Today...
I don't even know where to start.
It was a big day.
The Indiana house closing was scheduled for 10am. It got bumped to 3pm. And then 3:30pm and then... I lost track.
Onto another related tangent...
As you may know Zach plays ice hockey. He's pretty good if I do say so myself (and his coaches agree). And he wanted to continue to play in Indiana so one of the reasons we looked for a house in the area we did was because of the ice rinks and teams.
The best travel team's try-outs are this weekend in Indiana. And it would be fantastic if Zach played for this really good team. But we're still in Maryland...
Greg worked his schedule around so he could stay in Indiana this weekend. There was just the little matter of getting Zach to Indiana as well. Do you see where this is going?
My precious baby boy flew on a plane without us today.
He's actually been on the ground and with my sister for over an hour now and I'm still not breathing again yet. I think I willed that plane to fly safely because there pretty much was not been another thought in my head for ninety minutes. Luckily Greg will be able to fly back with Zach Sunday night, whew.
Long story short (and trust me, this could easily be a 10 page saga if I went into all the crazy little details), we have the house (yay!) and Zach is in Indiana. I'm too worn out to even think about his try-outs but if anything remotely happens like this, I will keel over dead from the stress of it all.
The countdown begins... 14 days until we move, woohoo!
Last night's Girl Scout ceremony went very well if I do say so myself. But dude, I do not like being the center of attention (in real life that is, here I'm good with it). And yeah I was really not expecting a gift or recognition at all. (I'm just humble like that, lol.) I'd rather be helping the girls with their Try-Its or sorting a thousand boxes of cookies than be praised and given gifts in front of a bunch of people. (Also? I may just be weird.) But it's all over and done and hopefully I'll be able to sneak into a more "behind the scenes" roll in the twin's next Girl Scout troop. Although there is that little matter of Kelly starting as a Daisy in the fall...
Today I plan to do a lot of sewing and visit the school twice. Once for some crazy PTA volunteer thing I accidentally signed up for last fall and the second for some "enrichment presentation" thing in the evening. All I know is my kids would be devastated if we don't all go. I vaguely remember it from the last two years, the classrooms and halls are plastered with all the papers and art projects that haven't come home yet for me to throw away. (I jest! I don't throw them away, I recycle.)
We are walking both times even though we'll have to cross the "busy road" between us and the school. Because that whole 2.5 mile round trip twice would cost me like $1.80 in gas. (Did I ever mention the van gets crappy 12 miles to the gallon if I'm lucky?) And also I'm not even close to my lose 14 pounds in 5 weeks goal. More like 2 pounds in 3 weeks. (Probably not a good idea to shoot for 12 pounds in 2 weeks, huh?) Weight loss would be so much easier if broccoli tasted like chocolate and sewing burned as many calories per minute as running.
Yesterday kicked my butt. I'm still tired.
I set up all the utilities at the new house (close date: this Friday, keep your fingers crossed!) and called to cancel all the services here. I love Verizon FIOS but wow, their phone system leaves something to be desired. I think I was on the phone for at least an hour, being transferred 3 times and at one point while on hold, Greg beeped through and we had a 15 minute conversation. When he hung up, I was still on hold for another 10 minutes. I also called 4 maid services here for estimates to do a final deep clean at this house. $400 spent to get back a $4000 security deposit? Well worth it. Plus I'm literally running out of time.
I ordered my new washer and dryer (weee!) and a new French Door refrigerator with water and ice in the door (double weee!). This is the first time I've picked out new appliances (Greg did replace a dishwasher and stove at the Ohio house but I wasn't involved in choosing them). It's kinda nerve racking with all the choices (Libra!) but I'm really happy with them. And you know, it'll be good to be able to wash/dry clothes and keep our food cold at the new house. lol
Oh and I also went grocery shopping (although I'm trying to clear out the pantry and freezer starting now) and last night was the Cub Scout Pack Campfire meeting. For the last three years I've been in charge of reserving the fire ring at a local place and bringing all the smores supplies. Nothing like 20 boys running at you with pointy sticks and flaming marshmallows.
Flaming Marshmallows, that would be a good name for a band.
I'd like to rest but I have 5 Etsy orders to sew and also tonight is my Girl Scout troop's big ceremony where they bridge from Brownies to Juniors. As much as I occasionally complain about being the troop leader (the parents!), I'm really going to miss the girls. I did dole out food assignments but I need to pick up tablecloths, plates, napkins, balloons, candles, and so forth. All the little crummy stuff around the house is going to have to wait another day (scuff marks on the walls, steam clean the sofa, etc).
