Where Was I?

Friday

• I splurged and bought myself a radio alarm clock which docks my ipod. I think that for the first time since I got the darn thing, I may actually start using it!


• Of course, the music on it has been there for over two years now. And I keep having to forward through inappropriate music since I'm at work--and most of the songs on the "Natural Born Killers" and "South Park" soundtracks just MIGHT be frowned upon here.

Saturday

• I walked around with my son delivering donation bags for Cub Scouts.



• Did some of the housework.



• Took son to a birthday party in the same neighborhood where we'd delivered bags that morning.



• So frustrated with my horrible housekeeping, decided to buy new curtains and blinds for bathrooms and bedrooms--GROSS!



• John and I took all three kids to the mall--and remembered why we haven't bought new curtains YET. The hide-and-seek possibilities of the draperies department prevents our ever getting to actually LOOK. (John and I made a "date" to look them over during one of our lunch hours this week.)



• Except for the ice cream, trip to the mall was a complete waste of time!

Sunday

• MORE housework. My kids think they are Cinderella, and I'm the wicked step-mom. I completely get where they are coming from. But I can't figure out how to share the work load equally so that it actually GETS DONE, and it's not ALL done by ME.
  


• Twilight's funeral. :-( He is buried in one of our landscaped areas, underneath a beautiful tree. And we put down my garden bunny--received last Mother's Day--as his marker.



• Distribution of bags with the GS troop in a different neighborhood. (Why is it that no troops ever do OUR neighborhood?)



• Meeting with other GS leaders to plan next overnight event. Which I found out Friday is scheduled at the same time as Mary and Keith's next Suzuki concert.



• Get home to panic of WHAT'S FOR DINNER? I never made it to the grocery store. Scrape together a casserole with chicken, cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, broccoli, rice, and stuffing on top. Delicious. Keith and I were the only ones who ate it. And he refused to eat the broccoli and rice portion of it. (Oh well, more leftovers for me!)


• Decide to let Keith start using the shower downstairs. The upstairs bathroom just doesn't have enough towel racks for all five of us, and I'm tired of picking up towels off the floor. He's excited to have a shower "all his own." After the shower, I walk downstairs to find all of his clothes on the floor--and his towel. There is no laundry basket. He can't reach the towel rack.


• One of the times I had to get up to check on Izzy last night, I actually stumbled back to bed, and fell on my husband. I didn't know he was there. (VERY groggy.) I think the possibility of our having any more children just got "fixed."

This morning

• I couldn't get out of bed. (Two kids moaning/whining all night will do that to you.)


• After repeated requests to Izzy to get her socks/shoes/coat on, ended up marching her out to the car without the coat on. She wasn't happy. Neither was I!