Multi-Tasking Weekend

I like things order, cleanliness and efficiency. I dislike chaos, clutter and things that take forever. My husband chuckles at me when I scurry around the house, picking up this, putting away that, bouncing from room to room. He says I thrive on the "appearance of being busy." I would argue that I'm actually more productive, creative and efficient when I'm multi-tasking. My habits may border on the obsessive an compulsive side but, you can't argue with the results. I've been able to maintain my freakish ways through the addition of one child, in fact Sophia has heightened my sense of efficiency and honed my ability to multi-task. I like to call it uberorganized.

This weekend was a good test we had lots of places to be. It started on Friday with Sophia's doctors appointment, then to my parent's house to meet up with my Grandpa, Aunt and Uncle, dinner at a friends house. On Saturday we were up early, getting ready for my sister's college graduation, we got balloons, made signs and braved the large crowd with a stroller to watch her stand up and sit down. Then it was straight to my parents house for a BBQ and from there I snuck away for an hour and went to my high school reunion. Sunday was no less busy with church in the morning then a "pit-stop" at a friends house in the afternoon that turned into staying for dinner until 8:30 (of course those are the best kind of "pit-stops").

For the most part we were on time and prepared wherever we went. Sophia was a champ through the whole thing: she took the bottle in the middle of graduation, napped in the pack n' play at my parents and was only fussy on Sunday night. The only thing that "suffered" this weekend was my running and the laundry. I don't feel so bad about the running part, because, technically all the "running around" we did this weekend counted for some sort of workout--surely the part where I walked a half mile in my platform heels back and forth from our parking spot to the graduation counted for something. As far as the laundry goes, I attempted to tackle it Sunday night, but honestly was too tired. I fell asleep on the couch at 9pm, so I'm making little dents in it today--as I bounce back and forth from room to room trying to maintain uberorganization. I figure that I'll keep it up for as long as I can. I imagine that the addition of anymore children will greatly impede my multi-tasking abilities--which might be a good thing, maybe I need to slow down and actually enjoy life, rather than trying to get life done.