If all you ever read was my blog, you'd think I was miserable. How now, brown cow but I'm not. I did just eat an In-n-Out burger after doing what I HOPE is May/June shopping at Costco. And of course I had to get a chocolate shake, too... so I'm kinda sickly feeling.
Overall, though, life is in this weird place. It may be Dr. Suess's waiting place from "Oh, The Places You'll Go!". Pretty sure it is. Waiting for ... something.
I just really don't know how people do it who make it all look so perfect. They get their kids off to school, go exercise, have time to clean and shop and do the laundry and the dishes and somehow keep up with things I haven't seen in years like... tv. I mean, whatever- we cancelled the cable because we were never watching it except like six months later on TiVo and then you might as well just rent the DVDs. IF YOU COULD SEE MY LAUNDRY PILE YOU'D DIE. No really, because you'd fall in and be smothered. And I did four loads yesterday, I am not kidding. I think there are dresses in there from Easter, if not Christmas. I coach soccer, occasionally cook a meal or three for my family, make lunches, go to brownies and dentist and doctor appointments.
I still can't seem to beat the laundry, the dishes, the dust, the kids stuff everywhere...
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So, I wrote the above on Wednesday and it is now Sunday. It's 10am and I am still in my pajamas though I got up at 6 am. The house was so quiet- not even any of those sighs or creaks that seemed so loud when I was a kid and laid awake in my bed at night waiting for sleep to come. Yet, there were my girls and Dean, all breathing slow and heavily in their sleep next to me in bed. If I could have those five minutes forever, I'd be perfectly content. Today is Ave's soccer party and then the season draws to a close until the fall.
Yesterday was brutally hot so I forced myself out of bed this morning to make sure the windows were open to let in the cool morning air. Yesterday, by Ave's 9:30 game it was 95 degrees out. I got up at six am and aired out the house knowing we were going to have a scorcher. At 7:30, the sun was up, high and hot and I knew it was going to be a miserably hot day, looks like a repeat performance today. We were having friends for dinner and the last thing I wanted to do was spend the day cooking and cleaning in a house that was already cooking. Called up and changed our dinner date to the park down the street. We had Vi's game at 12:30- last one of the season and they were winning by so much that we ended up swapping our back line for our front line and let the defenders get their chance to score some goals. It was a good day despite the pounding headache I got from being out in the sun for too long(yay sunblock!).
Later, Dean went and picked up chicken and meat and I cut up a bunch of veggies and packed up our dinner picnic. We stayed at the park until after nine and the mosquitoes started coming out. Our sort-of-neighbor Sarah, her husband and son, joined us as well. We had a very impromptu soccer game that was fantastic. Dean and I came home and hung out for a bit, discussing swine flu and conspiracy theories then watched a movie together. Dean and I fell asleep on top of the covers and when I woke this morning the girls had piled in between us.
We have a soccer party today for Ave and then... who knows. The laundry, of course... still waits, lurking like a multicolored monster on the laundryroom floor and... okay, right now all over the living room where I have the ironing board set up. Maybe I'll get some "chores" done before the party so we can have some down time this afternoon.
Back to the grind tomorrow but I'm trying not to think of that just yet. No more soccer practice to look forward to, either. But soon, soon school will be out and we'll be spending long hot days in the pool...
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