A Poor Start
We’ve decided that our official first day of school will be the day after Labor Day. OK. Fine. But…we’re still on our summer schedule. We have all been waking up way too late! We need to get back on track somehow. Personally, I am struggling to 1) go to bed by 10:30, and 2) wake by 7. Is this so much to ask? Late last night, my body decided to grace me with a severe sinus headache. My darling gave me two white pills before he left today, and before I got out of bed. I don’t even know what they were. The headache finally began to subside around 10. I say began, because it’s still lingering slightly. I had three cups of coffee, and that seems to also have helped. However, since I’m late, I’ll never get done. I have a kitchen full of dishes that I was too beat to do last night (did I mention that the dishwasher’s broken, so I’ll have to do them by hand?). In addition to the regular laundry, I have a load of sheets from an, um, nighttime accident. I also have much folding to do. Plus, the children want to eat, play, and read! Of all the nerve! I may not be done with my regularly scheduled chores before 3! Sigh. I can’t wait to try again. But tomorrow’s Saturday!
UPDATE: Looks like a little venting went a long way. Or was it the coffee? Dishes are done and done. Laundry is folded. Boy washed & dried his own bedclothes. Other boy cooked breakfast for lunch, aka scrambled egg sandwiches, at noon for himself and little brother. I also cleaned all three bathrooms, at least the basins and toilets, and spent about 1.5 hours deep cleaning the little boys’ room and rearranging the furniture so I could clean out from under it. I ended up putting most of their toys into the hall closet, leaving only books, 2 Magna Doodles, some guys, and a Star Wars vehicle. They were delighted and spent the hour during dinner prep (done by my loving husband) upstairs playing. Now it’s bedtime routines followed by some reading and/or knitting. Lovely.
