Yeah, right. Sigh. I’m NOT morning person. Anyone who knows me knows that. It’s just a fact of life. Well, Saturday night I picked up a friend’s kids so she could go on the church staff retreat. The kids are great. Very polite, nice, and the boy (11) even took out my garbage yesterday for me with no arguments. They even complimented me on my cooking last night. It’s been great. But, this morning I had to get up at 6:30AM to get them up. And, 11 year olds don’t just get up when you say good morning. No, you have to remind them a couple of times to get up. I’m not used to that.
We got up and dressed without any problems and I drove them to school. There school is across town from me. Which isn’t a problem except that the oldest starts school at 8AM and the youngest at 9AM. So, I dropped the oldest off at 7:30 (because he wanted to see his friends and, theoretically, so he could eat breakfast — although he admitted that doesn’t happen) then I took the youngest to get a donut. Unfortunately the donut place was closed so we went to Safeway instead then I dropped her off.
Another thing some of you may not know but I’m neurotic about my house. I don’t deal well with clutter. It makes me nervous. Well, despite my offering (many times) for them to sleep on the air mattresses in my office they wanted to sleep in the living room. That’s fine, except that means there are pillow, sheets, blankets, air mattresses and dirty socks all over my living room. Not to mention empty glasses and snack plates. But, OK, it’s only a couple days (if it was longer I would have insisted they sleep in the office). Then I come in to my office to work and there are clothing articles all over. Have you heard of a suitcase??? That’s where I keep my clothes when I’m traveling! LOL
OK, seriously, I’m not complaining. The kids are great, I’m having fun having them here (well, except the 6:30AM alarm). I’m just neurotic. I’m used to my simple, quiet, ordered life. Disorder unsettles me — OK, it makes me crazy (although that’s pretty much an all-time thing for me LOL).
Oh, and I put the hooks up ALL BY MYSELF yesterday. 
So, now two of my hanging plants are hanging AND I put the hook up for my windchime out front. I’m really proud of myself. The third hanging plant is going to stay on the ground…I might get a table or something for it but it’s heavy and I’m afraid it’s too heavy for a hook. I really don’t want it to fall so I’d rather it stay on the ground. It looks fine as a table plant so I’m not worried.
The windchimes sound nice. I have my window open and i can look outside and see the flowers and hear the chimes. And, you can smell the flowers when you walk up. All my neighbors have commented that they smell so good walking up the stairs. We’ve determined it must be mine…although it might be the lady next door.
Till later…
