August 19, 2009
My crazy day!
My day began with taking the boys to school, then coming home and feeding little miss THING. lol She’s two, and quite a handful!
I have been dreading going through the boys’ clothes and getting rid of things they can no longer wear. Well, today…. I gathered up the steam to just do it and get it over with!
I filled an entire twin sized bed with clothes my boys can no longer wear, piled about two feet high! WOW! I knew they had a lot of clothes they couldn’t wear, but I had NO idea there was THAT many.
I hung their jackets, long sleeved shirts, polo shirts and pants. I neatly folded their t-shirts, pajamas, underwear and shorts and placed them neatly in the dresser.
Then I had the bed full of clothes they can’t wear to deal with. What am I going to do with ALL these clothes!?!?! I called my son’s school and asked if they knew of any kids that NEEDED clothes. I mean, I can donate these to a thrift store and let them sell them, but I would much rather give them to needy kids. I know there are kids at my son’s school that wear raggedy, holey clothes to school. These clothes have been passed down from friends and my kids wore them, but there is still a lot of life left for someone who can’t afford to buy clothes.
While in the middle of doing the clothes, my mother in law gets released from the hospital from having knee surgery. My sister in law was taking her daughter to the doctor and couldn’t go get her mom. I had to wake Brookelyn up from her nap and take her to get “nanny”. It was a 45 minute drive, one way.
We got home, I put my mother in law in my bed to sleep. After all, she was pretty well doped up on pain meds.
I went and got the boys from the bus stop. Came home to my mother in law UP and walking around. She isn’t supposed to be left alone, but I had to get my kids.
I took my mother in law to pick up her medicines, took her by her brother’s to borrow his walker, took her by her daughter’s to get her apartment key, then took her home. I helped her to the couch and fixed her some ice cold tea before I left.
I came back home and washed more clothes. This is my third (I think) load for the day. I’ve already taken clothes to our closet twice today. I’ve put all the kids clothes neatly away (which I usually slack at because they won’t leave them folded & hung neatly).
It’s dinner time now. But…. because of my dishwasher SMOKING yesterday when it was running, it’s no longer in the house, and oh yeah… I have NO hot water in the kitchen. I can’t wash dishes without hot water. I can’t cook dinner without clean dishes. So… I have no idea what we’re eating tonight but I’m getting really hungry!
So my kids are going CRAZY and wild. Billy swept the kitchen floor (that’s his daily chore) and Dakota picked up the living room floor.
Ok, so there’s my crazy day in a nutshell… how was yours? lol
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