Here is a little snapshot of my day.
First, I must announce that our regular dog-sitter is on a Mediterranean cruise. And we are leaving town on Friday for the very important wedding of our beloved Cokie in Vermont to her beloved Adam.
So I had to get Bordatella shots for two dogs because I must kennel them.
Also, in order for all the ladies in our house to look their best for Cokie's big day, we had to get our hair done.
So Audrey, Helen, and I went to the salon together.
Meanwhile I am trying to set up a Web-site/data base doohickey thing for the School Year of 2009/10. It's distracting, because I really feel obsessed with it.
On top of these there was the added diversion that David's non-stop growth requires that we find a new dress shirt for him....and pants as well.
So there was a wee bit of shopping.....
There was also a full day of school, featuring the declining years of the Roman Republic, another stab at long division for one of my darlings, and a first attempt at essay test taking for another, among other things.
And, it turns out, Michael was just swimming in cash and wanted to open his own checking (chequing?) account... so there was a stop at the bank. Which, by the way, was swarming with policemen, as a crime had just been committed in the bank parking lot.....
There were also three meals, a pile of shirts to iron, two flats of pansies to plant, four loads of laundry, and one missing white Sunday shoe of Maggie's which must be located before the wedding.
So it was just your basic normal day.
And then I went for a run, just at the time I expected Jon to get home for the evening.
But he was held up in a meeting with medical students.
And when I arrived home..... feeling like Rambo,
I found Maggie screaming in acute pain because Daniel's remote control helicopter had landed on her,
and the rear propeller was eating all the hair on the crown of her little blond head.
We got the helicopter prop turned OFF....and then Maggie got a little emergency haircut, as that was the only way to remove the aircraft.
When it quiets down here, I am going to just read and read and read until I fall asleep. That is the really lovely part of this 100 books and a marathon. They are a pressure, but they also offer me an escape.