Um right, so let's just continue with the running around like a chicken with its head cut off act.
Ouch...
I'm so buying a bike when we move to Indiana. Although I'm not sure what I'm doing with the 5 kids while I run errands on a bike. Or in the winter. Gah, I hate the cold. Hmmm, my plan needs work.
My goal for the rest of our time in Maryland is not to fill up the van again until we drive out to Indiana (in 16 days, weee!). I'm not so much "green" as I am "cheap". I'm not holding my breath for a 12 passenger hybrid any time soon either.
Yay for babysitters!
(This is one of the few things I'm going to miss about living in Maryland, it's nice to have three great babysitters available.)
Tonight Greg and I and friends are going out for sushi and to see the new Indiana Jones movie. I can't tell you how many times my siblings and I watched the other ones as kids. (Dad? lol)
And then we really have nothing else going on this weekend which is fine by me. After this week, I need a break. Hope you have a great Memorial Day weekend!
146.4
Hmph, that kinda looks like last week's number... *insert Tortoise/Hare metaphors here*
Anyway it's been quite a morning already and it's only 9:30. The kids were up nice and early (7:20 versus 7:45) but did they "get dressed/eat breakfast/pack lunches" during this time? No.... I spent way too much time tracking down each child (darn multi-level/room house) and asking "are you dressed, have you eaten breakfast, did you pack lunch?" Oh and then since it's Friday, everyone has homework due and only Emily had remembered to put hers in her backpack last night when I had asked them to do so. The bus pulled up as we were still scrambling to stuff backpacks. Ally actually made the bus stop again (we live on a cul-de-sac, it loops past our house a second time) and ran in to get her spelling book out of her room.
Oy...
From there I decided I should finish my room mom stuff since the papers really should have been sent in Wednesday. (One class picnic thing, two end of the year teacher gift money donation requests.) So of course the printer jammed like a dozen times, it doesn't care much for printing on envelopes. And then Zach called because he had forgotten a piece of homework. And then the school nurse called because Emily's allergies are acting up (this is new). I had to run to the pharmacy for eye drops and Benadryl since the eye drops I had were expired (April 2008, sheesh) and we were out of Benadryl. I'm so never winning the "Most Prepared Mom" award.
Vey...
Wait, it gets better. Someone wants to see the house from 1:30 to 3:30 today. *insert cleaning induced panic* I also have 5 Etsy orders to sew. Do you think anyone would mind if I set up my sewing machine and ironing board at Starbucks?
Right, think happy thoughts: Three day weekend... Beautiful weather... Moving to Indiana in 3 weeks...
Although Greg's not happy with the way the inspection repairs are coming along and has found 3 other houses online that he *might* want to check out. LALALALALALALA, I can't hear him! Cause I'm moving to Indiana in 3 weeks even if I'm living out of my van with 5 children. I figure we have a dvd player in there, an ac thingie (to plug in a microwave and mini-fridge), and a laptop, how bad could it be? Oh wait, I have a tent! Maybe I should start looking up campgrounds in Indiana.
Dude, if I ever needed Valium, today might be the day.
I feel sorry for any other Katie Fleck's out there because I seem to have that username everywhere. Then again maybe they are all more creative than me and prefer names like "threepenguins" and "knitordie47".
Anyway I bring this up because I'm now receiving emails for at least two other Katie Fleck's on my hotmail account. The first I've been receiving for about a month and it is a weekly work schedule. I hope she doesn't get fired since she's not receiving the emails, eek. The other just started this morning. I'm invited to play in a volleyball league in Chickasaw! (Um, where?) So far Chad and Craig are in. We're waiting on 5 other people to respond back. Go team!
So what exactly is the protocol here? Is it like a wrong telephone number call? "Sorry you have the wrong email address, I'm not that Katie Fleck?" Or should I just ignore them and hope the senders figure it out eventually?
Although the slightly evil side of me wants to reply back to the volleyball one and say I'm in and I'll bring the beer.
I picked the wrong week to give up Mountain Dew...
Okay so the twins have been going through this anxiety thing for a week now. At least I think that's what it is because otherwise we have some weird medical issues going on. They are fine all day long and then at bed time, bam! Their stomachs hurt, their heads hurt, they can't sleep, they wake me up a few times in the middle of the night for "I forgot" and "Nothing", they sleepwalk, and they are basically making my favorite part of the day rotten.
