Do Work.

And it begins.

As you may have noticed, there has been a brief hiatus taken from blog-posting in the Milam household.  No, Meg hasn't given up or grown tired of blogging, there has just been a slight alteration to the "stay at home" line-up.  That's right, Meg is back at work planning conferences galore, and I am taking 2 1/2 months family leave from my full-time job to stay at home and earn my mommy wings.  And yes, one pre-requisite to obtaining the prestigious title of "Mr. Mom" in this house is being able to create a blog-post while taking care of little Bugaroni.  

So here we go...

So lets start this little adventure with a quick lesson on ambition.  As the time to start my leave drew near, I started to really pump myself up.  I started a note in my iPhone to keep track of all the things I was going to get done...

1. Rebuild my MTB wheels
2. Get the new piston in the XL350
3. Get a filing cabinet and organize our important documents
4. Build a bookshelf for the office
5. Etc, etc...

The list literally goes on and on.  Plus, I am still in class so studying is also a huge priority.  I couldn't wait to start cracking away at all the things I have been putting off.  I was going to have SO MUCH FREE TIME of course.  "I wasn't going to have to work for over 2 months" I thought to myself...  

"Ohh, and I'll take care of Nolan too while doing all these other things"

WRONG.

Let's rewind.  Meg and I are very sarcastic with each other all the time.  Pretty much every day after getting home from work for the last 3 months, I would say to Meg "Man, what did you do all day? watch Oprah?" 

Back to present.  Let's take a look at what "Mr. Ambitious" accomplished this Wednesday.  I was supposed to:

1. Go to the bank
2. Go grocery shopping
3. Do Nolan's laundry
4. Take the dog for a walk
5. Etc.

Here is what I actually got done:

1. Went to the laundry room to get laundry basket.

 2. I Moved laundry basket upstairs to Nolan's room.

Whallah! Boom! Shazam!

In 8 hours, I literally moved an empty laundry basket up one flight of stairs and left it there.

Meg walked in the door, I was still in sweatpants, Nolan was still in his pajamas from the night before, and no chores had been done.

 Meg was AAAA-MAZED.

Apparently, taking care of a baby is a little more work than I thought...  We had been talking about nicknaming Nolan "LJ" for Little Jon.  I have now started calling him "TW" for Time Warp, because I have no idea where the time goes when staying home with him...

But I have to say, even though he keeps me crazy busy, he is pretty darn awesome:

So, keep your fingers crossed, and maybe by the time of my next post I will have been able to change myself out of sweatpants...