This is where we have been spending the vast majority of our time the past few days.  If I could just let absolutely everything else go, we’d probably be out there all day every day.  It’s not a bad place to hang out, especially with the great weather we’ve been having.  But I do need to fix a meal or throw a load of laundry in every now and again.  And it does need a good hosing down.  Look at the left over plant muck from last year on the green table!  Ewwwwwww.  I can’t understand how things get so unbelievably dirty out there and there are pine needles everywhere, all the time, no matter how much you sweep.  I would love it if the porch were screened and I could set it up as an outside “room”.  Someday.

I feel like there are so many things I want to get done before this baby arrives.  But then I think, in the grand scheme of things, do they matter all that much?  Probably not.  Is it important enough to drive myself crazy?  Definitely not.  So I am trying my best to just let it all be, let the chips fall where they may and roll with it.  Anybody who knows me very well would know that I am not very good at this sort of thing (and that’s probably putting it mildly).  I am not used to taking it easy, being this tired all the time, needing to take a break after every little thing I do.  I normally make a list of things I want done, I do them, mark them off the list, and then I make another list!  So these are uncharted waters for me, but I know that I am going to have to learn to let go or I will make myself insane, especially after baby comes.  Maybe next summer I can do it all, you know when I have a one year old and a five year old and all that free time.  Why are you laughing?