- Read my scriptures
- Showered
- Changed, dressed, and fed the boys
- Prepared Bryan's lunch
- Finished loading dishwasher and started it
- Took the boys on a walk
- Convinced Peter to help me weed the garden
- Weeded the garden
- Nearly killed our most productive tomato plant
- Experienced guilt over near-death of tomato plant
- Washed mud off gardening tools
- Washed mud off Peter
- Transferred laundry to dryer
- Started folding laundry
- Put Cooper down for a nap
- Got Cooper forty minutes later
- Folded laundry
- Implored Peter to stop driving his suitcase up Spook Hill, aka laundry
- Folded laundry
- Talked soothingly to Cooper while he threw a tantrum
- Folded laundry
- Made lunch
- Served/ate lunch
- Read scriptures with the boys
- Emptied dishwasher
- Loaded dishwasher
- Cleaned aged food out of the fridge
- Cleaned kitchen
- Noticed ants on kitchen floor
- Moved furniture out of dining room
- Swept kitchen and dining room floors
- Applied ice to Cooper's forehead
- Clipped both boys' toenails
- Mopped kitchen and dining room floors
- Let Peter help mop
- Almost got hit in the face with a mop
- Moved furniture back
- Started another load of laundry
- Warmed up leftovers for dinner
- Negotiated Peter into eating his dinner
- Cleaned up dinner
- Got out hair cutting supplies
- Tried to set-up DVD on laptop to keep boys occupied so I could cut their hair
- Almost went crazy because of unresponsive DVD player
- Finally started a movie
- Cut Peter's hair
- Cut Cooper's hair
- Soothed an hysterical Cooper
- Bathed and dressed Cooper for bed
- Tried to convince Peter that he was done watching his movie so he could take a bath
- Carried a kicking and screaming Peter into the bathroom
- Continued to wrestle a flailing Peter while getting him into the bathtub
- Bathed a sobbing and angrily splashing Peter
- Dressed a suddenly calm Peter
- Calmed an again hysterical Cooper
- Called Bryan at work and said family prayers
- Read bedtime stories
- Sang bedtime songs
- Kissed two sleeping boys goodnight
- Transferred laundry
- Started another load of laundry
- Worked on church calling
- Folded laundry
- Comforted a crying Peter
- Comforted a crying Cooper
- Left the rest of the laundry for today
- Called it a night
Thursday, July 2, 2009
A Life of Ease
Someone recently commented that I was lucky I didn't work. Let's see, yesterday I:
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I'm exhausted just reading about it. Phew!
Don't those comments make you just want to giggle and offer to trade just one day of their work for one day of your non-work and see what they say after that?
Yeah, not working is really easy. I love that kind of comment too.
I like not working too! Ha ha! Have you read "I am a mother?" I liked it, it was a good reminder that we don't need to be apologetic for doing the most important "non-work" known to man!
Yeah, not working wore me out, so I got a job and the fatigue has improved immensely!
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