Monday

This is my day:

• Ryan had a low grade fever and was feeling puny, complaining of a headache again. He sounded stuffed up to me so I'm thinking he might be getting a sinus infection or something. I hope not but I wouldn't be surprised. Motrin has proven to solve the problem quite nicely.
• I wanted to give the dogs a bath before I took a bath because, well, it only makes sense! So I cleaned the laundry room, where they sleep. There's no point in cleaning them if I don't clean where they sleep and what they sleep on. That involves hands and knees on the floor with a washrag and bowl of hot, soapy water and a load of laundry. After bathing the dogs in the tub, I had to clean the tub.

On a side note, have you ever read the books If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If you Give a Moose a Muffin and If You Give a Pig a Pancake? There are others in the series that we have but I can't think of them right now. I think my dog bathing sounds a bit like those stories. It's a never ending cycle!

• After my own bath, Ryan and I cleaned his room and swept it. He tried to get out of it at first by saying he didn't feel good and needed to rest so I gave him the option of taking a nap or helping me and, of course, he didn't want to take a nap so he helped me. =)
• I forget what exactly I did next but I know I loaded the dishwasher, did a couple loads of laundry, ate lunch and filed some bills.
• Oh yeah, I also received a package in the mail from my dear s.i.l which contained some things for Hannah and Ryan from Kara and some goodies for me! Thanks again Jess!
• After I got Hannah from school we worked on her spelling words for the week. She brought home a bunch of work from last week, including her spelling test from last week. She got a 67 on it!! We practiced those words every single night but I knew she wasn't going to do well. She couldn't get several of them right. Who gives a first grades the words "them" "then" and "thin" on the same test?! Well, Hannah couldn't keep them straight. Anyway, I clearly expressed that I was not happy with that grade and that we would have to work harder this week if I saw she was having just as much trouble as she did last week. When we started working on this weeks words, she had a meltdown. First of all she thought I was mad at her because of the grade, which I never said, and I made sure she knew after that that I wasn't mad at her. She was crying that she is not a good speller and can't do it and so on. Finally we got thru the words. Shew!
• Then I had to make her mad again when I reminded her that daddy said she had to clean her room this evening. That caused another meltdown and lots more crying.
• By suppertime I had a headache and had to send the kids outside to play so they'd quit bickering. It rained a lot this morning but the sun did eventually make an appearance and it was about 70 degrees. They ended up next door at grandma's but I just didn't care.
• I let them play in the bathtub for a change, since I just cleaned it! Then we read a few books and it was bedtime at 7 on the dot.
• I have a feeling I won't be far behind.
• Brad is on his way home, finally.