on the cusp of … something
something about our dance parties just puts me in a great mood after a long day.
i love when you round the corner dancing to come into our main living area and you throw down your bag and bust out . . .
usually we hold the Dude to jam out, but tonight, he seemed like he wanted a little extra freedom, so you set him down on the dining room table.
watch out ladies, jackson’s got some MOVES!
thanks for dropin’ it like it’s hot tonight.
a little video ——-> dance party 5.17.10
most of the time, i think you are like your daddy: laid back personality, knows how to put on the charm, a little stubborn at times too (!)
but today, you were cracking me up during your naptime. you were laughing, and standing up/sitting down and crawling back and forth like you were in a race!
i watched you on the monitor as i was worked . . . all of a sudden you were totally still and i could only see two tiny feet in my monitor. i rushed in {quietly} to see if you had gotten stuck, but you had simply passed out mid-crawl. you were crouched up in a corner and your face was buried in your lion . . .
that’s how i usually fall asleep!! i work and work and work, and then all of a sudden, i think, oh my gosh, i’m exhausted, and i simply get in bed and close my eyes.
i love you, boo. you are my sweetie pie and i loved watching you sleep {however uncomfortably!} this afternoon.
a lot of my clients/friends ask me how i structure my days to handle working at home and taking care of jackson.
i decided to document the day’s events . . . it’s pretty detailed (!), but at least it gives you an insight to what i’m up to.
the preface: husband doesn’t work on wednesdays during the days, so he was a HUGE help today, and allowed me to go to a luncheon sans Jax. but typically, he would be with me through the rest of the activities.
second preface: the may fam is no stranger to busy days. in fact, i’m one of those gals that gets more done when i have more to do . . .
here goes.
6:45. Wake up to husband kissing me, telling me Good Morning and Goodbye. (he has guys breakfast at 7:00 on wednesdays)
7:00. Hear Jackson happily yelling for me to come get him.
7:15. Actually get out of bed and go get my little man. Change diaper/get him dressed/open all the blinds in the house together. This is our little morning routine.
7:30. Make coffee/breakfast for the both of us and check email on iphone while helping Jackson feed himself some toast and strawberries.
7:35. Realize I accidentally doubled booked my morning with an Occupational Therapy appointment for Jackson {9am at the house} and Girls Breakfast {8:30 at Mel’s house!}. Send a quick text to girls explaining and they graciously change the time to accommodate me! Thanks girls!
7:45. Fox Electric arrives to fix our ceiling fan that shakes. Bounce between monitoring the two men hanging out in our bedroom while I make sure the Dude doesn’t choke on the berries.
8:15. Play with Jackson for a bit in the living room/watch the Today Show as he plays.
8:30. Set Jax up in living room with some toys so I can sit at the computer to respond to some urgent client emails. Email back and forth with an illustrator from New York about partnering together for May Books (yay!) & followed up with another client about a custom May Book order.
8:55. Occupational Therapist arrives and we do a little paper work. She starts working with Jackson.
9:00. Hubby comes home and we sit and talk with the OT for a minute. Talk too long and realize I’m now late for my Girls Breakfast. Kiss the dudes goodbye and run to throw on an outfit that can work for a business luncheon later. Throw make up in a bag along with a hair brush and run out the door.
9:30. Arrive {late} to girls breakfast after putting make up on in the car {at red lights of course}.
9:45. Eat a muffin {or two!}, hold sweet Quinn, a 6 week old, and rest/chat with the girls.
11:25. Realize we’ve chatted far too long {loved it though!} and head out the door for my luncheon downtown at 11:45.
11:30. Return several phone calls in the car {thank you built in car blue tooth} and confirm landscaping date with my grandmother for later in the afternoon.
11:45. Find the perfect parking spot downtown in a metered spot, scrounge purse for quarters and run into the Polish luncheon. Set iphone timer so i’ll know when the meter is about to run out {genius iphone!}
12-1pm Enjoyed a fabulous meal and speaker at the Tower Club. Met a fabulous intellectual property attorney {been meaning to get a few things trademark/copyrighted!} and exchanged contact info. Timer goes off so I know I have 3 minutes to get myself and the big belly out of the bldg and to my car before a potential ticket . . .
1:15. Arrive home to find Jackson just waking from a nap {slept from 10:45 to 1:15!}. Love my sleepy snuggly guy. Got him out of the crib and fed him lunch/changed clothes, etc. {Jmay caught up on emails and made client phone calls.}
2pm: Drive to GranBy’s {she’s a landscaping guru and offered to help us pick out plans and give us tools!} and looked at plans/load tools into Jmay’s car. Jax showed her how he can crawl!
3-5: Nearly died from unexpected heat exhaustion at Lowes/Calloways, etc. buying plants for new spring/summer landscaping!! Whew it was hot.
5:15 Miscommunicated with the hubby about our next location {we drove 2 cars to Plano to accommodate plants} which actually worked out well. He checked on some knockout roses at another Lowes and I dealt with a Jackson melt down at Callaways. Bought some more plants while holding Jax on my big belly. Called hubby on the drive home and had him order pizza.
6pm Arrive home. Let Jackson unwind and cool down from being in the stroller/car seat by crawling around in his diaper/play with toys.
