This is a warning to all of you parents with young children: SLEEP WHILE YOU CAN. Seriously, I feel like I'm bakc to newborn sleep status. I often find my eyeballs dry and burning, my head aches, my lids are droopy. This is what happens when you wake up at 5 AM to teach seminary and are still up at 12 PM waiting on your teenagers to settle down. This isn't so much complaining as it is telling-it-like-it-is.
Saturday was the first day since school started that wasn't planned to the gills. I was relieved, as in falling upon my knees and kissing the ground relieved. I slept in until 8:30. I know...the decadence of it all. Then I watched a bunch of tv. That was fun. Then, before I finally showered and got dressed, I decided to go for a swim. Except none of my kiddos would swim with me. Parker was off with Sterling, and the girls had already "washed their hair."
So I swam by myself. The girls sat outside and talked with me for a while, but for all intents and purposes I swam by myself...which is something I never, ever do.
It was super cool and refreshing.
Then, I got out of the pool, turned up the music and read a book poolside. Also, something I never, ever do.
Inside the dishes were getting crusty in the sink. The living room was strewn with socks and magazines and various Parker toys. The floors were dusty. My bed was unmade. The mail was thrown all down the dining room table.
And I swam. And read. In the sunshine.
I high recommend such an activity.
But today, today I'm back to real life and super real mounds of laundry. Also, the form I drove to College Station on Friday? I may have filled that out incorrectly. Must look into that today...which might involve more driving. Drats.
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Posted by: Mulberry Bayswater Outlet | October 18, 2011 at 06:15 PM