I can easily get wrapped up in something and forget about other things...like for example Katie's HOMEWORK!! Since she only has school on Tuesdays and Thursdays and some Fridays, Thursday HOMEWORK in her communication bag was placed on top of the fridge, with various other things. After that it was a blur....we kinda got sick or some were still sick. Then it was the weekend, busy with this and that. And then Monday rolled around...it was all D-O-G talk....what to get? Should we get one? Buy a puppy or get a needy dog from a shelter, we were basically looking for advice!! THEN in the afternoon, Katie puked all over her Dora carpet(which has been rolled up and tossed...shhhh don't tell my Mom).
Its NOW Tuesday morning...I wake up to Josh screaming "NASTY...Alex is all WET!" Alex comes trotting in our room and tries to touch and play with a scented candle(Holiday Berries) and then drops it on my foot as I try to catch him and the candle.....after changing and dressing him and Katie and picking out stuff for Josh...I trot downstairs in DIRE NEED for coffee...after making the coffee and making lunches, I grab the communication bag on top of the fridge...it then hits me....KATIE'S HOMEWORK!!
She was suppose to decorate a cut out gingerbread and bring it back to class. Use crayons, markers, fabric, yarn, stickers, glitter glue etc etc etc....CRAP...I was going to do this on the weekend...go to Walmart and beautify our Gingerbread WOMAN!! Quickly thinking...what did we have??? Markers(basically dead....I heard that Santa is bringing new ones), crayons broken and little bits here and there(Santa is bringing new ones too...so I've been told) and some pencil crayons....and no real bling of any kind. Katie is going to have a SUCKY, pathetic Gingerbread.....those were my thoughts....she cant go to school with that!!! I even asked her, "are you sure you feel better to go to school??" Hoping that she would want to stay home! Nope...didn't work!!
Quickly, I outlined a top and pants...Katie coloured the top with a deep burgundy and the pants black. She drew a face, I drew curly, brown hair. We needed BLING and fast...thinking quickly, I remembered my Holiday stickers that I was putting on Christmas Cards...they had two glittered bulbs...those would become earrings!! Little blue, glittery stars would decorate the shoes...NICE!! HUH!!?? Then glittered Candy Canes would become buttons on the shirt...nicely done!! Then I found red and gold, glitter ribbon....I cut some off and it became a shawl for our Gingerbread Woman!!HA!! Beat that!! I just wish now that we took a picture...cause in 20 minutes we had a design that looked like it took longer!!! LIKE we planned it all out...HA HA!!
It was then too....I realized she had other homework....homework that had to go back with comments...(beep).....Thankfully Katie can count and recognize numbers from 0-20.....we quickly went through the cards! I asked her after, "do you have any questions, do you understand it?" YUP was all I needed to hear...phew...quickly I wrote in the book how she can count and recognize numbers...make some more stuff up...babble babble babble....gather it all up, put it in her bag, grab lunches...make sure they finish breakfast and out the door....DONE!!
That was my morning!! All done in an hour and a half!! AND I had time to wash my face and put on mascara!!! AND get 3 cups of coffee into ME!! How was your morning??
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