Much ado About Nothing........

Today has been one of those days. Well...another one of those days. You see it's spring, but it's snowing................ and freezing rain...... and cold.....and....vacation! So we have been cooped up in the house all day. No one wants to play outside, no one wants to do a craft and no one certainly wants to do any chores! So what do we do? Well since noon we pretty much pester each other! Will and Luke that is. So my strategies for dealing with pestering boys this afternoon included...


1. Hour long bath...for each of the kids ...not me(I can only wish) This ate up 2 hours. Works great for separating the kids.

2. Snack time.....4 times today. Usually only 2 times a day but desperate times call for desperate measures. Besides I secretly cut there usual snack in half so they didn't get any more food. That consumed another hour total (4-15 minute sanity breaks), instead of the usual 1/2 an hour.

3. The ever faithful movie. I pulled one out from the way , way, back. Listened to their complaints when they saw my choice. Once it was playing they were totally engrossed. Time spent 1.5 hours. Yeah!!

4. The not-so-popular quiet time. Luke napped from noon-1:30. From 1-1:30 was Mommy quiet time. AKA On the love seat with a magazine and knitting. Will was on the other love seat with a magazine. The only rule is to be...QUIET!!!!

Okay so 5 hours of manageable time, I made it!!!! There were the in between instances of bickering , crying and yes, (I am human) an occasional shout from MOM...but we made it . Tomorrow is another day....

Git R Done

It is such a good feeling to cross things of your to-do list. And today I was crossing off like crazy! I worked this morning as a ballot clerk for the town, took a 2 hour nap, sat down at my computer and spent 2 hours finishing letters and mailing labels, tons of little library and lions stuff that needed to be taken care of. The boys came in the office and played for some of the time . Mostly they played (quietly??weird) upstairs. They were so good. After dinner I went back to work counting the ballots. Oh, somewhere in there I ran errands too. Its like I crammed 2 days worth of work into one afternoon. The downside is with my 2 hour nap I won't be going to bed anytime soon. I have some knitting to work on and I could always add more to NH Family Times blog. I dunno I think I have about 3 hours to fill up. I am gonna start some laundry. Why not? I may as well Git R all Done!!!!!

But for today...........

I'm trying not to miss a day of writing on my blog. But I have started knitting a new pair of socks....and a s boring as it may seem to all you non-knitters... I can't put it down. For all you knitters, you know what I mean. So.... sorry to say I am off to knit. I will return tomorrow with a real entry about something more interesting!! maybe..........