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jennickelsUgh. I hate when I slack off for a couple days than try and catch up in one. You think I would learn by now. But, alas, I have not.
My back and feet are still killing me and I've mostly sat on my butt since 9pm. It's currently 1:30am here and I'm still up for some crazy reason. Luckily there will be a houseful of girls to take care of the baby in the morning. It's amazing how much 10-12 year olds like to care for babies.
So I got a lot of the hard stuff on my LIST done. It wore me out but I was determined to cross out the big stuff. I cleaned the kitchen (several times thanks to having to cook and bake and deal with raw meat...blah). Then I tackled the yard. Meagan was whining and throwing a fit over wanting her party tonight and wanting to camp out in the back yard. But before I could set up the tent I had to cut the grass. But I couldn't just cut the back yard (like my husband would have done... actually he wouldn't have cut any grass and just put the tent up). So I started in the front yard. Then I trimmed all the bushes. We have way too many bushes and they are just so random. But they were horribly overgrown and needed pruning. With hand shears. My hands hurt, too. Then I cut the backyard. Our yard doesn't look real big but it sure feels like it when you're mowing
By the time I finished with the yard work three hours had gone by and Meagan was getting antsy. She sneaked off to watch TV with her friends instead of helping me. Brenna started to help but picking up thorny trimmings wasn't her idea of a good time so she quiet after one box full (we dump them in the brambles behind our yard since we can't afford to add yard waste pick-up to our already outrageous trash bill). The trimmings are still all over the yard so I'll have to pick them up in the morning.
Then I set the tent up with help from Meagan's friend Jamie. Not sure how we managed but we got it up. The thing is huge and sleeps 10 adults comfortably. The one time we all used it we had a queen mattress on one side and the 4 kids slept on the other side and then there's a huge room right in the middle. You can fit a queen mattress in each section with room to walk around them.
Somewhere in between all that I managed to eat lunch, bake a cake, make dinner and deal with a fussy Jack.
Now I have 4 girls camped out in my back yard (my older two and their two friends). Nora was going to sleep in the tent but she was falling asleep while they were watching a movie so I made her bring her stuff back inside. She's asleep on the living room floor, lol. Owen is in his room.
I also got some writing in once the girls got settled out in the tent. I did two challenges for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fictionland. One was to write for 10 minutes and post whatever we wrote (times two). I used writeordie.com and got the beginnings of two stories--one original and one Firefly fic. The other challenge was to write a story that was exactly 333 words long. Grrr. I had to do some fudging and editing and I'm still not satisfied with the ending but I'm too tired to deal with it any more. I posted it at the challenge but I might fiddle with it some more before I post it to my journal. In the morning.
Tomorrow I'm doing nothing. I'm going to be so freaking tired. My husband has to be up in like an hour or so to go to work. I'll be on my own with the kids until 7pm tomorrow night. Jack seems to be coming down with a little cold (poor guy). Nora's coughing, too (probably where Jack got it from). Owen is grounded because he left his boundaries while hanging out with his buddy. I'm pretty free-range when it comes to my kids but they still aren't allowed to roam where ever they want, especially without telling me where they are going. Now he's in trouble so he'll be driving me nuts. Maybe I'll put him to work cleaning up the bush clippings.
Oh and there's still that houseful of girls. Poor Owen. It will be me, Owen, Jack and 5 girls. Oy.
Oh yeah, forgot my brother said he might come up tomorrow. That means I can't even veg out the whole day because I have to cook and straighten up before he gets here. Ugh.
I'm hoping to finish typing up two stories I have finished and finish the two I started for the 10 minute challenge. I doubt I get to it all if my brother shows up.
I need to go to bed. I can't stop yawning now. I hate to go now and wake my husband up an hour before he has to get up but I'm so freaking tired.
My back and feet are still killing me and I've mostly sat on my butt since 9pm. It's currently 1:30am here and I'm still up for some crazy reason. Luckily there will be a houseful of girls to take care of the baby in the morning. It's amazing how much 10-12 year olds like to care for babies.
So I got a lot of the hard stuff on my LIST done. It wore me out but I was determined to cross out the big stuff. I cleaned the kitchen (several times thanks to having to cook and bake and deal with raw meat...blah). Then I tackled the yard. Meagan was whining and throwing a fit over wanting her party tonight and wanting to camp out in the back yard. But before I could set up the tent I had to cut the grass. But I couldn't just cut the back yard (like my husband would have done... actually he wouldn't have cut any grass and just put the tent up). So I started in the front yard. Then I trimmed all the bushes. We have way too many bushes and they are just so random. But they were horribly overgrown and needed pruning. With hand shears. My hands hurt, too. Then I cut the backyard. Our yard doesn't look real big but it sure feels like it when you're mowing
By the time I finished with the yard work three hours had gone by and Meagan was getting antsy. She sneaked off to watch TV with her friends instead of helping me. Brenna started to help but picking up thorny trimmings wasn't her idea of a good time so she quiet after one box full (we dump them in the brambles behind our yard since we can't afford to add yard waste pick-up to our already outrageous trash bill). The trimmings are still all over the yard so I'll have to pick them up in the morning.
Then I set the tent up with help from Meagan's friend Jamie. Not sure how we managed but we got it up. The thing is huge and sleeps 10 adults comfortably. The one time we all used it we had a queen mattress on one side and the 4 kids slept on the other side and then there's a huge room right in the middle. You can fit a queen mattress in each section with room to walk around them.
Somewhere in between all that I managed to eat lunch, bake a cake, make dinner and deal with a fussy Jack.
Now I have 4 girls camped out in my back yard (my older two and their two friends). Nora was going to sleep in the tent but she was falling asleep while they were watching a movie so I made her bring her stuff back inside. She's asleep on the living room floor, lol. Owen is in his room.
I also got some writing in once the girls got settled out in the tent. I did two challenges for
fictionland. One was to write for 10 minutes and post whatever we wrote (times two). I used writeordie.com and got the beginnings of two stories--one original and one Firefly fic. The other challenge was to write a story that was exactly 333 words long. Grrr. I had to do some fudging and editing and I'm still not satisfied with the ending but I'm too tired to deal with it any more. I posted it at the challenge but I might fiddle with it some more before I post it to my journal. In the morning.Tomorrow I'm doing nothing. I'm going to be so freaking tired. My husband has to be up in like an hour or so to go to work. I'll be on my own with the kids until 7pm tomorrow night. Jack seems to be coming down with a little cold (poor guy). Nora's coughing, too (probably where Jack got it from). Owen is grounded because he left his boundaries while hanging out with his buddy. I'm pretty free-range when it comes to my kids but they still aren't allowed to roam where ever they want, especially without telling me where they are going. Now he's in trouble so he'll be driving me nuts. Maybe I'll put him to work cleaning up the bush clippings.
Oh and there's still that houseful of girls. Poor Owen. It will be me, Owen, Jack and 5 girls. Oy.
Oh yeah, forgot my brother said he might come up tomorrow. That means I can't even veg out the whole day because I have to cook and straighten up before he gets here. Ugh.
I'm hoping to finish typing up two stories I have finished and finish the two I started for the 10 minute challenge. I doubt I get to it all if my brother shows up.
I need to go to bed. I can't stop yawning now. I hate to go now and wake my husband up an hour before he has to get up but I'm so freaking tired.
