Making progress

Eli has started walking!! Albeit one step here, one step there but at least its progress. I am not going to mark it down in the baby book though until I see at least a 3-4 step consecutive thing happening. He now points to pretty much everything and goes "what's this?" and then "what's this?"- I think its a good positive step towards enriching vocabulary and him learning what everything is.

I have started to make some headway on my storage space- ritual cleansing for next baby- and that feels good. I made a firm 'to do' list of things I felt needed to be done before I could even try before next baby. So I am making headway on that and frankly I won't start trying if those aren't done because these things involve alot of physical labor I simply won't do when I am pregnant. So I either do them now or wait for a yr! Ha- and that's not going to happen.

It's really interesting as I am cleaning my stuff out I am going through older versions of myself. I know where I got a bunch of my books/records and I am really facing the question of to donate or not. It's like letting go of parts of me, but I have to realize I am an evolving person and those parts don't necessarily reflect who I am becoming (a mother). And all these things I give away I can get again somehow through a library or Netflix or online, but its still hard. I am at an odds with it. But I just have to beleive that these things will go to better homes than I can currently give them. My motto is going to be if I don't have space for them now, I am not going to have space for them in the future. And since Eli won't appreciate some of my books until you know he's 20, I doubt that I will have much time to pursue them...

Like I said its a work in progress but one I am happy that I am doing now :)