! What is going on lately? Hmm....well I successfully did not leave my townhouse Saturday in our pursuit of doing nothing. Truth be told I have a hard time doing 'nothing' at home, there is always something to do and I have this organizational nag that turns free time into closet make-overs. Luckily, things aren't looking too bad in the closets so vacuuming and laundry kept me busy enough. Sunday is a bit of a blurl, I played Hide and Seek with my 6 y.o. and proclaimed myself the winner when she gave up on looking for me. In her small defense I had a kick-ass hiding spot no one would have found me in: suspended above the door in the storage closet under the stairs. Yes, those activities have become my weekends.

I find myself at an age where I have friends in several stages of life/family cycles. I have married friends with no kids. They can go out, but usually don't. I have married with kids friends in full family mode that go to bed at 9pm and laugh when I ask if they want to go out, I'm leaving at 10pm. I also have single friends in their 20's still that party like they're still in college, because it wasn't that long ago. I think part of my organization-minded-self likes to put people in categories like I sort my m&m's. (My kid does that too). I do that with people and their styles, but I never felt like I fit into any one category no matter what criteria I'm using. I know I'm married with kid, but I honestly don't fit firmly in the all-about family because there is only one of her, she's self-sufficient and a late sleeper. This makes me realize that 2 kids is a definite tipping point in which you've become a 'family' person. I think I will stay with one toe dipping in that pool for now for my financial benefit.

Now the holidays are approaching (yet again) and it's hard for me to grasp just yet. Where did November go honestly? I am not ready to decorate the house for Christmas, period. That is just another thing that SUCKS about being a responsible adult and parent. (I'm actually not sure I've found anything that hasn't sucked compared to being a non-responsible college-kid, but I digress...) You just never know how much effort goes into everything until you have to do it yourself. I do go a little all-out for my Halloween decorating so maybe I'm just fatigued from doing all that pretty much solo up and down, breaking out the turkey-decor, the Christmas stuff is just sooooooooooo extensive. Not like, I have a million piece outdoor nativity with talking Jesus, it's just normal indoor stuff and I'm being whiny about having to do it already. A co-worker with a 2 y.o. doesn't even get a tree (no he's not Jewish) that is just too scrugey for me, not to mention I AM at my house for the entirety of the xmas holidays. Hopefully I will have eager helper(s) or at least semi-wlling even if begrudgingly.

I'm sure I'll find my xmas spirit when the time comes. I wasn't ready for Fall at first this year, but I guess like many things, when the time arrives, you'll be ready.