Our days are looking very disjointed these days, but here is some of the randomness…

…on and off schoolwork.  I think we’ve been accomplishing what amounts to about 2 days of school each week for the past month and a half.  It’s not what I had hoped for, but it’s adding up enough to give me a little buffer when the baby comes.

…Elijah deciding in the past 2 days that he wants to start using the potty.  Not the best timing, but we’ll see how it goes.

…random housework on my part and attempts to get children to do the more “normal” things like vacuuming and dusting.  Not the most effective combination, but it’s the best I can manage with little sleep, a huge belly, and persistent nausea.

…piles of cucumbers accumulating, making the necessity of pickle-making loom ever larger on my list of to-do’s.

…attempts to have special moments with each of my kids.  As always at the end of pregnancy, I feel a twinge of guilt at how much of my time a new baby will take away from the older kids, and it makes me sad.

…hunting flies.  We’ve gotten a lot of them in our house lately (could have something to do with the less-than-airtight quality the back of our house currently possesses) and they are really annoying.  Thankfully, successfully killing flies seems to offer a great sense of accomplishment for my kiddos.

…watching cooking shows.  Just because.

…waiting.  As much as I know I shouldn’t be impatient yet, I am.  I lack motivation for most things that should probably get done, and I just want to be past the unpleasantness and “unknown” of labor, with a baby to care for and the opportunity to figure out how life will work with 7 of us.