Well I'm sitting here alone listening to the rain hit my roof, which it has been doing ALL day, reflecting on my day. It has been a crazy day. With company coming this weekend, I started with getting caught up on the laundry. The kids laundry baskets, along with my own were overflowing. I went up to Keaton and Sam's room to put away some stray socks, and found a mess that has been building for some time now. So in order to find the dirty clothes which were scattered amongst the toys, I began cleaning and throwing away things that I was sick of picking up. I always had a little resentment towards my mother for getting rid of my toys. I would have liked to still have some of the special ones and share the memories with my kids, but now I totally see why she got rid of them. You get so tired of picking up the same toys day after day that you really don't care how much money you spent on them or that donating them to good will would be a better option, you just want them gone! So in the garbage they go. The kids will never know anyway. They have so much stuff right now it's ridiculous! So after cleaning and vacuuming all the rooms up stairs, I spent the rest of the day folding laundry, dusting, polishing, and vacuuming, the main level and finally the basement. I then have only 45 minutes until I need to pick up the kids from school. Today was Thursday, which means piano lessons for Amber, Ben, and Sam. From 4:30 to 6:00. I just remember that Amber needs a doz. bars to take to the dinner and vocal concert at 5:45. So I walk into the kitchen to grab a box of brownie mix out of the cupboard and find Keaton on the floor with my bottle of furniture polish. He has sprayed it all over the floor. He says "look mom! I'm cleaning the floor!" Now some people might see this as cute and "oh he's being so helpful", I didn't see it this way at all. He stands up and being bare-foot falls flat on his butt! It was an oil furniture polish that is not to be used on floors. So I almost fall down trying to get to him and pick him up and carry him out so he doesn't track it everywhere, and then I get to spend the 45 minutes cleaning off the floor so people can walk in the kitchen without slipping and sliding everywhere. That was not easy to clean up let me tell you! So after I pick up the kids in the pouring rain, and after I take Sam to his piano lesson, I run to Hy-Vee to see what I can find at the bakery. They had some carrot cake bars! Perfect! I go pick up Ben and Keaton from the house, drive to the high school to pick up Amber from Jazz band practice, take Ben to piano, pick up Sam, drive home to let Amber change and grab a bite to eat and take her back to the high school. I pick up Ben from piano, take them all home, fix dinner, go do the chores in the rain (Bret's on call) put the little boys to bed, grab my camera and head to Amber's chorus concert. She wants me to record their performance. It was nice to hear some nice music, I wish I could've sat down, I got there after it already started and it was a packed house. It was 6th through 12th grade chorus groups so lots of parents. I had to park pretty far away and run in the rain to the school. Needless to say I was pretty wet when I got to the school. It was very stuffy in the auditorium and me in my rain jacket and couldn't really take it off. I was sweltering, standing in the back trying to record with people walking back and forth in front of me. I must say I wasn't enjoying myself. Finally I'm home all the kids are in bed and I'm looking forward to a good night sleep. Well as good as I can get with Bret's pager going off all night. Gotta love call nights!