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Too much travel makes Mommy go Boom.
Apr. 20th, 2012 12:09 pmI am the sort of person, and thank goodness my kids are the same way, where too much activity - out and aboutness - wears me out. Yesterday was a very busy day for us. Most of it was fun and if I hadn't turned into a "twenty hundred pain in the patootie" (C's words) at the end of the night when I was so exhausted I didn't realize I should just pack it in, it would have been a perfect day.
I got up early to do all the morning animal stuff. We met friends for a movie. We got cookies after the movie, since they had a little extra time before they had to leave. We hit the feed store on that end of town and got to look at their baby chicks, ducks, and turkeys. We went to our old rec center and I signed C up for karate. We discussed signing the girls up for the "cooking" class like they had last summer. The problem: karate is on Mon/Wed, cooking on Tue/Thurs. The location of the classes, 25-30 mins from home. Four days of driving to do stuff would likely lead to more "twenty hundred pain in the patootie" behavior from me.
The cooking class is a bit of a joke anyway. It's more of an assemble snacks class. Only the teacher uses the stove and the kids have to use plastic butter knives for any cutting they get to do. Seeing as H has made her very own orange meringue pie, it seemed a waste to go back to snack assembly from there. Instead, I promised the girls that once a week I would let them choose something to make from one of our cookbooks, and I'd get the ingredients and we'd make it. A real cooking class. Real knives, real stove, real mixers. Zero commute time. Phew.
We then went to Walmart to bathing suit shop (shudder), and to pick up some flip-flops for a 4-H arts and crafts project for the girls.
Then we rushed home so I could make soup and salad for dinner (a real homemade soup too, picking the chicken out of the bones and everything). I double checked the horses' water - filled it up again, it was a hot day.
We rushed off to the 4-H meeting. We came home and broke out the hot glue gun, since H had other plans for the flip-flop decorating than just tying on ribbons.
H and I watched "Scandal".
H did some more glue gunning. I stepped in it (metaphorically), then I exploded.
Plans for today - light housework, care for animals, watch lots of Saturday Morning Cartoons on disks the kids' Grandpa has been making for them, and not another damn thing.
I got up early to do all the morning animal stuff. We met friends for a movie. We got cookies after the movie, since they had a little extra time before they had to leave. We hit the feed store on that end of town and got to look at their baby chicks, ducks, and turkeys. We went to our old rec center and I signed C up for karate. We discussed signing the girls up for the "cooking" class like they had last summer. The problem: karate is on Mon/Wed, cooking on Tue/Thurs. The location of the classes, 25-30 mins from home. Four days of driving to do stuff would likely lead to more "twenty hundred pain in the patootie" behavior from me.
The cooking class is a bit of a joke anyway. It's more of an assemble snacks class. Only the teacher uses the stove and the kids have to use plastic butter knives for any cutting they get to do. Seeing as H has made her very own orange meringue pie, it seemed a waste to go back to snack assembly from there. Instead, I promised the girls that once a week I would let them choose something to make from one of our cookbooks, and I'd get the ingredients and we'd make it. A real cooking class. Real knives, real stove, real mixers. Zero commute time. Phew.
We then went to Walmart to bathing suit shop (shudder), and to pick up some flip-flops for a 4-H arts and crafts project for the girls.
Then we rushed home so I could make soup and salad for dinner (a real homemade soup too, picking the chicken out of the bones and everything). I double checked the horses' water - filled it up again, it was a hot day.
We rushed off to the 4-H meeting. We came home and broke out the hot glue gun, since H had other plans for the flip-flop decorating than just tying on ribbons.
H and I watched "Scandal".
H did some more glue gunning. I stepped in it (metaphorically), then I exploded.
Plans for today - light housework, care for animals, watch lots of Saturday Morning Cartoons on disks the kids' Grandpa has been making for them, and not another damn thing.