And I don't know what to do. Give me two 9 month old kids and I can handle the middle of the night stuff. Two 9 year olds, not so much... Like I said, during the day, they are fine and don't remember any of it or don't know why they can't go to sleep. And at 2am, you aren't going to get a straight answer out of anyone. (Unless it's puke, that's a pretty good clue to what's wrong.)
It could be the upcoming move but they seem excited about it. I don't think it's school because they are doing very well and Emily actually said she's not looking forward to summer because there won't be school. (Um, huh?) How do I get to the bottom of this? Should I wait it out? It'll probably be one of those things that in twenty years, they'll say, "Oh Mom, that week in the spring of 2008? Yeah we couldn't sleep because the bulletin board in our room was crooked."
The only part I have figured out is why the exact same thing is happening to both of them. They are twins. (Ha, I know! I'm so Sherlock Holmes.) 9 times out of 10, they are in the same place emotionally all the time. And 5 times out of 9, it's drama queen, "ohmygod, the world is ending because he looked at me funny, waaaaa!" I am so not ready for them to be teenagers.
A Venti White Chocolate Mocha probably has half my daily calorie intake, doesn't it? Blah...
Because I haven't tortured you with any home videos yet. Zach's 1st chair trombone, he's the first kid in the very very right row. Eh, the quality isn't too bad for a tiny digital camera.
Since the last poll went so swimmingly (and confirmed that I do have more readers than my dad and Steph, ha), here's another for you.
Back to my new business title, I can't decide on the spaces and capitalization. I know, that is so 1st grade. I suppose it's a design question then. The options: Katie Fleck Designs, katiefleck Designs, katiefleck DESIGNS, or katiefleck designs.
I kinda like at least one capital letter and lately everyone refers to me as "katiefleck" no spaces, no capital K. Life is too busy for the push of the space bar and shift key? Also "designs" in all caps looks cool logo wise on a website but today's decision is mostly for my new sew-in labels, would it be too much there?
If I ever make it big, I'm hiring someone to make decisions like this for me. And not a Libra...
Today has been one of those days where all the little things that should take like 5 minutes took 20 or more. Examples:
Post office to mail two international packages. Usually takes 5 to 10 minutes and most days I walk right up to the counter. Today I gave up after the line didn't move for 10 minutes (with 5 people in front of me) while watching a postal worker smooth bubbles out of the tape on a package the entire time. (Usually I love this particular post office, there must have been something in the water.) Sorry Germany and UK, I'll try again Monday.
CVS to buy wrapping paper for one of the many birthday gifts for this weekend. (We were out of "boy".) One register open and there was a little old lady haggling over the price of a less than $5 purchase which then required a manager. ARGH! Another 2 minute task that took ten times longer.
Parking at the soccer field. This is normally a hairy process anyway but it took me half an hour to drive the eighth of a mile through the lot. Of course the girls' game was at the back fields.
In the end the girls won their soccer game and everyone played a few frames at the bowling birthday party (the actual kids invited to the party abandoned the lanes in favor of the game room so the host mom practically put bowling shoes on my kids to play). Oh and we bought Zach a new pair of sneakers (which thankfully went smoothly and quick because Zach is not indecisive and whiny like his twin sisters when shopping for shoes) since his current pair look like a dog ate them. And we don't have a dog.
And now I am tired.
What do you mean I have one more day of the weekend to go through?!?!?
146.8
Brought to you by the stomach flu...
There was no way I was making weight this week (that sounds so high school wrestling team, doesn't it?) because as of Tuesday I weighed 149. I blame the Mother's Day chocolates and eating out. Oh and there has been no exercise unless steam cleaning two floors worth of carpets counts. The good news is I cut my Mountain Dew consumption from about nine 20oz bottles a week down to three. It would have been two except I drank one yesterday because everyone knows carbonation helps settle an upset stomach.
My goal this week is to add in exercise even if it is 30 minutes of torture daily on the treadmill. It's not that walking is hard but it's so freaking boring and the treadmill is in the dining room away from any form of distraction (i.e. TV). We canceled our gym membership a while back by the way. If anyone has a gym quality elliptical they'd like to get rid of...
In other news, I'm terribly grumpy at the moment. It's raining and yucky outside, the kids have 3 birthday parties this weekend (which means lots of running around, buying gifts, sugar highs, and dealing with the other kids being grumpy they didn't get to swim/bowl/rock wall climb), Greg's still gone, and the kids are off school today (I don't know). I'm feeling okay physically except for a headache which may or may not be caused by the fact it's only 9am and I've had to yell 4 times and send two kids to their rooms already. I'm also trying to block out the disaster of a kitchen I walked down to this morning. I'm seriously thinking about lugging the sewing machine upstairs and hiding in my room all day.
