Friday, August 26, 2005
DAY NUMBER TWO!
So here I am, up again and at the computer before 7:00 a.m. The daughter got up a little easier this morning and is trying out a routine that starts at 6:15 (only because I was late getting her up). She is in between the stage where she wants to look her very best and the stage where she wants to be lazy...I've been fighting with her for ten minutes on why she should blow dry her hair because it makes it look better than just leaving it to dry on it's own. I won, sort of. She did go to blow dry it but came out with it half wet still. The outfit she has on is fine for a day at home...the pants are a little too short for her and the shirt isn't one that I would have ever picked for her...it's ugly. But I guess I can't tell her how to dress. She still has to make her bed and eat breakfast but I think next week is doable. I'll be setting her alarm for fifteen minutes earlier than today and another couple of days of this routine and she'll be fine. She was out until 10:00 last night and I think she's realizing that that isn't a good bedtime for when school gets in. She's dragging her butt. Fo me, the routine still sucks. I woke up at 5:45 this morning and my eyes stung when I tried to open them...they just weren't ready for daylight I guess. I did manage to pull myself out and got ready before hubby got home from night shift. I've been thinking about the added hours to daylight savings time. I understand it to mean that there will be an extra week in the fall before we set the clocks back, (keep in mind that this means the trick or treaters will either be starting out in the daylight, which you know won't happen, or they will start an hour later and that means we'll have trick or treaters pounding at the door still at 9 p.m.) and we will set our clocks forward in the spring a week early. That means that we'll have an extra week at the end of the school year trying to get our kids to bed in the daylight and they'll hate that. It's all a part of CHANGE! And I hate change. I know you all do too. Anyhow, that's how the day has started for me...and it looks to be a busy day with helping with the parade float for a few hours and heading to work tonight...and I'm sure there will be ten kids at the house all day, hopefully not before hubby wkaes up. I'm looking for some new interesting posts out there...I think we are all jet lagged from the summer. Have a great day peoples! Luvs to you all!
