Could I BE any more tired?
My whole week was a fairly busy one, just taking the kids back and fourth to school is often enough to wear this girl out. This week however, ended with a visit with my cousin Charie who lives in Texas...in fact, we share the same birthday. Anyway, since the whole clan was coming over to my house for dinner, I took it upon myself to clean like a mad woman. There's nothing like company to get my rear in gear, so after I picked Natalie up from school on Friday, I quickly threw together an apple crisp and while it was baking I kicked it up a notch and got some serious housework done...cleaning up all those places that tend to get overlooked until company comes. For me that meant clearing off all the clutter from the dining room table which had become a catch all for the school papers, coupons, misc mail, receipts and remnants from various parties. I also uncluttered the kitchen counters and vacuumed upstairs and downstairs. Zander helped out by putting out the fall decorations. I let him decide where they should go and he was so proud.
By this time my sister-in-law Tami arrived with my nieces Becca and Alexis who were excited to play with Natalie and Zander. My brother Aaron came over soon after and I ran up to my bedroom to quickly make the bed and strategically "hide" all the laundry that I never seem to have time to put away.
Good as new and just in time as everyone else arrived shortly after and I now had to start cooking dinner. We had Thai basil chicken, zucchini casserole, fried rice and salad. Oh, and the kids had grilled cheese sandwiches. It was a group effort and it was all yummy. After dinner, my dad and Tami helped with the dishes (thanks guys!) and then we had dessert. Poor Zander was so excited, he stood up on his chair but then he quickly fell, hitting his nose on the adjacent chair and then landed on the floor, face down. He was a mess. My tough guy was crying pretty hard so I took him to the other room to comfort him, then he started crying more because he wanted to go back and get his ice cream! Meanwhile, I am frazzled, trying to muster up enough energy to get through this and I looked at his nose and it looked a bit bruised and swollen. Oh great...did he break his nose? His school pictures are next Tuesday and this would be the worst timing. It was only bleeding slightly and his eyes weren't turning black like sometimes happens with broken noses, so I thought I would just put an ice pack on and keep the swelling down. No way, Zander did not want to do that at all. We finally agreed that he could finish his ice cream and then I would help him with the ice pack.
Finally after some more chaos, some of my family went home and my kids went to bed. AAAhhhh! At last I can actually visit with my cousin. We had fun talking until past midnight and then they headed out as well. As they were leaving we saw three deer on our front lawn.
This morning I woke up with a horrible headache that has since moved into my sinuses. I was trying to fight off being sick for as long as possible, but alas, I think I am definitely getting some kind of bug, as my throat is also sore. I have been popping echinacea, vitamin c and stinging nettle capsules all day, but my body is just exhausted. After I came to the realization that it would not be wise to go to the Home and Garden Show that I was so looking forward to, I resigned to the idea of staying home and getting some rest. FAT CHANCE. Dan decided to take the kids to a matinee so I could "kick back," but you know how that goes. With the older kids occupied and Hayden down for a nap, I decided to do some fall clean-up in the yard. I transplanted some hardy fuchsia plants and weeded an area that I hadn't tended to since spring. Trimmed off all the dead leaves and branches, weeded and watered. Meanwhile I was also fighting an uphill battle with the pool. My goal for the past week was to get the pool ready for winter, so we could put the cover on. After spending an arm and a leg on chemicals the other week, I just procrastinated and didn't add them to the pool. Now, after testing the water more chemicals were needed before it would be ready to winterize, so Dan spent the other arm and a leg and picked those up on his way home. Unfortunately, before I could add the chemicals to the pool, it had to be free of debris. Trying to clean up all the leaf debris while the near-by tree was shedding its leaves is like trying to shovel snow during a blizzard. I literally spent hours and hours today just cleaning the bottom of the pool, emptying the filters and traps of leaves 5-6 times and skimming the top of the pool with the net. GOOD GRIEF! It seemed like it would never get done. I have a new appreciation for all the work my mother-in-law went through taking care of this pool for so many years.
Finally, after dinner I was able to add the chemicals, but by this time the sun had gone down and it was dark. I super-chlorinated the pool to kill off any traces of algae and bacteria. Tomorrow I will pump that all out and add in the winterizing chemicals and cover her all up for the winter. Hooray!!! No more pool maintenance for 8 months!!!!!
By the way, Zander's nose seems to be fine. The swelling went down and the bruising is hardly visable.
My whole week was a fairly busy one, just taking the kids back and fourth to school is often enough to wear this girl out. This week however, ended with a visit with my cousin Charie who lives in Texas...in fact, we share the same birthday. Anyway, since the whole clan was coming over to my house for dinner, I took it upon myself to clean like a mad woman. There's nothing like company to get my rear in gear, so after I picked Natalie up from school on Friday, I quickly threw together an apple crisp and while it was baking I kicked it up a notch and got some serious housework done...cleaning up all those places that tend to get overlooked until company comes. For me that meant clearing off all the clutter from the dining room table which had become a catch all for the school papers, coupons, misc mail, receipts and remnants from various parties. I also uncluttered the kitchen counters and vacuumed upstairs and downstairs. Zander helped out by putting out the fall decorations. I let him decide where they should go and he was so proud.