Um, TGIF?
Late Tuesday night the kids' stomach flu bug finally caught up with me. I spent most of Wednesday laid out comatose on the bed wishing I hadn't eaten Chinese food for dinner. (After 4 pregnancies worth of morning sickness, I've determined Chinese food is that absolute most terrible-est thing ever to throw up. Mexican comes in a close second though.) I also had a fever and alternated between burning up and feeling as if dunked in ice. It wasn't exactly a pleasant night/day.
And then around 11am, the worst thing that can happen to a "really sick person currently wishing someone else could take care of her" happened.
The school nurse called and said Zach was running a fever with a stomach ache and could I come pick him up?
Ugh... A really sick person being called upon to take care of another really sick person? This is exactly why I no longer want to live in Maryland alone. (Greg's all over the Midwest again this week.)
Somehow I found the energy to pull on clean clothes and a ballcap and sandals (tying shoes would have been way too difficult) and drove to the school. Too bad Kelly's too short to drive. And that's about all I remember about Wednesday.
Today I'm a little better, I ate a piece of toast and so far it seems to be staying put. But I still feel yucky so no walls or floors are getting scrubbed. Probably no sewing either. I even sucked up the $12.95 grocery delivery charge (WTF? It used to be $4.95) so the kids will have something to eat other than graham crackers and bread tonight.
In my next life, I'm so asking for a better immune system.
Okay so no one likes to read about cleaning. No worries, I don't like doing it either.
Moving on...
I don't do well waking up at 6:30am. Zach has a long field trip today and had to be at the school an hour and a half early. Channeling my inner 4 year old: I wanna go! No fair I can't because Greg's out of town and there's no reasonable way to find babysitting for Kelly all day and the other 3 for an hour and a half on both ends of the school day. Waaa!
Moving on...
Back to the other 3, they all left their lunchboxes at school. I'm sure it's a ploy so that they'll *have to* buy. Nice try! I found paper bags. (They do buy once a week but it's almost $10 a day for the 4 of them. Or $1800 if they bought every day for a year, yikes.) I don't quite get it though. They always complain about the school lunches and say they never end up eating them so when you have the chance to pack exactly what you want, why would you want to buy the school lunch? And then... How come we have the exact same food in the house all day long and in the morning when I suggest they pack it for lunch, it's the grossest thing ever and then after school, they will eat every single item and demand more? I really can't handle the mind f*** this early in the morning.
Moving on...
Drat, I need to go back to cleaning now.
Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning...
Even though we're renting and don't have to sell this house (woot!), I'm spending today (and maybe tomorrow) deep cleaning. The house will be listed through a realtor tomorrow and so technically showings could start as early as noon. It's not that I'm trying to be nice to the landlord by having the house spic and span (well a little bit nice). If it rents quickly, we may get out of the lease a bit early (i.e. money back). And there's always the deposit to worry about.
So far I've steam cleaned all the carpets and next up are washing the walls, scrubbing the basement floor, and cleaning the bathrooms thoroughly. Time permitting (or energy), I need to straighten a few closets and the pantry.
But first I have to run to the store for sponges because the kids used them all about a week ago (long and not very interesting story) and my last one is kinda gross and won't work for "cleaning" walls. Maybe I'll buy myself a pair of glass slippers too while I'm at it.
Happy Mom's Day! Hope you have a great one!
Here we go again with the weight loss thing...
I know. Who wants to listen to anyone complain about
Anyway the scale has been reading 15... One fif... I can't even say it. One forty-nine-ish recently and that is way too much for me at 5 foot 3 inches. Plus all my summer clothes? Do.Not.Fit. Thanks winter clothes for being roomier and hiding my butt and love handles better. *grumble*
Oh and the kicker? My best friend informed me that she now weighs less than me. Like a lot less. If that's not motivation, I don't know what is.
So I plan start the Friday weigh-ins again since they worked so well last time around. Why the weight gain back? Well I stopped going to the gym and kept drinking too much Mountain Dew. And possibly eating too much fast food. Which is crazy because I hate fast food, why am I wasting precious calories on junk? Oh yeah, "fast" and it doesn't involve me cooking. So basically I'm lazy. Which is funny because most people think I'm anything but lazy. Let's go with "makes poor food and exercise choices".