6:15: GranBy arrives and we all sit down to eat for 15 minutes . . . Jackson was CRAZY about the pizza! He made a royal mess, but loved every second of it.
6:30-7pm. I give Jackson a bath and put him to bed. Jmay and Granby survey the flower beds, deal with bees, and figure out why our yuca plants are dying.
7:15pm. Join the landscaping crew {GranBy and hubby} who discovered the flower beds are getting too much water. Jmay tests all the valves so we know which ones are which, and we label them as such and switch the settings.
7:30pm Kiss hubby and send him to work {he leads group at the halfway house on Wednesday nights until LATE} and said bye to GranBy, who knew all the right things to do with our yard!
7:30-8pm: Put a load of laundry in (I leave for NYC girls trip tomorrow!), wash dishes/clean kitchen/living room/office.
8:15: Search high and low for my lost May Book which has the address to a client I need to mail a custom May Book to (!!). Remembered having it at Discount Tire on Monday . . . . never found it, but cleaned out my car in the process.
8:30: Lay out all my May Books to take inventory and set up all the retail sales rep starter boxes!! Yay for hiring Dallas, Lubbock and Denver sales reps!
8:45: Back to checking/responding to emails: Schedule three meetings for Mica May Design clients for Monday and solidify plans for our Saturday dream session with the girls in New York! {more about this tomorrow!}
9:15. Check in for New York flight tomorrow and send a mobile boarding pass to my email! Double fist pump for www.AA.com being technologically savvy!
9:30. Design my Bump Diaries: Chapter 31 letter to Baby May. This is how/when I relax and unwind from the day.
10:30. Prepare May Books retail sales starter boxes for the reps. Itemize out the chosen patterns/box on a spreadsheet and label them. Put back on my display rack in my office.
{this is the plan for after I post this}
11pm. Take clothes out of washer and move to dryer (hang dry jeans).
11:15. Attempt to jump start my packing for NYC. {find suitcase/organize toiletries/move over diaper bag to purse/etc.}
11:45ish. Go check on Jackson and pray over him. Turn off the baby Coldplay music he goes to sleep to.
Midnight. Eat 2 frozen thin mints with a glass of milk and read on the Kindle until hubby comes home. Snuggle up with my best friend, pray for each other, our little ones, and friends/family and drift off to sleep.
i love that at the end of the night, we go to our respective “offices” and dork out on our computers for a minute. we catch up on the day’s worth of emails and blog posts and make sure each other are current on all the happenings around the world.
since we can’t see each other from where we sit, we have adapted very sophisticated forms of communication: shouting or emailing each other from a room away.
sometimes i’ll hear you cracking up and i’ll shout out, “What are you watching!?” so i can join in on the goodness but you don’t respond . . .
and that can only mean one thing: Bose Sound Cancelling Ear Phones. that’s when i know i have to email you to get your attention, because heaven forbid i GET UP from my chair to come see for myself.
hubby, i simply adore our email flirts. it’s something magical to look forward to at the end of the day.
you started crawling a few days ago!!
you were playing on the floor with your toys and i was eating cereal and i suddenly looked down and you were just crawling by! it’s SO like you to just all of a sudden crawl when no one was really watching or encouraging you . . . you tend to just do things in your own time, when you have your own motivation.
i happen to think it’s the cutest crawling i have ever seen – mainly because you laugh the whole time you are so excited!
i am SO proud of you my little Love.
{a little video here} ——-> jackson crawls! 05.01
this weekend we celebrated being married for 5 years. {okay, i know we already celebrated in NYC, but you know i love to KEEP celebrating}.
friday: we collapsed in bed after a long week and started listing off all our aspirations for the weekend {read: home projects}.
it was suddenly hysterical and we laughed and laughed in the dark as we remembered each thing we’ve promised to do by now. it was so much fun trying to keep our giggles quiet so we didn’t wake up jackson . . .
saturday: we woke up and went to breakfast with the Dude. you asked me which year of marriage has been the best and we had a wonderful chat about where we have been and where we are headed. i love cheesy eggs and endless cups of coffee with you.
sunday: we bailed on service day at church {sorry watermark!} and tried out a new church, just for fun. we both had the exact same thoughts about the service/experience and that is one of my favorite things about you. some days it seems we are so knit together that we are the same person, and other days you challenge my thinking with a completely different perspective. keep it up, my love.
i simply can’t believe that i’ve been Mrs. May for 5 years. i’m far more in love with you today than i was on our wedding day . . .
you let me fly my kite, and catch me when i fall. you help me laugh at myself. you never judge the half drunk coffee mugs on my desk. you take my car in to fix the tires because you know i hate doing that sort of thing. you think i look the prettiest without any makeup. you leave just enough cookie dough for me to eat when you make chocolate cookies. you rarely complain about anything and it makes me want to do the same. you always make sure i have a glass of water by my bed. you call and check on me and jackson throughout the day when you are at work. you always join my dance parties without shame.
thank you for loving me exactly as i am. i never feel more myself than when i am with you.
Most evenings you can find us dancing in the kitchen while we cook dinner. (We can dance AND cook at the same time). We love to laugh. Having great friends over for a long dinner with copius amounts of wine is our idea of a perfect evening. As often as we can, we have coffee time together at 3 in the afternoon. We adore our little Dude and think he's the greatest gift we've ever received. 
