SATURDAY, JULY 25TH, 1998
Decisions, decisions...We're heavy into the house remodeling and I am a nervous wreck. It is so hard to make all the decisions that are required. For example, do I get the kitchen cabinents I really love that cost a fortune or get the O.K. cheap ones and have more money for other things??? Also, I am feeling very impatient. It just takes so much time to do everything. A lot of things are behind the scenes and require a lot of time and money without really showing any visable progress toward being a place in which we can live. So I'm feeling very frustrated. I know Mark is doing the best he can and I feel guilty that I am not being as supportive and patient as I wish I could be. Everything seems worse because we are having terrible plumbing problems at our regular house. We have been without water for most of the last week. Have to keep going back and forth from our house to the Harris's to make bottles, do laundry, bathe Julia and ourselves, wash hands, go to the bathroom, etc. etc. It is exhausting. Enough of the gloom and doom. Julia is doing marveously. She is really exploring everywhere now. So curious. And very happy most of the time. She is pulling up a lot and can balance herself better and better all the time. I think her fourth tooth is about to come through. Today she went swimming in her little pool. It was so much fun. I got her a cabbage patch doll in a bathing suit with pool toys. It floats and blows bubbles. So cute. Julia spent most of her time chewing on it and it's accesories. She has just recently starting chewing on things a lot. So much I have left out, but it is 1:00 a.m. and I must go to bed. Still having a lot of trouble finding time to do things like this. Have so many things to do on my "to do" list that never get done unless I stay up very late at night. Guess I will have to accept that everything will wait except Julia. More later (I hope)...
