The Puddles

Monday was . . . well . . . Monday.  Nothing too remarkable.  The day started with school.  Getting back into our weekday routine is always a little rough.  But we got everyone off to school.  Then on the way home, the government had decided to close the back entrance to the neighborhood for road repairs which caused me to have to go completely around to the front of the neighborhood in order to get home.  That took an additional 20 minutes. Then I sat down at my desk and didn’t get up until the elementary bus arrived to drop the youngest two kids off.  Daddy called from Greece right at that time so he greeted the kids off of the bus via FaceTime.   That was fun.  The kids loved talking with Daddy!

We loved talking to Daddy, but we still had to drive Ben’s heart monitor up to the hospital and drop it off.  Of course, we are running late because we have to pick up Madie from school at 5:00.  So I call Aunt Debra to see if she can help because she has an appointment for Gordon at the same place we had to drop off the equipment.  She says she will take up the monitor to the third floor and we agree to give Gordon a snack of goldfish to help out.  Then we arrive well before Aunt Debra (she is caught in traffic) and are able to get the monitor dropped off and are still waiting in the lobby for five minutes before Aunt Debra even arrives.  But we promised goldfish to Gordon so we stuck around.

We made good time getting to Madie’s school and we were only five minutes late picking her up.  After one stop at the drugstore, we make it home.  I am determined to have an earlier bedtime for everyone, so we get dinner made and everyone bathed and in bed by 7:30.  I am tired right now thinking about it.  Ainsley and I had our bedtime devotions over a cup of tea again, and I even was able to read with Ben and check his bp all before bedtime. It was a busy evening.  Hopefully having the kids get plenty of sleep will help Tuesday go more smoothly.  The best part of my day was going to bed that night to find two friends already asleep in my bed.  They had decided to yet again move to mom’s bed after they were tucked into their own beds.  At the rate we are going, Chris had better hurry home or there won’t be any room left for him!