Sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it??!!

Well, Darling Husband, Pat, is away on an overnight business trip and the kids woke me at 7am. I had planned all along to stay up late and get a bunch of stuff done anyway.

So, I still have a few things to do, but here is how it went and it was wonderful!
My laundry is done-- I got all the main clothes done yesterday and last night and today were my Oxyclean Fest days--I still need to see if I got ALL the set in stains gone before I put the last batch in the dryer though! Just about 8 of Faith's little dresses that had stains from I don't know where, but since I heard that this stuff will remove set in stains, I decided to buy some and go for it! It has worked on SOME clothes, but not all!
My June DVD's are ready to be copied and sent out to family members! I even started recording a couple of July ones!
I've got 4 "Thank You " Cards completed, thanks to my sticker genius, Faith! I just bought a set of stickers that has 4 sets of Thank you's in different languages and had her put them on precut  white cardstock and then I glued them on to colored cardstock! ( I precut them today as well!). All I need to do now is write the message and address the envelopes!
Got a couple of items put out in the garage-- a computer, which was not as heavy and cumbersome as I thought as it was in several pieces-- and there was already a handsome little niche for it anyway! Took me a few hours and about 4 trips as I took it downstairs each time I felt a burst of " nesting energy". Also took a fan down there. These things were in our homeschool closet which will hopefully be the recipient of some cheap bookshelves and lots of rubbermaid soon!
Finished digitizing one of my old music tapes!  and then did a few little tapes of Faith playing and talking last year. I really need to keep recording her and Isaiah!!! Why aren't car stereo's equipped with "record" buttons? Tha's where you get the best stuff from the "mouths of babes"!

I went out and bought new bobbins and some neutral thread for some sewing projects I want to get out of the way! My cutting table is almost cleaned off! I think that with Mom and Dad here this week, I can possibly get it officially cleaned off and put away somewhere (NOT THE HOMESCHOOL CLOSET!!!) and then put in that corner the pack'n'play bassinette set up for the new little man that's coming soon! I'm hesitant about setting the moses basket in there because Faith will try to claim it for her dollies!


So, it doesn't look like a whole lot that I got done- I didn't make any beds nor dust, but I can do that tomorrow because my sanity stuff is done-oh, and there are NO dishes in my sink either! oh yeah, my kids were in jammies until 1:00pm, but they were helping Me (remember the thank you notes?? Plus Faith got 5 sour candies for picking up all the plastic containers that Isaiah threw out of the kitchen drawer!)
So considering that my daughter did not mother her brother to complete pieces and they both got fed today (heee heee... on paper plates on the porch!! Hey! This "picnic" idea is something they love and so do I--keeps my house clean!) and I did all of this in the strength that God gave me today ( in between heartburn incidents and more heartburn...)

So, now what?
Well, I am going to grab that laundry and a bag of chips. I'm going to go upstairs and watch a movie based on Beatrix Potter's life! While I do that, my pics that I slip into DVD cases will be printing out and I will put those in after I hang Faith's Oxyclean miracle dresses on hangers!!!
 It is now tomorrow, but I have been setting apart this day for getting all this stuff done!
I also need to bring in the garbage cans, but I have waited until late to do that since I don't like to go out of the house unless I KNOW my wee ones are completley zonkedified out!

Later, in about 8 hours from now, I will probably be working on getting my sewing table cleared off as a place to do diapers in a few weeks AND while the folks are here, I need to go through all of Isaiah's longsleeved clothes that are marked 12 mo. to make room for his newer stuff!

In about 11 hours, we will be waiting at the airport for Pat coming home from his trip and two hours aftter that, my folks will be here and enjoying supervising popsicles in the backyard!

Will I be taking a nap then? Not on your life! I'M ON A ROLL!

 I will probably not be taking any "real" naps until I am hit by excruciating after birth pains while nursing the newest...

This is obviously not the life of an exciting superstar, but it's better than that because it's a mom's life!!
So, I'll catch you all later!
Hopefully sometime later this week and let you know the progress!