today...

• kids got woke up early by a loud thunderstorm. 

• i kept a child home from school to finish their book report, which is due tomorrow. 

• i had to miss my morning walk to help said child with their book report. 

• i ate 1/2 bowl of chocolate frosting which had hardened into a delicious fudge.

• i promised the child lunch at a restaurant after the visual part of book report was done. 

• i got yelled and screamed at about said book report for at least 2-3 hours. 

• we eventually ate lunch at mcdonalds as per child's request. 

• i made taco soup in the crockpot.

• the sun peeked out of the clouds for the first time in days. 

• i forcefully saved the entire book report from being ripped into shreds when an upper case "L" was written instead of a lower case "l". 

• in a show of solidarity against extreme perfectionism, i decide that i'm not using any more capital letters the rest of the day. 

• i took ellie to the neurologist for her check-up and we wait the longest we've ever had to wait there (with the 1/2 hour drive each way, the whole ordeal is almost 2 hours). 

• we came home and i ate a coconut popsicle. 

• child sits down to finish book report and kicks over dining room chairs and throws pencils all over the floor in frustration. 

• glen calls and says he's working late. 

• it takes 30+ minutes to pick up cami from cross country. 

• i have a melt-down at dinner and put myself in a time-out to eat in the bedroom with the door locked. 

• i didn't like the crockpot taco soup.

• sister comes over with some red mango pomegranate frozen yogurt for me.  thanks annalisa! 

• a friend comes to pick up cami for YW at someone's house.  thanks christine!

• sister takes spence and adam to scouts at the church. 

• really hoping that blogging about this day will help me to laugh at it all....someday. 

• wondering what i'm going to do now that the chocolate supply is running low. 

and right after posting this originally,  the power popped off and has been off for almost 2 hours now.  on the bright side, we have lots of flashlights and batteries in the house after all of our hurricane scares this fall.  and we live right by a starbucks with free internet. 

oh and adam gives just as good death stares by flashlight as he does in daylight.   


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