Everyone keeps saying Just wait until you have that baby, you won’t have time for anything else! And I’m thinking, But I ALREADY don’t have enough time, how much worse can it get?

Trying to find enough time for everything in a day is not helped by the fact that our schedules are wacked. With both of us being actors, we never know which one of us, or if both, will be working or auditioning, or what the work/audition hours will be day to day. Don’t get me wrong, I LIKE the constant change and NO routine rut to fall into, but it can definitly be challenging trying to coordinate.  It helps that I’m not working so much right now, since every time I get a call and I say “Is it ok I’m 8 months pregnant?” The answer is almost always, “No.”

And there’s our continuous list of projects going on that make for a constant flux of chaos in our home.  The biggest one right now being a re-do of our office area, which leaves all of its contents in different areas of the house and me working on the computer in the kitchen. Plus we’re purchasing and trying to find room for all the baby stuff, which is INSANE the amount of crap one little baby needs!

Then there’s all the things to do for when our parents visit their new grandchild, plus little projects we just never got around to until now.  Things like curtains for the room they’ll be staying in so they won’t feel like everyone is staring at them, blankets so they don’t freeze their ass off while trying to sleep (when a crying baby isn’t keeping them awake), and putting our bedroom light on a dimmer so we aren’t shining a spotlight on a crying, hungry baby at 2:00 am.

And then there’s all the stuff we’re getting rid of, which is either being taken to Goodwill or listed on Craigslist. Meaning there are constant, ever changing piles of “going to goodwill”, “to list on craigslist”, “for craigslist buyer on his way”, “new purchases yet to be installed, assembled, hung or organized”, “returns”… you get the point.  One minute the house is tidy and suddenly it will look like they should be shooting an episode of “Hoarders” here.  It’s a crazy continuous cycle.  Chaos.  Organize.  Chaos. Organize.

Then there are other business/work related side projects that are constantly in flux around the house too.  We just did a photo shoot, I’m in the middle of editing one project and started writing another.  And there’s a really fun one this time of year called “taxes”.

And of course, while all this craziness is happening and we are running around the house, there are two crazy dogs that need constant attention and follow us from room to room.

How will a baby fit into all this chaos? Just fine.  He won’t know a life different from this one.