It's also pretty impossible to get anything done on the weekends when Jarmila isn't here -- between the two kids, one of them needs something roughly every fifteen minutes. So if I'm very assiduous, I can keep the house relatively clean; you can clean a house in 5-15 minute chunks of time, although it's a little frustrating to have to keep stopping scrubbing to pick up a howling baby. But anything that requires more concentrated thought or time just isn't possible. In theory, I could work while Kevin watches the kids, or vice versa, but we're both so tired from the nights up with the baby that when we're both awake, we tend to split kid-watching, because we're just too exhausted to want to try to watch both kids while the other works.
So my backlog continues unabated; I'm going to try to make some serious progress on it today. Jarmila just took the kids out to the park; I've edited and posted Halloween photos so far (still need to upload them to Flickr and order prints for my mother and file the originals). Here's the rest of the list:
- check Pam's references (first one checked was glowing, yay)
- send evite for belated housewarming / baby welcome
- send spring course descriptions
- finish crits for class
- grade portfolios
- get library card and kitchen design books/magazines
- visit Oak Park Historic Society and see what they have on our house
- check out Thibault wallpaper at JC Licht
- make keys
- get dog food
- call trash company and turn it off at big house so we don't keep getting charged for it
- call gas and get it turned on at house so contractors have heat
- sort dining table massive pile of urgent paperwork
- hang curtain rod and curtains in living room
- hang shelf in nursery
- do two loads of laundry