By this time my sister-in-law Tami arrived with my nieces Becca and Alexis who were excited to play with Natalie and Zander. My brother Aaron came over soon after and I ran up to my bedroom to quickly make the bed and strategically "hide" all the laundry that I never seem to have time to put away.
Good as new and just in time as everyone else arrived shortly after and I now had to start cooking dinner. We had Thai basil chicken, zucchini casserole, fried rice and salad. Oh, and the kids had grilled cheese sandwiches. It was a group effort and it was all yummy. After dinner, my dad and Tami helped with the dishes (thanks guys!) and then we had dessert. Poor Zander was so excited, he stood up on his chair but then he quickly fell, hitting his nose on the adjacent chair and then landed on the floor, face down. He was a mess. My tough guy was crying pretty hard so I took him to the other room to comfort him, then he started crying more because he wanted to go back and get his ice cream! Meanwhile, I am frazzled, trying to muster up enough energy to get through this and I looked at his nose and it looked a bit bruised and swollen. Oh great...did he break his nose? His school pictures are next Tuesday and this would be the worst timing. It was only bleeding slightly and his eyes weren't turning black like sometimes happens with broken noses, so I thought I would just put an ice pack on and keep the swelling down. No way, Zander did not want to do that at all. We finally agreed that he could finish his ice cream and then I would help him with the ice pack.
Finally after some more chaos, some of my family went home and my kids went to bed. AAAhhhh! At last I can actually visit with my cousin. We had fun talking until past midnight and then they headed out as well. As they were leaving we saw three deer on our front lawn.
This morning I woke up with a horrible headache that has since moved into my sinuses. I was trying to fight off being sick for as long as possible, but alas, I think I am definitely getting some kind of bug, as my throat is also sore. I have been popping echinacea, vitamin c and stinging nettle capsules all day, but my body is just exhausted. After I came to the realization that it would not be wise to go to the Home and Garden Show that I was so looking forward to, I resigned to the idea of staying home and getting some rest. FAT CHANCE. Dan decided to take the kids to a matinee so I could "kick back," but you know how that goes. With the older kids occupied and Hayden down for a nap, I decided to do some fall clean-up in the yard. I transplanted some hardy fuchsia plants and weeded an area that I hadn't tended to since spring. Trimmed off all the dead leaves and branches, weeded and watered. Meanwhile I was also fighting an uphill battle with the pool. My goal for the past week was to get the pool ready for winter, so we could put the cover on. After spending an arm and a leg on chemicals the other week, I just procrastinated and didn't add them to the pool. Now, after testing the water more chemicals were needed before it would be ready to winterize, so Dan spent the other arm and a leg and picked those up on his way home. Unfortunately, before I could add the chemicals to the pool, it had to be free of debris. Trying to clean up all the leaf debris while the near-by tree was shedding its leaves is like trying to shovel snow during a blizzard. I literally spent hours and hours today just cleaning the bottom of the pool, emptying the filters and traps of leaves 5-6 times and skimming the top of the pool with the net. GOOD GRIEF! It seemed like it would never get done. I have a new appreciation for all the work my mother-in-law went through taking care of this pool for so many years.
Finally, after dinner I was able to add the chemicals, but by this time the sun had gone down and it was dark. I super-chlorinated the pool to kill off any traces of algae and bacteria. Tomorrow I will pump that all out and add in the winterizing chemicals and cover her all up for the winter. Hooray!!! No more pool maintenance for 8 months!!!!!
By the way, Zander's nose seems to be fine. The swelling went down and the bruising is hardly visable.
3 comments:
I am tired just from reading this, on work days like this do you miss stella way just a little.....nahhhhhhhhhhh!!! Glad the little guys nose is okay and no head trauma as well. Hang in there and take care of yourself, you are no good to everyone around you if you are sick! ;-)
Poor Zander. That's so sad. Glad his nose is gonna be ok though.
Man-o-man Alyssa. You have had one heck of a week! You sound just like me though. Right after I had Hailey and we had just gotten home Shawn took the boys out for a "date" to let me get some rest while Hailey slept. YEah right. Did I rest? Well, I intended to but we played dress-up in all her new outfits and took fun pictures with flowers, etc. anyway...Shawn got home and just smiled and shook his head. Oh, well. I don't rest very easily especially when there's so much to do. Right? Sometimes you just can't stop thinking of all those things you need to do.
"all those things to do." If I don't have anything, I will think of something to do. Never a dull moment around here. (sadly, not so enthusiastic about the housework)
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