I had a mini-meltdown today. Well, okay, Jonathan would say, "Where did that come from?" But trust me, it's been a long time coming. In the end, Tanner made a list of all the things that were weighing on me, and asked me to prioritize them. When I pointed out that every item on the list had been on a previous list of thing to get done about 5 months ago he frowned.
It's true that yesterday he fixed the leak in the roof. The roof that has been leaking since January 15th. And, three weeks ago he took out the windowless window that was on our list from before we moved here. Unfortunately, there was a lot of "other" things that needed to be done. Like fixing the girls' bunk bed so that they could each have their own bed instead of sharing a single twin matress. We bought the bunk beds in February. And then there is finishing the mudding of the walls, the rat in the attic, the fans for the bedrooms, the window that is nailed to sheet rock in order to keep the rain from pouring into the house, stuff like that.
Does that explain the meltdown? Far be it from me to say that Tanner hasn't been doing anything. As a matter of fact he's barely taken a breath of air, but everything seems to be coming to a head. Like Georgie crawling and shoving nails into her mouth makes it time to build the shed in the backyard. The shed that we started to build in March. There is just so much that needs to be done, and between working, going to school and sleep, there just isn't much time to work on the house. I do what I can, but I have to stop when Georgianna begins to scoop up sheet rock joint compound. Between kids, house and sleep, there just isn't much time to work on the "other" stuff.
So, in answer to Jonathan's, "where did that come from?" I shrug my shoulders and say, "you figure it out."
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