being lazy...

I am a lazy girl. Seriously. I got up this morning at 9:00, after deciding last night not to send the kids to school today on this half-day...and realized I need milk from the store. So I made up the egg mixture for French Toast, and left Samuel cooking, with firm instructions not to walk away from the stove or let any napkins or papertowels go near the burners, and had Aaron and Kathryn watching the kids. Evelyn, Suzanne, and I went to the small store in the nearby town, 5 miles down the road. $70 later, I had my milk. And bacon and sausage and more eggs and muffins and bread and orange juice and oranges and bananas and broccoli and some Coke (for the Norwegians) and some chips and some deli turkey breast ($2.99 a pound).......

Anyway, the kids are all outside, and I am taking a break. The dishwasher is running and the washer and dryer are running, and I am sitting here with my feet up. Ahh, it feels good.

Emily didn't have work last night so she was over, and since she works nights, she tries to stay up all night when she isn't working, so she stayed to almost one o'clock. There were at least a dozen of us staying up and talking and laughing. I forget sometimes that I am old, and these are all young people. But they don't seem to mind.

This afternoon Mirielle and Mali and Margaret and Kathryn are going shopping with Stine and Caroline. I want to go! But I will stay here with the kids. It is like summer here in the Northeast: 60 degrees and sunny. Absolutely pleasant and beautiful.

The front yard probably looks pretty out of the ordinary for passers-by: there is soccer playing and trampoline jumping and baseball.....and tree climbing, of course. The other day I looked out the window, and Suzanne was up in a tree, wearing just a sundress and bare feet. It isn't THAT warm out, but when the winter has been so long and cold, they think it is.

I had a dream the other night that I was expecting a baby boy. In the dream, I had nothing ready at all. In reality, when I have babies, I buy all new things and have everything ready weeks before.....I would like that dream to come true, except I would be ready....

I saw lots of pretty babies in the museum yesterday. It was the first time I have gone there without a stroller. I have noticed something, it is this: it isn't so much having lots of kids that is so busy, it is having a baby, or a busy young just toddler, crawling or just learning to walk. Or possibly the combination of the two. At any rate, just having lots of kids isn't all that difficult when the youngest one starts getting more independent. At least at the museum it wasn't. It was fun and easy and went by too fast.

But now I would like to dedicate a paragraph to truths.....

1. I am lazy.

2. I am learning to not care what people think about me. That is why I am sitting here taking a break when I should be cleaning up the house. Especially with company here. But, oh well.

3. Sometimes my kids are unthankful and I think I probably spoil them too much.

4. I am going to eat better and excercise more, tomorrow. Every single day.

5. I would rather sit in the sun that do just about anything, and that is where I am headed.

6. Now that our company has been here a few days, I don't really care very much about keeping the house clean.

7. Benjamin broke the cupboard door off in the kitchen last night, accidentally, of course. I wonder how long it will be like that. I AM glad for some reason that it happened when our guests were here, and not before they got here. I wouldn't want them to think we just live like that.ha.

8. I was slightly embarrassed by all the crumbs in our big van.

9. Camille is dressed in the clothes she wore yesterday. She took them out of the dirty clothes hamper and put them on herself, when I was at the store. I didn't change them.

10. I am going to go sit out in the sun......