the essence

What a week. My old friend Caroline flew in last Thursday & stayed until Monday so we had a busy few days. Hopefully I can post more about with pictures later.

Yesterday was great. I cleaned quite a bit. I'm no where near finished but the place looks so much better now. The biggest thing is that a lot of the clutter has been taken care of & put away. I hate clutter, I feel so much better when things are tidy. I also did some vaccuming, dusting, dishes, & laundry & I pumped a bottle for Addison (she actually seems to be taking them pretty well now). Of course accomplishing all of those things in one day is quite a feat when you have an infant you're caring for as well. So, once she went down for a nap I finally took some time for myself. I actually feel like I earned it after all of the work I've been doing!

When the evening came I made chicken ttetrazzini for dinner, taught piano, & made some chocolate chip banana mini loaves & mini muffins. Yummy!