A Day in the Life…

This morning, the alarm went off a little too early. I wanted to role over and go back to sleep. Of course, my alarm is across the room from the bed to make it more difficult. So I cut off the alarm and went to wake my oldest son. I reminded him I would need his help this morning because I had somewhere I needed to be. Of course, instead of getting dressed, he sat around complaining he was cold. Meanwhile, my youngest screamed to the top of his lungs, “I don’t need to go to school today.” I was getting him ready for the parents’ morning out program at the church. He kicked and screamed while I put his clothes on. Then, I went to check on the other child. My oldest couldn’t find matching sock. Matching socks are a perpetual problem in our house. My have a real, live sock-monster. She is a lovely red dachshund and she likes to steal socks and eat them. While I was tending the elder, the younger undressed. From there, the whole day erupted into one big comedy of errors. Eldest son dropped the juice on the kitchen floor, not a cup of juice, but the whole two liter jug, soaking his socks. We needed to make a sandwich for the lunch box, but the cat climbed on the counter last night and ripped open the new loaf of bread and nibbled across the top. (Really I do feed my pets.) Somehow, we made it out door. And that was my morning (up to 8:45am that is).

So this post won’t run ten pages and get really boring, I am just going to give the highlights of the rest of the day. I went to the new house (I’ve mentioned we’re moving.) to clean up the yard. It contained ten big trash bags full of trash and three years worth of leaves. My hands hurt from raking. There appears to be a cat in the crawl space for the attic. I’d love to know how it got there. We are having a fence put in and there is a pine tree at about a forty-five degree angle right over where the fence needs to be.

The carpet isn’t in the house because the wall isn’t mudded yet. The wall wasn’t mudded because the gas was off so there was no heat. The gas is now on, but the thermostat fell apart. So, we still don’t have carpet and we are supposed to move this weekend.

Other than errands, karate, meals, and writing I have about summed up my day. I hope we can go to bed early tonight.