See that's the real issue. I'm not really lazy, in fact I'm pretty darn busy. So what's easier and faster? A chicken sandwich from Burger King (time spent: 3 minutes) or making it myself (if fresh chicken is on hand, at least 10 minutes cooking time and usually they are frozen in my house so add in thaw time, then putting it all together equals another 2 minutes, cutting tomatoes and washing lettuce, etc) Also there's the "eating time". Eating a fast food meal can be done while driving to soccer/hockey/scouts/errands (which works out to like zero time spent) while sitting at home eating a salad takes hours in comparison.
So yeah if I'm worried about 10 minutes eating time, you can imagine how I'm going to fit any exercising into my day.
Time and planning ahead is going to be key in this diet success. I know what to eat, what to avoid, how to exercise, etc. It's just going to be finding the time to make the correct choices and get in some work out time.
The goal? To be 135 by the time we move to Indiana. The move date is set for June 14th so that gives me 5 weeks to lose about 14 pounds. (Ack, 5 weeks?) We'll just ignore the fact that it took me like 3 months to lose 10 pounds last time. Oh and the last 5 to 130 I'll deal with later, 19 pounds in 5 weeks is just insane.
This will work because I am motivated to fit back into my summer clothes and all my new neighbors know me as skinny Katie, not "slightly chubby, who does she think she is trying to squeeze into size 6 clothes?" Katie. I know I can do this especially since I'm making the ultimate sacrifice: No More Mountain Dew. I'll be asleep every night at 9pm but if less calories is what it takes, that's what I'm going to do. I also plan to start good work out habits the second we move to Indiana. Again with the vanity, we have a nearby community pool and bathing suit season will keep me on track for at least 3 months.
Oh and Steph? You're going down! *winks*
(Today's weight: 148.6 *sigh*)
There's nothing quite like being woken up to someone puking in your bed.
Good morning to you too, Kelly.
So since I had to wash my sheets at 5am, I was kinda up for the morning. The good news is I used that time to catch up on all my sewing for the day. Yay, caught up! The bad news is (besides Kelly being sick of course) I need a nap.
And I'm not so much looking forward to the Boy Scout meeting we're hosting tonight at 7pm. Luckily Zach planned the meeting for me out of one of his Boy's Life magazines, I just need to buy supplies (poor Kelly.) Oh and the time Greg's flight lands tonight? 8:45pm. It's a talent, I swear.
What happens when Greg takes Kyle to get his hair cut:
I don't know who to blame for the crazy teeth.
9 pizzas, 5 orders of bread sticks, 6 dozen donuts, 3 gallons of lemonade, 2 bags of Swedish Fish, 4 dozen sugar cookies and cupcakes (2 each) with 3 containers of frosting later, we survived the sleepovers. Oh and let's not forget the 36 smores made at Girl Scout Cooking Day. Somehow I lost 2 pounds over the weekend. Hey I didn't say I ate any of this stuff...
While we're still on the subject of sleepovers, how many times have you had everyone RVSP and actually attend something? I only accept about a quarter of the invites to kid's parties (most of the time because the kid invites the entire grade and my child doesn't know him/her that well anyways. Oh and I'm cheap and don't want to spend $100+ a month on gifts to kids we don't know) so I figured maybe half to three-quarters would show up this weekend. Every single kid came. That would be 11 boys (don't ask me how this got out of control, I obviously can't count) and 8 girls. Those numbers do not include any of my 5. To say it was slightly insane at sometimes would be an understatement.
But everyone is happy and it's over and I can look forward to a relatively stress-free month. All I have left is 3 Girls Scout meetings, 4 Cub Scout things, 2 hockey skate sessions, and a handful of soccer practices and games. I'm back to ignoring the whole packing/cleaning of the house in June by the way.
Oh did I mention that all my kids are home from school today with the stomach flu? Kelly's actually fine at the moment but Kyle threw up yesterday, Emily last night, and Zach and Ally look a little green this morning. I wonder if I should mention this to the 17 sets of parents (we had two pairs of twins) who were here over the weekend. Nah, they'll find out soon enough...
Okay so after Greg and my sister Sarah spent 4 hours at the book store for me (yay!), Greg went and missed his flight home last night because his rental car ran out of gas half way to the airport. Oops. (He'll be home today. I hope.)
Yesterday Zach forgot his lunch at home. Oops.
Today Emily forgot her lunch at home. Oops.
