2-for-1

Yesterday I got a phone call setting up a showing of our house today from 4-5:00. It wasn't too bad of a time, I figured I'd throw something in a crockpot and set the bread machine, then when we got home at five, I'd have dinner all ready.

I did a little cleaning yesterday, but pretty much spent the whole day today doing nothing but clean. In the middle of my scouring frenzy, I got another phone call, setting up a showing for tonight from 6:30-7:30. It was a bit on the late side, but I thought, Hey! I might as well get two showings out of my efforts. So that kind of scrapped the crock pot/bread machine idea.

I made Meagan take a nap when Sean went down today (about 1:30) because she's been a monster lately, and it got both of them out of my hair for a bit, too. Ha ha. They didn't sleep as long as I wanted them to, though, and when they got up, Sean was making messes faster than I was cleaning. So I picked him up and carried him around while I straightened up his messes, then we went outside and sat in the front yard until Bethany's bus got home. I didn't even let her go in the house. We just piled in the van and drove off. This was about 3:45.

I had a lot of time to kill with the kids, and I didn't even have any errands to run. We ended up going to the mall. There's a dog store there that we visited. In the front of the store was a small cage with two chihuahuas in it. One was black and white and the other was brown and white. Bethany fell in love with those dogs. She'd run around the cage, and they'd follow, barking the whole time. We left to go look at the other dogs, but Bethany didn't want to look at them, she just wanted to go back to the chihuahuas. Meagan asked me what their names were, and I told her that they didn't have names--they were waiting for someone to take them home and give them names. I don't know if Bethany realized that they were for sale before that, but she asked me if we could take the black and white one home. I've been expecting Bethany to ask for a dog for a long time now. She's always seemed to prefer them to cats. The puppies were cute and all, but just thinking about having to toilet train a dog, and letting it outside to poop on the lawn and it chewing up everything in the house--no thanks. I can barely tolerate the cats' messes at times, and when they die, that's it--no more house pets for me, thank you very much.

Anyway, after we left the pet store, they played on the indoor playground for a bit, but Sean kept leaving it and trying to run away, so I got bored with it pretty fast. Then Meagan didn't like some boys who wanted to play chase with her, and just sat by me instead of playing, and then Bethany fell and hurt herself. Yeah, it was kind of a dud. Oh, well. We met up with Nate at a restaurant, had dinner, and still had almost an hour before we could go home. We went to Michaels where I found some crown shaped candles that will be perfect for Meagan's birthday cake--she wants a princess castle. I also got some edible pink glitter for it, too. After that we went to Petsmart. It was dog training night, so there were TONS of dogs there. The girls had a blast going around asking if they could pet various dogs. They got licked a lot, and thought that was just great. Finally, after that, it was time to go home.

Now it's evening, the kids are all in bed, and the house is relatively quiet.

Haha...just as I typed that, Sean started crying. He's got a molar coming in, and I'm hoping that's what his problem is. I gave him some Tylenol, and Nate is putting him back to bed right now. Let's hope he goes down okay.

Other than that, my whole night is free, and guilt-free. The upside of all the cleaning today is that there are no chores waiting for me tonight--not even laundry to fold or dinner to clean up. It's kind of nice. I don't get many evenings like this. I'll often take a break anyway, but in the back of my mind, I'm thinking that I really should be doing XYZ. So I'm just going to kick back and enjoy it.