A fresh year!
Oh, bad blogger. I'm so terrible at blogging. Seriously. I know I'm going to wish I had been blogging though in the future, because I always have trouble remembering past events. I love going back to read my blog from when Jason and I first got married, and even the first year we lived here in Colorado. It's so much fun to see what I was thinking about. So I'll try again.
I updated my last post with what we've finished around the house. Honestly, it's been slow going lately. Since we spent two full weeks painting the place and then spent a whole week moving in, we haven't really felt motivated to do anything else. Blerg. I did however, FINALLY pick out some fabric for our curtains downstairs! Unfortunately, it's only available at IKEA and ours doesn't carry it. It was at the Dallas IKEA though, and my lovely friend Liz offered to pick it up for me. Here are the two fabrics I picked out for our two giant windows (one of them is a sliding door) downstairs. I'll be making the curtains once the fabric gets here.
Yes, we've gone with a green theme downstairs. We have a couple pops of peacock blue in there too, and I love it! It also goes perfectly with the chair that we found at our favourite home decorating store, West Elm, for 50% off! Booyah booyah. There's also a bit of yellow in the chair, so that helps bring in another color too so that it's not allll green.
I updated my last post with what we've finished around the house. Honestly, it's been slow going lately. Since we spent two full weeks painting the place and then spent a whole week moving in, we haven't really felt motivated to do anything else. Blerg. I did however, FINALLY pick out some fabric for our curtains downstairs! Unfortunately, it's only available at IKEA and ours doesn't carry it. It was at the Dallas IKEA though, and my lovely friend Liz offered to pick it up for me. Here are the two fabrics I picked out for our two giant windows (one of them is a sliding door) downstairs. I'll be making the curtains once the fabric gets here.
Other than the house, the other thing that has me completely falling over tired and busy is work. Yup, I'm back at work. You'd think that having 2.5 months off would make it easy to go back to work in the fall, but I think it makes it harder. It's so hard to get my body back in the routine of going all day long when I was used to making my own schedule and watching seasons of TV all day. I think I'll finally get into the swing of it this week...
It's also different because I'm at two schools now instead of just one like I was last year. I knew it would be different, and I knew it would be hard, but I didn't have any idea just how challenging it would be. I'm completely floored everyday, and it's more of a mental exhaustion than anything else. I've been coming home almost every day and getting back into bed. I really hope this part will get better because I don't know how I will survive the year if it continues. I feel like I'm completely in survival mode, and I know I can't do it forever. I'll keep you updated on how it's going. Right now, I'm having a really hard time staying positive, but I'm trying. I feel like I'm handling the pressure okay right now, but I need to make sure I keep balance.
So for now, I feel like I'm just treading water with working at two schools, giving SmartBoard trainings, tutoring a girl for the PSAT, church, friends, and making sure I have enough left at the end to be a good wife and spend time with Jason. Yes, there's a lot on my plate, but I think it'll let up in a few weeks... at least I hope so!
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