Typical Monday stuff:
*Lots of extra laundry from the weekend
* Lots of messy house from the weekend
* Bathroom cleaning (only 2 out of 3 got done today)
* Volunteering at the school for Einstein Lab (McKay's class) and swapping babysitting with my friend so she can also volunteer (I watch her 3 cute little boys while she goes)
* Picking the kids up from school and taking the older two to piano lessons
* FHE, which is always an interesting time at our house. McKay taught the lesson tonight -- he picked one of my lesson kits about the story of feeding the 5,000, Hannah picked ice cream sandwiches for treats and Hayley picked a Halloween matching game for the activity. (If you're wondering about Courtney, she picked songs tonight.)
Extra Monday stuff:
*Driving the kids down the hill this morning to meet the bus since it rained a little last night and now I'm always paranoid about the bus coming up our road in the rain.
* Driving to the school just after lunch (that makes THREE trips today -- usually at least 45 minutes round-trip each trip) after getting a call from the school nurse that my kindergartner had just had her third potty accident and they ran out of clothes for her to wear. I always send a spare set in her backpack because of her potty struggles, but today she went through those, plus an extra set the school had (plus the ones she wore to school this morning). Aargh! is about all I have to say.
* THREE trips to the Post Office -- picking up (or attempting to pick up) packages that wont' fit in our mailbox (they won't drive up to our house).
* Extra visits to the library (books on hold), the gas station (it's down to $1.93/gal -- woohoo!), and the grocery store (milk on sale and looking for something Wal-Mart didn't have).
*Cutting more strips of tulle to make tu-tus for Courtney's birthday party.
* Trying to figure out what to do for scorpion stings after McKay stepped on one tonight. Don't mess with those scorpions. It even stung him through his sock and he was screaming like his foot had been cut off. (I don't know what would have happened if he had been barefoot.) We have seen several of these very small (only a few inches long), light-colored scorpions around the house. Mostly we see them dead on the floor. They look something like this:
A time or two we have seen them alive. Like tonight. McKay was in the office about ready for bed, when he came running out screaming that he had stepped on a scorpion. He ripped his sock off and just cried about how much it hurt. (I have read that they do really hurt.) We put a cold cloth and some ice on it and after a little bit he seemed just fine.
So there's my Monday in a nutshell. Lots on my list that didn't get done today, we'll see what we can tackle tomorrow!
4 comments:
Whoa! im tired now!! that scorpion looks scary!!! poor kid!!
Oh goodness, you ARE a busy mama! Ick on the scorpions-- hopefully McKay makes a quick and full recovery!
And the sad part is, the busy days never go away...
Scorpions too?! I was done when you mentioned the tarantula a while back!
(In response to your "flip-flop comment" on my blog.) I was waiting to see how long until someone would mention my flip flops in the forest. My dad would have a 'hey day' seeing me in my "city shoes" in the woods. Honestly, we weren't in all that much of "the forest". It just looks like we are. I had my tennis shoes with me...but they just didn't go well with my outfit (I'm such a girl). If we had had any intentions of hanging out at that park for more than just taking pictures I would have changed my footwear. I had planned for everyone's feet to not be in the pictures, but then again I wasn't taking the photos. Like I said, they're not perfect.
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