raspberry mornings, missing mojo, and a simple promise

mornings in my house are typically slow and sleepy...i tend to be more of a night owl and sleep as long as possible the next morning. my kids have also been pretty late sleepers. lately due to my shortened patience with my 3 yr old... ive been trying to get the kids in bed earlier giving me an hour or 2 of peace each evening. i admit it has been really nice. i have always been one to internally roll my eyes at other moms who complain about their kids who get up at the crack of dawn, but in turn put them to bed at like 7 oclock... it is a big DUH to me (and im sorry if you are one of those moms), but dont expect to sleep in the morning if you are putting them to bed so early. kudos to those who love mornings that early... my brain doesnt often function then.  so as a result of getting my kids to bed early i in turn have to also not stay up so late so i dont become one of the moms i criticise. my 6 month old however seems to be like clockwork, no matter what time he falls asleep... 7 am rolls around he is awake and ready to get up. ughhh...most of the time... this morning, for one reason or another-still unknown to me (im sure a nap will be in my future today) i was wide awake...about 5 am my daughter crawled into bed with my husband and i and fell back asleep. i love it when she scoots all the way onto my pillow and throws her arm around my neck, forehead to forehead...so we dozed for anothe couple hours...7 rolls around, and ruslting can be heard from the crib in the corner of my room... the kicking of his little legs against the mattress and the little grunts as he rolls his roundness around in there is a happy warning that he is about to yell for someone... but this morning- no yelling- just happy babbling, and a newly learned noise...blowing slobber raspberries... laying in bed with my still drowsy 3 yr old and passed asleep hubby, i had to giggle quietly, as to not wake them... but it was such a happy sound, that i usually wish happened later in the morning...  but this morning was different.
     after an impressive amount of time of him babbling and playing happily by himself, he started to get restless so i got him out of bed...by this time courtney was also awake and her and i had been talking and cuddling still in bed...mike still zombieish and sleeping...lol... so i brought mason to the bed with us... sat him up between me and courtney, his face beaming with smiles for his big sister all up in his face... hearing courtneys radio in her room still playing the peaceful lullabies cd in the background, and the babble and banter of my 2 little ones, pondering the possibilities that the day holds, i realized just how blessed i am... minus my 12 yr old who had already headed out the door for the bus stop i had everything in the world that was most important to me right there.  now- my friends and other family is also very very very important to me, but my heart was right there with me...
  so it was a wonderful start to the day...

now- i feel motivated to get something accomplished in the house today... our plan was to tackle a room a day to get organized... that hasnt started happening yet, but i think today might be the start of a 2 day room...(2 days rather than 1 makes it seem actually possible-not that it is undoable in a day, but lets take baby steps so i dont overwhelm myself and chuck the whole project) the front living room...not a room regularly used in our family, but its not one of those old fashioned never touched just looks pretty rooms either... we have a desk which is a major catch all, couch, chair, wall unit bookshelf, and the front corner is my scrapbooking area, which i might add is laden with inches of dust most likely... something else i really really want to get back into. our wii is in this room also, and im sure it would be used more if we had room to move around in there... the room has become a catch all of itself for clutter that we have shuffled out of other rooms, with the good intentions of getting back to...hah- never happened.  the entertainment center that holds our wii, also houses my photo boxes filled with all our old photos of my childhood, and such...since courtney has started her ballet class, i have recently promised her to find my old ballet picture for her, so that is a goal for me in this room... get it cleaned up, and find that pic for her... and in turn if the room gets done, i can set up my portable table and tackle organizing my scrapbook stuff- any one wanna help ??? lol  maybe my scrapbook mojo that i lst will be found in the clutter of the room... we will soon find out...

so, here is to a hopefully productive day, at least until it is time to go to ballet.  btw- i got my one-minute cleaning book the other day! i was so excited... so many great tips in there that make my house seem very non-daunting, and approachable to get clean and organized!!!

hope everyone has a great day!    till i ramble again...xoxo