No time like the present

There’s always something else I have to do before I can start writing a blog. Something else I have to accomplish or a reason not to get started.

Instead of waiting for all that, I’m just going to jump in. Why? Because I have now stepped in the spot where the Old Lady wet the floor and I cleaned it up for the third time in the last hour. Make that 5 times. It’s hard to remember to step over a spot in the floor when you’re carrying a 5 year old (who is perfectly capable of walking to his room) and putting his 17 month old sister back to bed for the third time in the last half hour. Some days are like this.

Actually, it’s been a really wonderful day, besides the spot on the floor and the trauma of picking splinters out of both of the boys. Hopefully they’ve learned to tell me when they get splinters instead of waiting a couple of days. Probably not.

We went to a local fair where we met a friend of B’s from school and spent the afternoon with them. There were animals to see and pet, rides to ride, junk food to eat, and some extra parents who are thrilled to carry E “on their heads” which we try to avoid these days, given that he’s 40 pounds and not quite 4 feet tall.

On tonight’s exciting schedule, we have trying to keep the kids in bed, which has become increasingly entertaining since A has decided that sleeping at night is for other people, and trying to finish spinning up some merino/silk in time for a friend’s birthday. Which is tomorrow, but I won’t see her until Tuesday night, so I might actually finish enough to give her some kind of present. Oh, and I have to fix a bear sweater since, for reasons that escape me, a whole bunch of ends have decided to detach themselves and start unraveling the sweater. And the bear doesn’t like the shirt he’s been wearing in the meantime, so I need to fix his sweater right now.

I hope he can wait until after dinner.