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August 22, 2005
What's that, up in the sky?
No, it's not the Dark Mark. It's just the skull and crossbones floating over my house.
It was a bad, bad day. See, I'm using past tense here, to pretend that the day is over.
There is an obvious reason for the bad, bad day: several of my children utterly failed to go to sleep at a decent hour last night. Now, I know that lack of sleep is going to make the kids grumpy, but for Heaven's sake!
It's 3:30, and we just finished our "must" do subjects, math and Latin. Just two little tiny subjects, things we usually have finished by 10 or 10:30 am. Have we read aloud today? Oh, no. Have we gotten to do anything fun? Oh, no. Connor did write the paragraph I assigned him, which was breathtaking in its complete lack of attention to anything. We'll try again tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day.
I ordered pizza because I was too angry and frazzled to cook. I ate 10 hot wings. That ought to set the ol' diet in its place, eh?
I so wish I could send them outside, but the current heat index is 102. Who wants to go outside? Who can blame them?
Maybe tonight we can all go to sleep by 5. That would be fine.
Jeff is on an out-of-town job again as well, so it's just me and the kiddos.
I'm thinking movies and chocolate.
Posted by lynx at August 22, 2005 3:31 PM
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Oi. You have my sympathy. And pity. And my helping of virtual chocolate.
Posted by: Sarah at August 22, 2005 4:20 PM
Movies are good. Chocolate is better. And tomorrow will be too!
Posted by: Mungo at August 22, 2005 6:06 PM
My kids are the same way this week! They say the temperatures will break soon, but they've been saying that for days now. The garden sprinkler is my new best friend. It lets me get them outside long enough to burn off some energy.
Posted by: Lioness at August 22, 2005 10:58 PM
add wine to that list! kids are sleeping here and I popped open a beer and sent Tim packing because I need alone time.....
Posted by: e at August 22, 2005 11:21 PM
My Betty-Crocker-ness (or what semblance of it I have) takes a dive when Zorak's out of town. Today we had several variations on "pizza" - I could hear him shaking his head when the boys shared their great menu over the phone.
Here's to the coming of fall!! May it get here and linger.
Dy
Posted by: Dy at August 23, 2005 12:40 AM
Send 'em over! My child can talk them to sleep.
Posted by: Shawna in Texas at August 23, 2005 1:19 AM
E, Last I heard, wine was purchased. :) She, however, did not invite me, since I am sick.
susie
Posted by: susie at August 23, 2005 8:25 AM