Someone Pinch Me, Please!

Today went very smoothly. We got the kids up at 0645, showered, ate breakfast and drove them to school on time! I wanted to drop them off since they had to take all their supplies in with them. Val's teacher seemed a little frazzled, and E's was relaxed, until I told her about his very small bladder. Mark and I both had to stop in at our respective jobs, we dropped off the jumper at mom's for Ryan, gave her Charlie's childcare schedule, picked up the kids' snackey goodness sent to them by auntie Shannon, and went to the library for 2 hours. We made it home in time for me to walkto their school and pick them up before they got on the bus! They loved walking home, so it might become something we do when I am off. It also gave us time to talk about their day.

I made up a chore list the other day(with the kids' help and suggestions) and they actually were excited to check off all that they had done today (of course, money is involved). The kids are in bed now...and the dishwasher is empty, the recycle and trash is outside, the counters are clean, the clothes are folded, the rooms are clean, and thanks to my cleaning lady, my floors are spotless. We even squeezed in 30 minutes of reading time...and learned some ZANY new words. What an awesome day. Hope tomorrow is more of the same!