And I sorta misplaced the checkbook which makes bill paying kinda hard. (It's around here somewhere...) Oops.
What was your latest "oops"?
OMG! (And you have to say it "O!" "M!" "G!" like my girls do).
Scroll down until you see someone familiar. (Hint: he's wearing yellow.)
http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2008/05/01/indianapolis.html
Okay for you non-knitters, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (aka "The Yarn Harlot") is a superstar writer in the knitting world. She's written at least 5 very hilarious and informative knitting books (with another and a calendar on the way). Long story short, I was being all pouty the other day because her April 29th stop on her current book tour was 5 minutes away... From the Indiana house. And I'm in Maryland. Still...
But wow! Greg is so getting the biggest hug ever! And I guess I should go clean up the house a bit more (he'll be home tonight around 8.)
If I don't flip my calendars to May, it can still be April, right?
(Oooo! On the same note if I skip ahead to the June page, can it be time to move already?)
See I have these lists of things to do... And yesterday (and part of Tuesday for that matter) I felt awful and didn't get some stuff done. And then random other things get thrown at me like "oh your daughter needs her vision tested!" And "you can get Zach's new skates heat molded and sharpened after school." Which ended up taking 2 hours and 15 minutes with driving time (I had figured an hour tops) and we missed the twin's soccer practice. That wasn't a terribly bad thing (the soccer practice part, the hour and a half at the ice rink sucked) because Emily has been misbehaving during soccer practice and Ally was having one meltdown after another yesterday. So they both went to bed at 7:30. I may start doing that every night because this morning Emily had cleaned the kitchen (my migraine-ish headache kept me from straightening up last night) and Ally was ready to go to school a full 10 minutes early unlike most mornings when I'm shoving them out the door to run after the bus.
Where was I? Oh the lists... Not getting done... For some reason I have a warped sense of time and can't figure out how long things take to actually do them. (This is Greg shaking his head so hard in agreement that there's been another earthquake in the Indianapolis area.) In the measly 3 days Greg is gone this week, I had planned to clean the carpets, wash the walls, scrub the basement floor, and repair two kitchen chairs. Which that's all (probably) possible to do if I didn't have 5 children to feed and clothe and help with homework, a massive headache and cold, 2 Girl Scout events to put together and do, and keep up with my Etsy shop. (Which I'm actually a bit behind on in orders, so sorry lovely customers!)
Right I know, I'm only one person but it just all seems theoretically possible so why can't I do it? My head is starting to hurt again thinking about it all. Can I say here that I'm not cleaning the carpets, washing walls, scrubbing the basement floor, and repairing kitchen chairs today? I think I can get that all done tomorrow...
(Oooo! On the same note if I skip ahead to the June page, can it be time to move already?)
See I have these lists of things to do... And yesterday (and part of Tuesday for that matter) I felt awful and didn't get some stuff done. And then random other things get thrown at me like "oh your daughter needs her vision tested!" And "you can get Zach's new skates heat molded and sharpened after school." Which ended up taking 2 hours and 15 minutes with driving time (I had figured an hour tops) and we missed the twin's soccer practice. That wasn't a terribly bad thing (the soccer practice part, the hour and a half at the ice rink sucked) because Emily has been misbehaving during soccer practice and Ally was having one meltdown after another yesterday. So they both went to bed at 7:30. I may start doing that every night because this morning Emily had cleaned the kitchen (my migraine-ish headache kept me from straightening up last night) and Ally was ready to go to school a full 10 minutes early unlike most mornings when I'm shoving them out the door to run after the bus.
Where was I? Oh the lists... Not getting done... For some reason I have a warped sense of time and can't figure out how long things take to actually do them. (This is Greg shaking his head so hard in agreement that there's been another earthquake in the Indianapolis area.) In the measly 3 days Greg is gone this week, I had planned to clean the carpets, wash the walls, scrub the basement floor, and repair two kitchen chairs. Which that's all (probably) possible to do if I didn't have 5 children to feed and clothe and help with homework, a massive headache and cold, 2 Girl Scout events to put together and do, and keep up with my Etsy shop. (Which I'm actually a bit behind on in orders, so sorry lovely customers!)
Right I know, I'm only one person but it just all seems theoretically possible so why can't I do it? My head is starting to hurt again thinking about it all. Can I say here that I'm not cleaning the carpets, washing walls, scrubbing the basement floor, and repairing kitchen chairs today? I think I can get that all done tomorrow...
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