As much as the kids tried to beat my good mood out of me this morning (fighting over cereal, whining that someone was eating too loudly, forgetting to do homework, leaving a mess at the table, pushing each other at the bus stop, and on and on), I'm still in a good mood.
While I take good moods at face value, I'm trying to figure out what caused my bad mood earlier this week. I think it was because I knew yesterday (Wednesday) was going to suck and it messed with my brain. And when I know there's a bad day coming, the anticipation of it makes me feel worse.
I think my current Brownie troop is not cut out for field trips. Last year's was fabulous but 2 of my good sweet quiet girls moved over the summer and were replaced by 3 girls who don't listen and like to rile up my other girls. I abhor violence but I was seriously ready to smack them yesterday. (Crap, now I'm in line for the "Worst Girl Scout Leader" award.)
After our wonderfully disastrous Girl Scout field trip, we went straight to Zach's baseball practice. Where I stayed in the van with 4 children for two hours. Thank God for iPod.
From there I passed off Zach to Greg for a Boy Scout meeting and went to stand out in the cold (someone forgot to tell Mother Nature it's spring, it was freezing out) to pick up Zach's baseball uniform. I stood out in the cold for 40 minutes. After Saturday's all day outdoor Girl Scout camp training (again with the freezing temps and snow), I think I've fulfilled my quota of standing out in the cold for the rest of the decade.
We arrived home at 8pm and hadn't eaten dinner yet.
Yesterday is over so I'm feeling a bit better. We don't have another "bad schedule day" until April 11th. Well I'm hoping it's not until April 11th, I still don't have the twin's soccer game times. If I ran this world, everyone would have their children's entire life schedule from the moment they were born. And if you made a change, say replacing soccer with dance, a computer would immediately spit out the new itinerary with said changes. No waiting around for coaches' meetings, no wondering if Boy Scouts will be Wednesday or Saturday this week, it would all be right there in a leather bound day planner.
Also if I ran the world? Plain cereal boxes and self cleaning houses.
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