Today's to-do list is seeming particularly long. A bulk of the items need to be accomplished before 9:45 a.m. Let's hope that blue marker stationed right next to the list can keep both Zoey and I motivated to zip through all we need to do. Because...wow. Was I high when I made this list last night?? Or just standard-issue delusional?
Two big ticket items on the agenda today:
1. Exterminators are coming at 9:45 to spray the house for fleas. Because my child is getting eaten alive, and I can only run so many loads of laundry. Seriously. I almost died when I opened our Puget Sound Energy bill last month. So I have scraped together enough money to bring me peace of mind and an end to my daughter's scabby little legs. Just writing about these vile little bugs makes me scratch.
2. Zoey goes to the dentist. Which should be, you know, LOTS of fun. We've been reading The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist and Mercer Mayer's Little Critter book about visiting the dentist, to no avail. Any mention of the dentist trip today brings on the quivery lip and tears to the big brown eyes. However, she HAS informed me that she will be a "very brave girl" so she can go to the bookstore and pick out a new book afterwards. If the whole flu-shot incident of several weeks ago is any indicator, then we will be defining "very brave girl" quite loosely and I may have created a monster by always linking trips to the doctor with trips to the bookstore in her wee little mind.
Ahhh, the quiet. I am sitting back just now to enjoy it. Soon the entire household will be up and hustling around...Bryan to get out the door for work (and let me tell you how happy and relieved I am to be saying that), me to get showered and somehow corral our two cats in the garage, Zoey to slowly make her way through the morning routine while weilding her big, fat blue marker...always ready to cross something off the list.
Coffee, give me strength to get through the day. Amen.
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i'll call you soon! ..oh and hey, start harrassing tom to leave you comments. he's better about keeping up with it than i am, which is saying something.
Sooooooo, when Camper was in the NICU for a week, I had John go to the bookstore and bring him a new book every day. We wrote in the back the day it was for and the new thing he did that day. He was, of course, oblivious...but there is something about books and bookstores that just comforts me. And since doctor's visits are only so often- I think it's a good tradition! I might have to start that one myself. Except his doctor gives him a book when we go anyway...so ack. Maybe when that stops. Haha.
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