Hahahaha -- the title is a mixed message -- between being completely exhausted and the way I assume the Principal of Lily's school might have felt a little bit, this morning.
Yep, as suspected, I'm dragging. 4 days, 48 hours. Those are the 'in-office' hours.. I also was on-call those four nights (tonight, included) and I've said it before, I just never really sleep well when I'm on-call. I'm waiting for the phone to ring. I'm afraid I'm not going to hear it, though I have the volume set to the equivalent of the siren of a firetruck. Ok, maybe not that loud. But it's loud. And it would wake me up.
The worst part of working these hours? Arriving before the people you watch leave at the end of the night. The best part of these hours? I'm off ALL OF next week. I have Saturday through Friday off. My next day to work is Saturday, February 4th. Doesn't that just sound awesome? Totally did the "I'll see you in February!" to my supervisor. Lame, but true. :)
Another not-so-great part of working these hours: the cleanup crew has been sick / working / exhausted / confirmed strep positive / working / sick / etc.... so our house suffered this insane hurricane season for the past four days. Last night, I finally attacked the kitchen. The dishwasher was full of clean dishes, and Brandon wasn't well enough to stand vertically long enough to unload it, so it didn't get done. I just wasn't home, and by the time I was... I was EXHAUSTED. So I unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher and started that. That cleaned up most of the chaos. The rest just was relocate toys. *how do toys end up on our kitchen counters? And then the MOUNTAIN of school papers. I pulled Lincoln's backpack out and took out about 6 pages of beautiful art that he has done over (at least) the last four days. Checked his communication log -- which is how his teacher tells us the highlights of his days and any additional information. I just keep writing - "My kid is awesome", and leave it at that. (j/k. -- well, he is, but I don't write that in the book. I just assume she already knows that.) I started a couple loads of laundry last night... trying to put a dent in that, but it was barely noticeable that I touched it.
These are all things that will be properly addressed on my 7-day reprieve. Home made dinners every night... laundry caught up, house clean, toys put away, closets sorted and organized for matching outfits (yeah, I do like to do that. I might have a touch of OCD.) And I'm going to enjoy doing all of that. As stressful as parenting can be some days, I'd take being a stay at home mom, any day.
So, Lily's bus incident is pretty much resolved in my mind. The school apologized profusely -- which was nice, but also said they would start taking Lily's word more seriously -- she KNOWS where she's supposed to be. She will (and did) tell the bus driver if she is supposed to go to daycare and they're taking her home instead - or the other way around. My kid is smart. She made me so proud. When she did get home and was locked out. She didn't sit in the breezeway and cry, she went out and shoveled the deck and the back patio. Then she decided to start building a snowman... and made a HUGE base snowball. We're SO finishing that this weekend... and tie-dying it with our food coloring spray bottles. Gotta get it moved out to the front yard though, to proudly put it on display! :) I think we're going to get together with Brandon's little sister and our niece Mills Lane this weekend. Will be fun to see and play with them.
Monday, I'm sending the kids to daycare and will be helping my bro with some paperwork. He told me 'probably my only fault is forcing myself to fill out paperwork.' Yeah, Michael. :) It will be cool to hang out for a little bit.... then the rest of the day is Michelle time. Recharge. Rejuvenate. Not sure what I'll do, but something fun.
Have a great weekend ~
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